From frost-resistant woolly pigs to sheep that look like goats and horses that love playing the snow, there are lots of surprises across the taiga.

Discovery of blood in creature frozen for 43,000 years is seen as major breakthrough by international team.

Roads blocked, planes diverted due to low visibility, schools shut, people advised to stay home.

Seasonal greetings to all parts of the world marking Christmas Day on 25 December, even though we have to wait a little longer!

Through his extraordinary photographs, Sergey Anisimov has done more than most to show real Siberia to the world.

After US warnings about threat of ISIL, Da'esh and al-Qa'ida attacks around Christmas, senator Franz Klintsevich urges tourists to head east.

Retired teacher Angela Vorobyova braves monsoons and dances a tango to reach peak - and honour an 80 year old promise.

Award-winning director and screenwriter Janusz Zaorski says members of his own family were sent into exile in the east of Russia during the war years.

Andrey Solovyev keeps a lonely all-winter vigil in Yakutia in search of the legendary Labynkyr Devil.