New Year's night

Dudinka marks beginning of its 350th year with amazing New Year light show.

Divers brave minus 45C to place a 'New Year Tree' beneath the ice on bed of the mighty Lena River.

The 25 metre tall tree in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk burns to ashes in minutes as fireworks usher in 2018 across Russia.

Russian president changes his midnight address to honour the bombing victims in Volgograd - and eliminate terrorists.

World's most famous hermit shows off her new wooden hut from billionaire Oleg Deripaska.

From 'fireworks' made from nothing more than hot water in minus 50C, to surfing in the Pacific, this is the New Year on our doorstep.

Klyuchevskaya Sopka's crater fills with lava amid new volcanic activity.

Cub 'Mur' joins the puppet cast of 'Good Night, Little Ones'.

'We're Russian Koreans,' comes the reply.

Team UDI reach grand final after winning dramatic sudden-death vote, and now have eyes on the £250,000 prize.