New Year

Divers brave minus 45C to place a 'New Year Tree' beneath the ice on bed of the mighty Lena River.

Dudinka marks beginning of its 350th year with amazing New Year light show.

Minister of Energy Alexander Novak is proposing to slash the mineral extraction tax on new developments for quarter of a century.

The 25 metre tall tree in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk burns to ashes in minutes as fireworks usher in 2018 across Russia.

More than five dozen suffer acute intestinal problems from the event at Tyoshchin Yazyk tourist resort in Russia's Sakha Republic.

Russian president changes his midnight address to honour the bombing victims in Volgograd - and eliminate terrorists.

As the world prepares to herald in the arrival of 2015, we look back at the winter celebrations of the Soviet yesteryear.

Russian tourists among the top ten arrivals to Thailand - and the top spenders after the Chinese

The Russian national carrier is examining a scheme to base a new air operator on its assets Vladivostok Avia and Sakhalin-based SAT Airlines.