The third city would be the capital of Siberia and would constitute a new economic capital for Russia. Vladivostok is about as far south as you can get in Siberia, and it’s really not near the ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Temperatures in parts of Siberia plummeted to minus 56 degrees ... In the region's capital, Yakutsk, which lies some 5,000 km (3,100 miles) east of Moscow, the ...