Cub was shot in the legs but there are fears the mother was also slain by poachers.
In beach resort of Listvyanka alone, 98 contaminated streams are disgorging sewage and chemical waste into the pristine waters of the world's oldest lake.
Alexei Gorulenko confessed to keeping himself alive by eating human flesh, but denied killing Olga Kurochkina's husband.
Speculation that reclusive dictator's debut foreign trip will see him visit Khabarovsk in September.
Oleg Fedyura drowned on way to waterlogged district when his vehicle was swept away while crossing river.
New technology to be tested on heating stations in eastern Russia.
Unearthed on the edge of the Arctic, she is the only woman so far found in an otherwise all-male necropolis, buried in a cocoon of copper and fur.