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.

No victims from the blaze at remote location in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous region.

The luxurious new 175-room Marriott is changing the face of the city in readiness for a 2014 opening. 

Showing for party founded by Vladimir Putin mirrors the rest of Russia, but ultranationalist Liberal Democrats nudge Communists to third place.

A century after their were slain, new hopes of finding the remains of missing royal, who ‘rejected’ his brother Nikolai II’s throne.

An expedition to one of Eurasia's northernmost caves unlocks secrets that might help explain the extinction of mammoths.

Cabin attendant Irina Olaru, 22, planned to wed when she was cruelly killed on doomed in Sinai.