Tomsk State University scientists' invention can be deployed by police and security services in terrorist situations, also for rescues.

Petroglyphs some 7,000 years older than earlier thought with ancients artists using same style in Siberia and Mongolia.

Rare historic pictures show Russia's last tsar as the first builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway 125 years ago this month.

Elephants and tigers entertain public in cities along staggering 16,000km (9,950 mile) route.

Will no-one save Gustav Backmann’s unique Arctic fish freezer designed to maintain a temperature of between -12C to -14C all year round?

Exports overseas increase to highest levels in seven years but Russia still slips behind rivals as Asia turns to other countries for wood.

His height of 215 cm - or 7ft - was too much for low cost airline Pobeda flying from Novy Urengoy to Moscow.

'Influential businessman' Evgeniy Romanov, 52, avoids jail, despite a host of other 'trophies'.