Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is to lead discussion of how to put Siberia on the world map of growth at the annual forum.

Foreigners should be invited to pay $10,000 per animal in novel way to fund cull needed to save reindeer and horses.

Unique pictures taken this month show the Sailugem bear, proving both that this species was not mythical - and has survived - in the Altai Mountains.

A theme of modernisation was behind the prime minister's swing through Siberia this week.

Real-life adventurers to a 'professional blonde' queue to participate in the ultimate brutal television reality contest, where 'rape and murder' are not banned.

The deposit and surrounding area were named Royal Salt Shaker by Peter the Great.

Russia could get a major boost from an influx of Chinese visitors.

Yury Movshin 'driving at 130 kph on highway with 80 kph limit'.