Pictures show how drivers face deadly threat from summer fire 'hell' as fuel truck went at top speed to avoid killer spark.

Concern over world's oldest and deepest lake as nasty odour and green algae discourages sunbathers in Buryatia.

Businessman has spoken candidly over the controversial events of the 1990s, admitting he paid protection money to criminal gangs. 

Shoreline on remote island retreats by 74 metres in seven years due to increased wave power of unfrozen sea, and thawing permafrost.

In distant times, parts of California and Hawaii were administered from the city of Irkutsk.

Three Russian nuclear powered icebreakers are leading a huge gas tanker through the Arctic waters on the roof of Siberia. 

What I wasn't expecting was just how beautiful everything looked under the sparkling white blanket of snow.

Bears are increasingly coming out of the forest in search of food, say wildlife experts.