Remarkable images show a test tube blood sample from a female of the long-extinct species. 

Meet Minsalim Nimergazeev, orphan turned master craftsman from historic Tobolsk.

As Western children salute Santa's Rudolph, here in the Sakha Republic the antlered animals are in peril from ravenous predators.

Likely from the Okunev culture, might this mysterious ancient figurine with the angry face be a children's 'rattle', to ward off evil spirits? 

Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'.

A powerful backlash has hit new laws due to be speeded through parliament on 'modernising' the country's science.

'Safe, order, jobs, proper business practice. Why? Not because of three or four articles in London newspapers'.

54 reported missing after seven rescued in high seas with strong winds.

No bikini ban here as Russian contests reject the cover-up in the rest of the world.