Leading expert assesses the risk of 'waking up' this deadly disease currently eradicated, and warns that rising Russian levels of HIV brings a far greater risk.
Businessman Vladislav Doronin - former partner of model Naomi Campbell - to deliver the award.
A ten year old boy was ambushed by wild animals close to Lake Yessey in Krasnoyarsk region.
Swift response by the Russian president to Canada's move to claim seabed under the North Pole and surrounding waters.
Troops and government ministries checked 'for fulfilling tasks under wartime conditions'.
Marooned men went for up to 3 weeks without food on island in Laptev Sea in temperatures of minus 15C.
The prospects of a cloned mammoth is nearer after the sensational discovery of 'living cells' from the ancient creatures in northern Siberia.
Ecology groups warn that the extent of fires in forests and taiga has been misreported by up to 159 times compared with satellite evidence of the grim facts.
More than 20 calves born although park keepers say there could be more.