Pedal power challenge as the Red Bull Trans-Siberian Extreme ultra-stage bicycle race heads from Moscow to Vladivostok.

The bears have become a major hazard on a highway linking the oil-rich cities of Khanty-Mansiysk to Tyumen.

Virtual reality diagnosis using a new mathematical model linked to balance can detect first signs of these disorders, it is claimed. 

Bugapocalypse swarms are attacking towns and cities from Novosibirsk to Barnaul.

Intriguing finds from archeological excavations in old garrison town of Tara, a key historic staging post to the east.

Quality of life in booming oil capital Tyumen is better than that in Moscow or St Petersburg, says financial survey.

Support for the French people after the brutal killings of innocent people.

New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.

The beaches here are thronged with sun-seekers, children paddle in the warm waters — even the babushki are relaxed.