The hungry feline terrorised a village snatching and eating guard dogs in Aleksey-Nikolskoye, even forcing scared children to miss classes.

Parents concerned about their children from huge wild cat  - or more than one - on the loose, with another terrorising Solontsovy village.

Environmentalists rescued the male cub after its mother apparently died in unexplained circumstances.

'Influential businessman' Evgeniy Romanov, 52, avoids jail, despite a host of other 'trophies'.

Cub was shot in the legs but there are fears the mother was also slain by poachers.

One of only 500 of the largest cats in the world left in the Siberian wild is gunned down in Kharbarovsk region.

Remarkable story of the rare big cat that sought out human help with a severe dental problem.

Alpha male big cat - believed to be at least 15 years old - ready to get back to saving his endangered species.

Hope for future of the rare species as census says there could be as many as 540 of them now living in the Far East.