The animal got into a habit of visiting rubbish dumps on remote Novaya Zemlya, say researchers.

Wanderlust beast kept returning to main airport in Kamchatka, this week breaking in through a metal security fence.

Russian Himalayan bear does his version of Baloo in The Jungle Book.

This animal and its lost mother wandered some 700 km too far south 'because they couldn't go north' and got confused.

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

Video footage from Yakutia divides opinion: cruelty or necessary because predator was dangerous to people? Inquiry is underway.

Find included gallbladders of bears and musk deer.

Unnamed young mother in hospital after getting too close to caged animal.

Developed in Siberia, the new pepper spray will help ward off aggressive animals and help reduce attacks on people.

Shocking remains of nine beheaded brown bears slain and mutilated by poachers have been found by mushroom pickers in the Republic of Buryatia.