TNK-BP, a Russian-British company, is under fire concerning 784 environmental accidents reported in 2011, compared with 20 by rival Lukoil.

Experts delighted as camera records flirting between Amur leopards in the wild for the first time.

Record sighting of Narwhal at 88 degrees north by Russian scientific expedition.

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.

Separated for 10 years after being sent to an orphanage and possibly adopted overseas, Sofia is desperate for information about younger sibling Yuri.

Yakutia in a white blanket as temperatures dip to minus 6C as winter 'comes too soon'.

The remarkable annual Beringia dog sled race will go through some of the planet's remotest and most challenging territory in Kamchatka.

Here are some seasonal pictures as western Siberia gets its debut whiteout of the autumn. 

Aware of accounts of mysterious relic reptiles lurking in the deep, here are the first pictures from a record breaking dive.