Driver spots big cat at side of busy road, alerts police, and young male is tranquillised.
The poaching, trade, transportation and possession of endangered animals is to be made a criminal offence in Russia.
The Amur cubs were specially trained to cope after being raised in Zhelundinsky Nature Reserve.
Brave Timur moved into the Siberian tiger's cage, and took over his bed.
Parents concerned about their children from huge wild cat - or more than one - on the loose, with another terrorising Solontsovy village.
For the first time, camera trap recorded 4 cubs at once in their usual life, full of research, games and serene rest.
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'.
A man has been jailed for gunning down a protected Siberian tiger in the Far Eastern Russian region of Primoye.
Big cat Tikhon refused to be scared away by warning shots as veteran alpha male makes clear he wants to come in from the wild.