Emergencies minister Vladimir Puchkov vows: 'We will defend both the city and the factories'.

Many Pacific islands are famed for their palm trees, but Sakhalin is facing some of the heaviest January blizzards in living memory.

Few businessmen know Russia as well as Vadim Dymov, but he has a special affection for Siberia - and Siberians.

Plans to remove barbed wire from migration route would allow safe passage and help boost numbers of tigers and leopards.

Thermometers go above zero in places where the winter should be 20 or 30 degrees colder.

Flights from east of Russian resumed for the first time since last year's earthquake and tsunami which led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Reclusive state bordering Russian Far East claims to have 'joined the ranks of advanced nuclear states'.

Unsafe to walk before daylight in Aleksey-Nikolskoye village due to fears the world’s largest feline predator may attack.

Jessica is going to Siberia to see her biological mother Natalia, 38, and father Oleg, 37.