Vet clinics inundated with cases of cats and dogs suffering health problems and rashes in 'Dirty 30' Siberian city.
Many dozens of skeletons, bones and coffins from old graveyard found as water level lowers.
2,400 year old Ust-Taseyevsky idol 'underwent racial realignment early in Middle Ages', losing his European looks.
Petroglyphs some 7,000 years older than earlier thought with ancients artists using same style in Siberia and Mongolia.
Scientists say numbers in Lake Baikal reaching critical levels and say new commercial businesses could safeguard their future.
Radiation, chemical and biological forces tackle two million tonnes of toxic chemical waste with huge mercury stockpile and oil poisons.
More than ten new oil deposits are discovered in Krasnoyarsk region, one of them of major significance.
Wildfires rage around Lake Baikal with 5,000-plus emergency workers deployed.
The Paleolithic beauty carved in woolly mammoth tusk has similarities to those uncovered in Siberia, but was found thousands of kilometres away.
Vostochny Cosmodrome will 'improve life in the Far East and upgrade its industrial base'.