Vladimir Putin surprises a female Siberian student with flowers on her 23rd birthday but also comes face to face with a woolly mammoth.

In a sign of the times, children are taught 'to love the motherland' after the return of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia.

Total of 110,000 tonnes sent to Europe across the new Northern Sea Route.

New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.

Permafrost remains of long-gone woolly rhinos, mammoths and cave lions bring intriguing scientific breakthrough.

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

Elders in Altai Mountains vote to reinter mummy of ancient woman 'to stop her anger which causes floods and earthquakes'.

The ancient mummy of a mysterious young woman, known as the Ukok Princess, is finally returning home to the Altai Republic this month.