Place your bets as Russia takes on Macau and Las Vegas to woo Pacific gamblers.

Summer 2020 follows unusually hot and dry spring in swinging between the extremes.

Hi-tech project would use computer models to predict climate change and help with safe production of oil and gas in Northern Russia.

Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.

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

Old tsarist Road of Exiles has disturbing number of accidents.

New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.

Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'.