Photographers win praise for work which had them in trouble with the Communist Party and KGB.

For past year devoted Masha has been waiting in a hospital for the beloved owner who will never return.

Her fun blog from 'cool and exciting' Yakutsk has tips on making the most of the extreme cold.

He is believed to be 20, born in the wild, never went to school, received no vaccinations, and was cut off from civilisation.

Fires have wreaked havoc this summer with Yakutia and the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous the latest to be hard hit.

All the strongest grandmasters of the world are battling for supremacy under a knock out system.

Oleg Rezanov says he was in ‘trance’ and unable to breathe but walked away - shaking - in -32C Yakutsk cold.

Dating back 40,000 years to the Denisovan species of early humans, new pictures show beauty and craftsmanship of prehistoric jewellery.

The modernised MiG-31BM fighter interceptor has been shown in action in Siberia after deployment at the Kansk Air Base in Krasnoyarsk region.

Pictured: the gleaming riches no-one was meant to see belonging to an ancient nomad potentate, and his queen...or was she his concubine?