For past year devoted Masha has been waiting in a hospital for the beloved owner who will never return.

Hungry predators arrive at local eye clinic ‘for a check up’, or more likely a meal, banging on door to demand entry.

Meet our unique Siberian love child, a female cross between a lion and a tigress, and the undisputed star of Novosibirsk Zoo.

Parents concerned about their children from huge wild cat  - or more than one - on the loose, with another terrorising Solontsovy village.

Druzhok was rescued once but swam back to do his duty on the doorstep of the waterlogged house in Eastern Russia.

Christmas cheer for the devoted little dog who has waited at the same spot for the owner who will never return.

'We're Russian Koreans,' comes the reply.

Geysers, active volcanoes, thermal lakes, mountains, Pleistocene glaciers, cascading rivers... and a lot of bears!