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

A 1,159 metre volcano named after one of Russia's most fearsome tsars erupted early Thursday for the first time in 23 years.

Gelandewagen parade videos leads to 'career change' as Russia demands highest standards from secret servicemen.

Preserved by ice, the 25 year old ancient woman covered in tattoos used cannabis to cope with her ravaging illness.

Samples taken from cubs frozen in permafrost for at least 12,000 years.

Family find her again after 9 years, now aged 25, some 4,000 km from home, but mother killed herself thinking her daughter was dead.

The child victims were aged between 18 months and seven years and perished in a wooden one-storey house in Yelovoye village in Krasnoyarsk region.

Separately, 18 frozen bear paws hidden in coal cargo train nabbed by customs.

'Spy plane' was monitoring Siberia under Open Skies treaty aimed at reducing tension after Cold War.

Cloning hope after autopsy of 'pet' frozen in permafrost since pre-historic times.