Freak climate conditions sees an abnormally warm November. 

Anatoliy Trapko, 28, attempted to rape the girl, and killed her after he failed because of 'sexual problems', say police.

The rare Amur tigress was saved from starvation more than a year ago after she was orphaned when poachers killed her mother.

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

Trucks thunder across the ice, overtaking just like this was a normal motorway  - but it’s not.

Major engineering achievement will connect Russia’s largest region to Moscow by train for the first time.

New find at Zeleny Yar necropolis, which shows links to Persia, to be examined within weeks. 

Four children among those in intensive care, as locals undergo mass evacuation and quarantining, while reindeer herd decimated.