Incident at Khabarovsk Airport leads to passengers bound for Moscow being evacuated from plane.

Flight on Wednesday aborted two and a half minutes before blast-off as President Vladimir Putin watched at spaceport.

Kondyor Massif's breathtaking shape was formed 'either by volcanic activity or an impact meteorite'....Or was it?

Ten fishermen were plucked to safety after their vessel - Chance-101 - sank 31 miles east of  Svetlaya village, in Primorye region in the Russian Far East.

But how did they get to landlocked Kurgan region, 2,400 kilometres from the nearest ocean?

Findings pave the way for a 1.2 million square kilometre claim to the UN on hydrocarbon drilling rights.

Archaeologists intrigued by discovery of Bronze Age razor blade in Novosibirsk region.

Barnaul angler Ivan Drachev, 33, caught more than he bargained for when he noticed an animal fallen through the ice.