I hate the cold, yet here I was, in winter, boarding a plane for Siberia. This was no holiday– after all, no one goes to Siberia for a holiday!

Often bears encroaching towns are shot, but in Dalnegorsk they spared the life of 'too friendly' wild animal.

Startling new evidence of thawing of glacial ice in less than six decades, with process speeding in last ten years.

Otto Lagerfeld held in bleak camp in Verkhoyansk for four years of First World War, show contemporary documents.

Excitement in console world as preview shows heroine Lara Croft fighting off bears and exploring snowy steppe in latest outing.

Anastasia Strashevskaya, 18, from Novosibirsk vows to keep studying as she qualifies for casting for the Miss Russia pageant.

Distressed leopardess killed - then ate - her cubs caught in illegal loop-trap.

There are movies made about the girls performing at the Paralympic Games and the parents who adopted them. But no one notices them in Russia.

Konstantin Zhuravlyov must be one of Siberia's best ambassadors to the world after his epic journey.

Many families with young children among those finding new homes - and hope - in Siberia.