US Paralympic star on emotional journey back to her roots to meet the parents who gave her up for adoption.

Ivan and Lubov Leshchenko keep the animals in the backyard of their village of Dubovy Kliuch - Oak key - in the Far East of Russia.

Grandfather Egor Tarasov's 'miraculous' survival story of 42 days alone in the tundra with polar and brown bears, and wolves.

Cub 'Mur' joins the puppet cast of 'Good Night, Little Ones'.

Foreigners should be invited to pay $10,000 per animal in novel way to fund cull needed to save reindeer and horses.

Many Pacific islands are famed for their palm trees, but Sakhalin is facing some of the heaviest January blizzards in living memory.

Scientists from Novosibirsk-based Vector are working in Yakutia on a paleo-virus experiment.

Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'.

Sightings of 'primeval monsters' in Siberia's Lake Labynkyr were made before 'Nessie' was spotted in Scotland.

Former paratrooper conscript Timofey Menshikov wanted to escape modern life - and vodka - now faces reunion with family he left behind.