More than 130billion roubles invested in special gambling zone to lure wealthy Asian tourists to Russia, complete with its own beach, marina and ski area.
Smiling five-year-old saved by her dog too shy to speak about how she survived in wild infested with bears and wolves.
Suspect Evgeny Bukharin, 40, married father-of-two, detained by police in Kemerovo region.
First pictures of remains at least 10,000 years old found in Siberia's Sakha Republic.
Samples taken from cubs frozen in permafrost for at least 12,000 years.
A family was rescued by helicopter after chopping birch trees and using them to spell 'SOS' when they were ringed by blazing wildfires.
Police launch probe into slaughter of protected two year old animal 'riddled with bullets'.