Daring criminals intended to walk across frozen lake to take skins and ‘potency cures’ into China.

Yevgeny Savostyanov fears loss of land after becoming too dependent on Beijing.

Man, 19, shot dead by police after knifing and axing seven people in Siberia's oil capital.

FSB federal security agents part of search team as government cracks down on corruption and abuse of power within senior ranks.

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.

Four bodies found, search underway for the other six on board a capsized patrol boat in poor weather.

US, British, German and Australians not permitted ashore in the remote Bay of Providence.

Panning to be legalised in former GULAG region in bid to crackdown on black market.

A Krasnoyarsk man faces up to four years jail for allegedly blocking President Vladimir Putin's website for one hour.

The cubs of the world’s largest big cat seen in Russian Far East are too young to survive on their own.