Outspoken account of 'chaos and incompetence' after helicopter went down in Arctic, with 12 dead and 13 injured.
A man tailed by two hungry wolves had a miraculous escape after four days lost on foot in Russia's coldest region.
Marooned men went for up to 3 weeks without food on island in Laptev Sea in temperatures of minus 15C.
Hermit Agafya Lykova to be sent urgent supplies this week to help her get through winter.
The French-built 'Vladivostok' is at the centre of a dispute over sanctions.
Helicopter crash kills three including leader of expedition to find schooner lost in infamous 1914 tragedy.
A family was rescued by helicopter after chopping birch trees and using them to spell 'SOS' when they were ringed by blazing wildfires.
Not only did they pull the hefty 600-kilogram pregnant cow out of an ice hole, but they massaged her frozen limbs back to life.
Aged 68, she has never seen a town - and refused a helicopter ride to hospital.
The first evidence that sailors may have survived revealed with pictures of life jackets from the vessel found on a nearby island.