Ideas are clearly needed for more effective ways of countering the annual wildfire scourge, as the trend remains towards drier and hotter summers.

Olga Kurochkina earlier appealed to Vladimir Putin to force the authorities to check if her husband was killed by cannibals. 

Huge progress as Russia's $5 billion cosmodrome is readied for first launch.

Driver spots big cat at side of busy road, alerts police, and young male is tranquillised.

Members of two families perished and others are missing as emergency services scrambled to the scene.

Environmentalists rescued the male cub after its mother apparently died in unexplained circumstances.

In case of any doubts, we mean the twitching variety, which are now back to Siberia, resting before their next extraordinary journey. 

Top secret Stalin-era aircraft went down with 2 million roubles on board.

5,000 year old site used for fish processing but also rituals which remain a 'huge mystery' involving wolverines and ermine.

Reports stated there was 'panic' among locals after the four convicts staged their dramatic escape from an Irkutsk region prison.