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

Enough joking. New NASA-Russian research is leading to concern that global warming is causing truly disturbing changes to the virgin forests of northern Russia.

Once I managed to make the Kremlin inhabitants to talk like human beings. But this time it was a wall far stronger than the Kremlin’s.

Startling new statistics show that some 23 villages in vast Krasnoyarsk region are populated only by men.

Communists want Soviet dictator immortalised forever in stone.

Colin Madsen, 25, enjoyed night-walking in Siberia but never came back after going out on Sunday.

Nikolay Petshak, 64, who swam from Russia to America, died in ‘accident’ in river where he carried the Olympic flame.

Karina became the symbol of resilience and hope when - aged only 4 - she survived 12 days in taiga of Yakutia.