Russia's new education minister wants to reinstate Soviet-era ...

A 16-year-old boy from Siberia narrowly escaped death after he swung from a balcony 23 flights high and fell down, all while trying to impress a girl. The teenager is now in intensive care with his life under no immediate threat. Doctors say he ...

MUNICH — Planet Earth is growing greener. In Canada and the Russian hinterland of Siberia, coniferous forests crowd the tundra, where previously one could find only grass and shrub. In the U.S., beech forests have spread in the country's north.

Siberia: A Russian toddler who went missing in the Siberian taiga was found three days later, alive and healthy, Russian media and the emergencies ministry reported. Three-year-old Tserin disappeared from his home in a remote village in Tyva ...

MOSCOW — The Russian Emergencies Ministry says a three-year-old boy who spent 72 hours in a Siberian forest after getting lost has been rescued. The Emergencies Ministry said the boy from the village Khut in the Tuva region in southern Siberia ...

Smoke from Russian wildfires seen by the Suomi NPP satellite on September 18th, 2016. Image: NOAA/NASA As enormous wildfires in Canada and the United States make headlines on the daily, Siberia has been burning ferociously all summer, and nobody ...

Pro-Stalin activists in Siberia plan to erect a bust of notorious Soviet security chief Lavrenty Beria next to a recently unveiled bust of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Denis Khanzhin, the chairman of the Russian Spirit group in the city of Surgut, ...

This article first appeared on the Wilson Center site. Novosibirsk—Russia's third largest city and the unofficial capital of Siberia—rarely makes international news. Apart from stories about Akademgorodok , a Soviet-built science city, ...

A boy of three has been rescued after surviving alone for 72 hours in forest full of bears and wolves. Tserin Dopchut lived off a small bar of chocolate he had in his pocket when he wandered into the woodland in Russia's remote Siberia. He slept on ...

A fake-CIA-secrets plot by two men in Siberia who tried to sell made-up military information to American intelligence for cash was foiled by Russia's security service, but only after the U.S. spy agency "took the bait." The would-be spies from ...