One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.

Misha and Masha transported from one side of Russia to the other to their new home.

Rusting Sherman dating from WW2 airlifted all the way across Russia for use in major military parade.

Three year wait for permission which never came. 

Like a Russian nesting doll, one diamond is inside another.

A special tax regime - including zero rates - to kick-start the economy is under active consideration by the Kremlin. 

It is a medical fact that children are healthier if they daily run out into the snow in their swimming costumes - and pour a bucket of cold water over their heads.

They ran over bear 8 times with Pajero, then kicked it, but angry animal escaped and tried to kill them.

A Copenhagen scientific expedition is on its way to prepare a claim that vast energy wealth under the Arctic belongs to the Danish Crown.

The Okhotsk Sea quake registered 8.3 on the Richter Scale at a depth of 600km, and prompted a tsunami warning.