The authorities in Bratsk have received more than 60 calls from residents complaining of bears on the streets and close to houses.

Modest villager Yakov Novichenko who changed history is honoured by Pyongyang on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Man kills his girlfriend in supposed murder-suicide pact because they could not bear to be apart then fails to take his own life.

Shocking puce water as nearby nickel processing plant says cause is decades of contamination in Soviet times which company is working to overcome.

The new low fare routes subsidised by the government will help Siberians from Norilsk to Khabarovsk.

New 'plug-in' cars coping well with harsh climate and landscape and were even recharged overnight in remote taiga at -33C.

The development is in an area of the world that claims to have one of the highest number of sightings of a legendary creature also known as Bigfoot.