Japanese companies consider investment in railway extension via islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaido.

The rare predator learns to hunt in the rehabilitation centre, and the first lessons are hard.

Yakutia Airlines boosts flights from Alaska to some of the world's greatest, yet most unexplored holiday destinations.

Move defies hunters who want to keep shooting the black bear.

Iturup gets connected, opening up the stunning scenery of the Kuril Islands to tourism.

Real-life adventurers to a 'professional blonde' queue to participate in the ultimate brutal television reality contest, where 'rape and murder' are not banned.

Petition fails to ban kids' championship as an event involving sex abuse or encouraging 'child striptease'.

At least eight black bears killed in terrorised Luchegorsk as starving wild animals roam streets and go on the attack. 

The senior politician called for a change of identity for the vast eastern third of Russia, as the country angles itself towards Asia.

Rare historic pictures show Russia's last tsar as the first builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway 125 years ago this month.