In distant times, parts of California and Hawaii were administered from the city of Irkutsk.

The new low fare routes subsidised by the government will help Siberians from Norilsk to Khabarovsk.

Techno-capital Tomsk goes global to advertise for students.

The distance between capital city Moscow and key Siberian cities could shrink in plan envisaged by the Kremlin leader.

May Day saw around 3,000 'monstrators' out on the streets of Novosibirsk, the latest gathering of a trend that began in 2004.

Vladimir Putin surprises a female Siberian student with flowers on her 23rd birthday but also comes face to face with a woolly mammoth.

In case of any doubts, we mean the twitching variety, which are now back to Siberia, resting before their next extraordinary journey. 

Anna Tereshkova unveils her ambitious plans to break old taboos and make Novosibirsk a capital of modern art. 

A powerful backlash has hit new laws due to be speeded through parliament on 'modernising' the country's science.