Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.

Cloning hope after autopsy of 'pet' frozen in permafrost since pre-historic times.

New estimate puts number at 80, almost double some recent figures.

The idea of the Immortal Regiment was born in Tomsk, Siberia three years ago, and has now spread throughout Russia and abroad.

Across the Russian polar regions, these eye-catching pictures show how thawing soil leads to territories being washed away.

The German car-maker has picked out Siberia as a key area for growth.

Findings pave the way for a 1.2 million square kilometre claim to the UN on hydrocarbon drilling rights.

Greenpeace is demanding the Russian government blocks a major Gazprom link to Shanghai across one of Siberia's most sacred wildernesses.

What I wasn't expecting was just how beautiful everything looked under the sparkling white blanket of snow.

Thousands of rock paintings make remote area the world’s best place to see 5,000 year old alfresco art.