Vapour trail casts ghostly spectre above Altai just minutes after rocket carrying satellite blasts off into space.

Biggest and 'best' in Russia, it is more like a 'reserve' than a traditional zoo.

Tsarist inmates and Gulag victims were notoriously transported like cattle in packed carriages. Now it's different, as our pictures show.

Thrown in as a puppy, the mongrel grew too large to escape through a tiny hole through which local residents gave her food and water.

Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.

Today classes are closed, not because temperatures are plunging to minus 44C, but due to the ferocious icy winds.

Major engineering achievement will connect Russia’s largest region to Moscow by train for the first time.

International research team publish a detailed study into two cave lion cubs found in Yakutia