With all Siberia's seven time zone now below zero, this theory seems mad.

Possible route could see 400km/hour bullet train pass through heart of Siberia and Altai region with stops in major cities.

The mayor of Vladivostok is fed up with Moscow being asleep when he needs key decisions to be made.

Its residents will live in a vast man-made 'igloo' to protect them from polar temperatures and some of the most biting winds on the planet.

Vet clinics inundated with cases of cats and dogs suffering health problems and rashes in 'Dirty 30' Siberian city.

33 hour journey between the capitals could be in place by 2020.

New legislation in Latvia is poised to offer citizenship in the European Union country to the children and grandchildren of its exiles forcibly sent to Siberia.

Some 35 Russian higher educational institutions are attending the annual Chinese showcase of international universities.