Meet the woman who says: 'I will always be there for my maniac'.

Police checking claims, with one suspect insisting she has been 'framed', and put under police guard after death threats.

Shocking remains of nine beheaded brown bears slain and mutilated by poachers have been found by mushroom pickers in the Republic of Buryatia.

5,000 year old site used for fish processing but also rituals which remain a 'huge mystery' involving wolverines and ermine.

Born in the Siberian taiga, recluse Agafya Lykova is the sole survivor of the Lykov family who cut themselves off from civilisation in 1936.

The world's fluffiest feline get a first-in-the-world scientific zone where the endangered wildcats will be protected and studied.

Move defies hunters who want to keep shooting the black bear.

Animal rights organisation criticises 'savage' use of female body part as 'talisman', and other 'cures'.

Meet Syoma, the fearless, who plays cat and mouse....with a fox. 

A Moscow scientist is calling for a new scientific expedition to solve the mystery of a huge 'monster'.