Unique crouched burials for this period - comprising seriously ill quartet - presents archeologists with a puzzle.

For hundreds of years visitors to this Arctic outpost have been frightened by terrifying totems and human sacrifices. 

Living bacteria found in permafrost - '3.5 million years old' - is 'scientific sensation' which allows 'mice grannies' to reproduce.

Police are investigating the sudden death of Viktoria Lygdenova, 22, in Ulan-Ude, in the Republic of Buryatia.

Her partner survived but Russian Railways warn people to take more care close to busy railroads.

Truck rammed train from Black Sea to Nizhnevartovsk full of holidaymakers returning from Sochi.

Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk suffering smoke pollution and infernos rage in forests after hot, dry weather.