What's so funny on 1 April? Rescued polar bear seen 'laughing' with her cub in heartwarming pictures
Polar bear filmed running along road in Yakutia 460km south of its natural Arctic habitat
Emergency officials plead with tourists to stop rush to take selfies at Eurasia’s highest active volcano
Beautiful and mysterious: but was Lake Cheko formed from the exploding Tunguska meteorite?
Depressed? Siberian scientists have figured out the gene combinations to blame
New weird landforms appear due to thawing permafrost on Yamal peninsula
Stinking poisoned water flows towards Siberia from mining city Ridder in Kazakhstan
Forests on fire: 'no attempt will be made to extinguish 219 million hectares of burning trees'
Polar bear slaughtered for 50 litres of gasoline
Vice Premier tours facility where new rockets will be built
Altai Mountains could be sitting on gold bonanza
China forges ahead with building bridge to join Russian Far East
Karina became the symbol of resilience and hope when - aged only 4 - she survived 12 days in taiga of Yakutia.
Lena Pillars, a World Heritage Site, hit by the rampant flames, as calls grow for greater efforts to tackle infernos.
Mystery how the bronze dancer, his arms raised in an ecstatic trance, reached modern-day Novosibirsk region.
Luna the panther was rescued from a travelling zoo when its mother refused to feed the cub.
Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.
Soul-stirring images of eruption on the Klyuchevskaya Sopka caught by extreme travellers at altitude of 2,850 metres (9,350 ft).