Putin fires top official in Russian Far East, and calls for Investigative Committee to check how authorities performing.

Vice Premier says 'majority' of work on the replacement to Soyuz for future of Space travel likely to be in city of Omsk.

Forlorn polar bear named Umka turned up at a Russian police station as if pleading for help: now he is back where he belongs.

One estimate is half a million new jobs stemming from improvements to the Baikal-Amur Mainline link amid hopes of foreign investment.

One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.

Fear that thawing permafrost caused damage to storage tank.

Analysts say opening of LNG facility in Queensland with exports to China could affect Yamal as Pacific countries look to take on Russia in Asia.

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.

Here we go back in time and remember 13 remarkable moments of 2013.