Irkutsk officials say they have identified over 8,000 illegal miners. Hiding places include forests, paper mills, and petrol ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Russian Tu-22M3 bomber crashed in Irkutsk Oblast of Siberia due to a malfunction, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Aug. 15.

The death toll from dozens of people drinking bath lotion rose to 74, Russian authorities said on December 23, as police said they had seized more than 10,000 bottles of the berry-scented lotion in a ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. IRKUTSK, Russia — Today, this frigid city of just over half a million in eastern Siberia is best known for being a ...

Mobilized soldiers from Russia’s Irkutsk region recorded a video appeal to Vladimir Putin, asking him to “deal with lawless and criminal orders from command.” The news outlet Lyudi Baikala published ...

Igor Kobzev, the governor of the Irkutsk Oblast, said that a fighter jet crashed into a two-storey building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk; two pilots have perished, but there are no victims among ...