Spectacular ice show attracts mesmerised crowds of onlookers in Surgut as world’s 7th longest river defies spring.

Haunting image of the holy man - who exerted an extraordinary hold on the Russian royals - has never been seen before.

She and he were cruelly orphaned by poachers, and he was also shot and wounded but is now cured: how will they cope together roaming the wild?

It now seems likely in a matter of years; before this, the first bison since their extinction 10,000 years ago will be re-introduced.

Haunting images of this Railway to Nowhere, built by Gulag convicts in the cruellest of conditions on the cusp of the Arctic Circle.

Last survivor of prominent base for assault and reconnaissance planes deserted since collapse of the Soviet Union.