As new season starts, video of illegal trapping shows the source of fur for highly prized coats.
There are only two places in Russia where Whooper Swans come for winter.
Popular with the aristocracy and the royals in the 18th and 19th centuries, the lavish festivity will be held for tourists.
Don't shoot but instead feed starving roe deer, decide men in the Altai Mountains.
With dumpy little legs, a dense body and a penchant for hiding from trouble, the Manul has proved elusive to nature lovers worldwide.
Wild hoofed animals are in peril in the Far East of Russia due to exceptionally heavy snow falls which are covered by an ice crust.
Foreigners should be invited to pay $10,000 per animal in novel way to fund cull needed to save reindeer and horses.
Vitalina Batsarashkina, 19, from Omsk, in tribute to grandfather as she celebrates Rio medal.
Ivan Klimov, 24, was stabbed just metres from his home in Omsk.