President Putin opened his visit to Buryatia by going to Ivolga Datsan, the main monastery of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha in Russia.

But is climate change to blame, or local officials who went on vacation instead of fighting fires?

Revealing pictures of Siberian ruins as new royal theory may explain this remote 8th century summer schloss.

Grandfather Egor Tarasov's 'miraculous' survival story of 42 days alone in the tundra with polar and brown bears, and wolves.

Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.

New director Andrey Gorban, 47, on the challenges of modernising one of Siberia's favourite zoos, and dealing with his tapir's tantrums.

Lubov means Love in English and this remarkable babushka has done everything for her unusual 'grandchildren'.

Model Amina Karat, 34, poses on the Saamys-Kumaga sands in Yakutia.

State of emergency in Irkutsk region as President Vladimir Putin flies in amid carnage from heavy rain - with ‘worse to come’.