Pet saves helpless child's life acting as surrogate parent in temperatures averaging minus 12C.
Study of ancient canine graves shows the important place of the animals in lives of prehistoric people.
Stray dog leads his friend around the forest tracks near Surgut.
A plan has been drafted to catch and kill 2,200 stray dogs in Gorno-Altaisk, the capital of the Altai Republic.
Intriguing new research of burial sites close to Lake Baikal has re-written our understanding of the human relationship with dogs.
Jasmine is credited with saving the lives of many dozens of people during a ten year police career.
Calls for action against homeless dogs provokes backlash from animal rights campaigners.
Patrol was checking for people stranded on Lake Kenon in suburbs of Chita - and found the marooned animal.
Big cat had preyed on domestic dogs in Russia and China, but will now be mated with older tigress Prima in Rostov.
Siberian mammoth graveyards provoke a new theory on why the creatures were wiped out, and how dogs were domesticated.