A daily bucket of icy water poured over the head 'helps block winter illnesses, and makes children optimistic'.
Now standing almost two metres tall, zoo’s new arrival is beginning to win her battle for survival.
Remains of extinct 'Steppe Mammoth' could bring new leap in understanding of 200,000 year old creatures.
New legislation in Latvia is poised to offer citizenship in the European Union country to the children and grandchildren of its exiles forcibly sent to Siberia.
Police launch investigation as woman guard injured and brother-in-law dead but no-one knows who fired the first shots in jail stand-off.
The remarkable annual Beringia dog sled race will go through some of the planet's remotest and most challenging territory in Kamchatka.
The Ob was once teeming with sturgeon, but more recently the 'Tsar Fish' has become an endangered species in the mighty river.
Spaso-Zashiverskaya has survived wars, permafrost, and a smallpox outbreak that wiped out its congregation.