Toy was due to travel to Thailand with its owner, but is now living in luxury thanks to kind staff at Yekaterinburg airport.

Chained to a tree and bitten, five-year-old Masha is used as bait to hone skills in a competition to find the best hunter.

Vadim Klabukov, 23, paid with his life after flouting safety rules when he went to retrieve lost backpack in South Kamchatka nature reserve.

Footage of orphaned cub leads to arrests.

Macabre cargo including 37 elk lips impounded after FSB tip-off. CAUTION: STRONG IMAGES

The inquisitive baby took a first walk at Orto Doidu zoo in Yakutsk aged three and a half months.

Mother-of-three speaks for the first time about horror incident in woods and declares: 'Life is beautiful'

Up to 500 mother bears a year give birth on remote Wrangel island, also the last place to see woolly mammoths.

Siberian zoo’s nine-year-old Pamir can dance, perform tricks with a wooden stick and now even crawl through tires.