Tigre de Cristal under fire for 'abusing' rare big cat to promote gambling revolution.

A 175-room Marriott hotel is to open on a landmark site in Novosibirsk, while Irtuksk is set to get both a Kempinski and a Hyatt. 

Investigators also find the lover of the mass murderer's wife: Mikhail Popkov claims his jealously led to him slaughtering at least 81 women.

Residents of Krasnoyark take to boats to go to work, while an unusual July snowstorm hits Yakutia.

Police say he hanged himself but his grieving wife does not believe he would take his own life.

Dating back 40,000 years to the Denisovan species of early humans, new pictures show beauty and craftsmanship of prehistoric jewellery.

Startling new evidence of thawing of glacial ice in less than six decades, with process speeding in last ten years.

Some 800 workers face 'abyss' of poverty after being made redundant this week from the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill.

A new image of a Yeti - or Bigfoot - lurking behind trees is the 'clearest evidence' so far of the creature's existence.

One region has shot 58 ravaging brown bears this year because they intrude too close to settlements, destroying livestock.