Possible route could see 400km/hour bullet train pass through heart of Siberia and Altai region with stops in major cities.
New 'plug-in' cars coping well with harsh climate and landscape and were even recharged overnight in remote taiga at -33C.
Geysers, active volcanoes, thermal lakes, mountains, Pleistocene glaciers, cascading rivers... and a lot of bears!
Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.
In 2012, the residents of Tumul all stopped drinking vodka and other intoxicating drinks as the village went dry...
Sardana Avksentyeva swept to power as mayor of Russia’s diamond capital in September.