Alex Croft looks at how Sergei Torop, also known as Vissarion, ended up in jail after he was accused of harming his followers ...

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after ...

Siberia gets way more news coverage because it’s huge, comprising 74 per cent of Russia’s land mass, according to Olga Guryevskikh, who teaches geography at the Ural State Pedagogical University.

Siberia offers a tantalizing prize with fewer immediate risks. Its vast reserves of oil, gas, gold, diamonds, rare earth ...

In the 1920s a great city in Siberia that was to be called "Evangelsk" was envisioned by Ivan Prokhanov. Prokhanov was an Evangelical Christan leader who founded the All-Russian Union of ...

The southwest Russian city of Orenburg, near the Kazakh border, was bracing for its worst flooding in decades, while to the north, the entire region of Tyumen in western Siberia was put under a ...

A Russian newspaper publisher has been convicted by a court in Siberia and sentenced to eight years in prison after his paper reported on Russia’s attacks on civilians in Ukraine. Local media ...

Siberia makes up a whopping 75% of Russia’s total land area, ... Most of the 60,000 plus people in Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia, ...

Vissarion, who has proclaimed himself a new Christ, conducts a service during the "Holiday of Good Fruit" feast in a village southeast of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, August 18, 2010.

Russia hands an 8-year prison ... Local media and rights activists say the court in the city of Gorno-Altaysk convicted Sergei Mikhailov, a prominent journalist in the Siberian region of Altai ...

A Russian newspaper publisher has been convicted by a court in Siberia and sentenced to eight years in prison after his paper reported on Russia's attacks on civilians in Ukraine.