'We're Russian Koreans,' comes the reply.

Iturup gets connected, opening up the stunning scenery of the Kuril Islands to tourism.

She and he were cruelly orphaned by poachers, and he was also shot and wounded but is now cured: how will they cope together roaming the wild?

Schools and kindergartens ordered to keep students indoors in Kirovsky.

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

Students were shown the dead beast in latest case of the hungry wild animals encroaching villages.

Nicknamed Forrest Gump, he completes a 9,905 kilometre odyssey braving temperatures as low as minus 48C on his 18 month adventure.

Women run in bridal outfits to encourage people to adopt neglected animals.

The 25 metre tall tree in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk burns to ashes in minutes as fireworks usher in 2018 across Russia.

Up to 500 mother bears a year give birth on remote Wrangel island, also the last place to see woolly mammoths.