Supplies to EU maintained despite mega-blast with flames 200 metres in the sky, and heat felt 1km from fireball.
Around 400 delegates are expected including representatives of 41 ethnic minorities representing around a quarter of a million people.
Findings pave the way for a 1.2 million square kilometre claim to the UN on hydrocarbon drilling rights.
High levels of ‘fire ice’ trapped in permafrost may turn Russia into a global leader of new gas sources.
Russia is poised to present the United Nations with the scientific arguments for extending the continental shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Nature makes its own collection of snowballs on the Arctic shore of the Gulf of Ob.
Arctic permafrost is degrading much faster than expected, warn scientists from the extreme north of Yakutia.
The marine mammals were washed ashore on an 800 kilometre stretch of the region's Arctic coast.
Ancient items of jewellery found by archeologists on Taymyr peninsula are stone labrets which were inserted into the face below the bottom lip.
Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.