Birds that Vladimir Putin tried to save have 'almost disappeared' due to illegal shooting.

An expedition to one of Eurasia's northernmost caves unlocks secrets that might help explain the extinction of mammoths.

Endangered Amur tigress with two cubs born in the wild is at risk from poachers.

Or was it a meteor lighting up the early morning sky over the Pacific port?

Foreign visitors transiting on Russian airlines will be able to stay for 72 hours without documents as part of move to help boost tourism and economy.

Mummified potentate and wife were found in burial mound 42 metres in diameter, and they went to the next life alongside 9 geldings, saddled and harnessed.

Urgent measures underway to evacuate residents of remote villages after flood threat caused by rising water above new ‘dam’.