The German car-maker has picked out Siberia as a key area for growth.
What I wasn't expecting was just how beautiful everything looked under the sparkling white blanket of snow.
Preliminary investigations suggest one of the drivers fell asleep before head-on smash.
Peking to Paris - 'the longest and toughest challenge anyone can drive in a vintage or classic car'.
In distant times, parts of California and Hawaii were administered from the city of Irkutsk.
Experts and fashion gurus say our women have lower bottoms than others - because of the cold.
Gas bubbles from waters filling crater hole on Yamal peninsula two months after volcanic-style explosion in thawing permafrost.
Siberia's hotel revolution is growing apace with work underway on a top of the range property.
Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.
Special train - the Eurasian Star - will reopen exotic and historic trail linking China, Mogolia and Russia.