Airmen 'parachuted' from stricken jet in latest of spate of accidents afflicting military aircraft.

Currently there are 730,000 animals but numbers are 'unsustainable', risking disease spreading and chronic overgrazing.

This year sees the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov, the Russian royal family thrown on the scrapheap of history in 1917.

Tantalising studies now underway to establish if one of two carcases preserved by permafrost has traces of world's oldest mother's milk.

Praise for people who give blood in Siberia's biggest city at a special nationwide action day for donors on Saturday.

People evacuated after thunderstorms-with-no-rain ignite foliage and forests.

He spoke out as Premier Dmitry Medvedev was in Siberia on a trip substantially aimed at leading efforts to combat the serious forest fires.