Bratsk

Residents complain of 'severe carbon monoxide poisoning' as satellite images show blanket of smoke across eastern Siberia.

Five patients and a doctor were held hostage at gunpoint by a 51 year old man who forced his way into a Bratsk hospital armed with a sawn-off hunting rifle.

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.

The authorities in Bratsk have received more than 60 calls from residents complaining of bears on the streets and close to houses.

Yan - 'the only friend in my life' - was stolen in February, prompting extraordinary search by Vladimir Davydov, 77.

Valery Malkov from Bratsk, Irkutsk region, was wearing only a T-shirt, shorts and slippers.

Dozens of volunteers join search to find his loveable, trusting German Shepherd kidnapped by dog-snatchers.

State of emergency in Irkutsk region as President Vladimir Putin flies in amid carnage from heavy rain - with ‘worse to come’.

Oilmen forced to stop work after being trapped in 'horseshoe' of burning taiga, as pall of smoke smothers Irkutsk region where state of emergency imposed.