Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one.
Major campaign saves tens of thousands of birds from 'decimation' as they migrate to Africa.
Grapes for first 10,000 bottles of wine now being harvested in Altai vineyards.
Communists want Soviet dictator immortalised forever in stone.
'When I came to Yergaki National Park I was blown away by the beauty of the place. It was so stunning it felt unreal'.
Once I managed to make the Kremlin inhabitants to talk like human beings. But this time it was a wall far stronger than the Kremlin’s.
Whisky proves popular in the land of vodka.
Mysterious figure refuses lifts or help as she trudges her way ‘to Kamchatka’.