This summer's melting of permafrost is more than THREE TIMES greater than usual, unlocking long-frozen deadly diseases.

Map of shame: Greenpeace highlights junk and debris in dozens of sites across the 'pristine' environment.

Rare outbreak of 'hooliganism' in build-up to FIFA World Cup leaves 30 year old father dead 'from cracked temple and broken neck’.

No official explanations for darkness over swathes of Yakutia amid conspiracy theories of a UFO, new weapons tests, a meteorite, or pollution from wildfires.

The Kremlin's 'Mr Siberia' Viktor Tolokonsky tells 'Sphere of Influence' business magazine what our vast region means to him.

Leading expert assesses the risk of 'waking up' this deadly disease currently eradicated, and warns that rising Russian levels of HIV brings a far greater risk.

Druzhok was rescued once but swam back to do his duty on the doorstep of the waterlogged house in Eastern Russia.

Russians grieving over damage to magical forests surrounding Siberia's jewel.

Russian officials claimed little orphan Maxim Kuzmin suffered an appalling death after being adopted to the US.