Putin backs proposal to give one hectare to each citizen or person willing to move to region in a bid to stimulate economy and boost population.

Stanley cup winner Valery Kamensky and other stars make history on frozen Lake Baikal.

A Moscow scientist is calling for a new scientific expedition to solve the mystery of a huge 'monster'. 

Hope for future of the rare species as census says there could be as many as 540 of them now living in the Far East.

Desperate attempts are being made to save a 13 year old boy whose condition is described 'grave'.

Pyramid is literally frozen in time, captured on camera by Vladimir Prokofiev.

Old tsarist Road of Exiles has disturbing number of accidents.

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

Agafya Lykova, 73, lives in home her father built when he secretly fled Stalin's religious persecution, vanishing from world in 1936.