China is getting closer to European markets due to 'monumental change' wrought by global warming off Siberia's Arctic coast.
This endangered snow leopard and her two cautious cubs are among only 100 or so living in the wild in Russia.
New estimate puts number at 80, almost double some recent figures.
Russia is poised to present the United Nations with the scientific arguments for extending the continental shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk.
New geological evidence shows polar 'submarine elevations' as 'natural components' of Siberian continental land mass.
New find expected to 'change our understanding of the evolution of animals'.
Putin fires top official in Russian Far East, and calls for Investigative Committee to check how authorities performing.