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 ...

Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia and Russia's third most populous city, is becoming an important regional center in Navalny's quixotic campaign to run for president next year.

One of Russia's foremost political scientists has suggested that Russia needs three capital cities. One of his picks, Vladivostok, ties in with recent economic growth between Siberia and Asia.

YEKATERINBURG, Russia — Where is Siberia? You know the place: bears, vodka, oil, very big, awfully remote, once filled with political prisoners (and now home to some of Russia’s cutting-edge ...

Siberia – the Asian part of Russia, east of the Ural Mountains – is immense. It takes up three-quarters of Russia's land mass, the equivalent of the entire U.S. and India put together.