Leading expert assesses the risk of 'waking up' this deadly disease currently eradicated, and warns that rising Russian levels of HIV brings a far greater risk.
Latest addition to English peasant farmer Michael Ware's family enjoys her first Russian winter.
Pictured: the gleaming riches no-one was meant to see belonging to an ancient nomad potentate, and his queen...or was she his concubine?
The footballer-turned-actor is this week back in Russia on a film project, as the fall out from his last visit to the country is making headlines around the world.
Your guide is the Chairman of the Tuva Republic's government, Sholban Kara-Ool.
Place your bets as Russia takes on Macau and Las Vegas to woo Pacific gamblers.
2,400 year old Ust-Taseyevsky idol 'underwent racial realignment early in Middle Ages', losing his European looks.
Dating back 40,000 years to the Denisovan species of early humans, new pictures show beauty and craftsmanship of prehistoric jewellery.
Pictures show child from Middle Ages as he is unwrapped after his remains were 'accidentally preserved' close to Arctic.