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

Schools and kindergartens ordered to keep students indoors in Kirovsky.

Parents concerned about their children from huge wild cat  - or more than one - on the loose, with another terrorising Solontsovy village.

End the bottleneck on flights from Vladivostok, says Primorsky region governor.

Proof of recovery of endangered species after 'historic' sighting of Siberian tiger 2000 km west of its usual habitat.

Driver spots big cat at side of busy road, alerts police, and young male is tranquillised.

Rescue effort underway to provide emergency feeding sites for the helpless animals, with the wild boar population also in trouble.

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

In the West they say there's no such thing as a poor lawyer. Not so in Siberia where hundreds went on a day long strike to protest at low pay.

Police find gunman who shot the female big cat.