Monsters made from old car parts and scrap metal.

Scientists say numbers in Lake Baikal reaching critical levels and say new commercial businesses could safeguard their future.

Once banned as a result of over-fishing, now there are plans for one million sturgeon a year in Siberian river

New four times a week link between Beijing and Vladivostok.

But there are questions over privatisation of mining giant Alrosa, the world's largest producer.

Serious and immaculate, her haunting image is barely visible on tsarist-era Krasnoyarsk pictures, only spotted now, with new technology.

Mikhail Kokorich is a man who can, quite literally, say he is reaching for the stars.