200 metres wide thermocirque seen weeks after scientists find funnel in the Yamal peninsula, caused by build up of methane.

As he turned 94 this month, a museum opened in his home village of Kurya, Altai.

Photographers enchanted by polar bear's maternal instinct as they capture these heartwarming pictures.

French photographer takes a snap-shot of everyday life in Eastern Russia and falls in love with 'exotic' region.

Vladimir Putin surprises a female Siberian student with flowers on her 23rd birthday but also comes face to face with a woolly mammoth.

Foreigners should be invited to pay $10,000 per animal in novel way to fund cull needed to save reindeer and horses.

Dissecting them like surgical abscesses to release the gas seen as one solution to avoid future eruptions.

Sensational pictures of last week's meteorite strike have emerged from a Russian photographer.

Glamorous Vita Sidorkina, 22, happy to be part of the annual extravaganza.

Russia has been made officially larger following the chance discovery of a previously unknown island off the northern coast of Siberia.