Arctic permafrost is degrading much faster than expected, warn scientists from the extreme north of Yakutia.

Hero staff of Blagoveschensk cardio centre had just cut open the patient’s chest when a major fire began.

Eight-year-old Kolymana lives in the world’s coldest zoo after losing her mother in the Arctic.

The racing predator was seen 60km south of Batagai, north-east from republic’s capital Yakutsk.

Visitors ‘risking their lives’ to witness spectacular formation of second cone on Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Kamchatka.

First in Russia initiative to help people with flights anxiety and to support local shelter.