As he turned 94 this month, a museum opened in his home village of Kurya, Altai.

Cruel joke can turn deadly for predator now too visible to both prey and poachers.

Permafrost remains of long-gone woolly rhinos, mammoths and cave lions bring intriguing scientific breakthrough.

Six infernos ravaging the region's nature have been extinguished in the past 24 hours, it is reported.

No danger of radiation in the Russian Far East from blaze caused by welding accident, insist experts.

Emergencies minister Vladimir Puchkov vows: 'We will defend both the city and the factories'.

Some 800 workers face 'abyss' of poverty after being made redundant this week from the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill.

Company’s bulldozer was in such rush to dismantle pipes after being filmed by ecologists that it crashed a police car.