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

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 ...

As the icebox of the Northern Hemisphere, Russia’s Siberia is notorious for its frigid weather. But the cold so far this December — the most severe in decades in some areas — is extreme even ...

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 ...

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

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 year ago, Natalia’s life was upended by war. With her family, she fled the fighting in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Mariupol and crossed into Russia.

A self-styled mystic Vissarion and two aides were sentenced to prison for using psychological pressure to extract money and ...

A Russian Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber aircraft crashed in Siberia, killing the pilot, the Russian Defense ... She has an M.A. in Newspaper Journalism at City, University of London, and a B.A ...

The 75th anniversary of the large hydroelectric power station commissioned by Stalin, still the second largest in Russia, was celebrated. Since the 18th century, Orthodox missionaries had started ...

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.