Agafya Lykova rejects leaving her remote house even though debris from coming rocket launch could fall dangerously close.

Its residents will live in a vast man-made 'igloo' to protect them from polar temperatures and some of the most biting winds on the planet.

Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.

Cub 'Mur' joins the puppet cast of 'Good Night, Little Ones'.

Vlada Dzyuba, 14, was dreaming of catwalk stardom, but now her parents 'cannot afford to fly her body home' to bury her.

Now standing almost two metres tall, zoo’s new arrival is beginning to win her battle for survival.

Across the Russian polar regions, these eye-catching pictures show how thawing soil leads to territories being washed away.

Grapes for first 10,000 bottles of wine now being harvested in Altai vineyards.