21.  Tourists have already started booking the few available hotels in the Siberian cities of Chita, Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk, ITAR-Tass reported.

22.  Zyuganov, who according to polls has been outcampaigned by President Boris Yeltsin, touted his proposal upon arrival in a Siberian city on a campaign swing.

23.  Russia will soon ask Japan to join a major natural gas pipeline project linking Japan and a Siberian city, a newspaper said Saturday.