Boris Fyodorov, 37, complains it was 'too warm', and now wants to try in minus 60C.

Named Olga after the brave woman who helped save her life, the little girl abandoned by her mother at birth has new adoptive parents.

At least 6 are believed to have the virulent intestinal form of the disease from which one boy has already died.

Students and male 'accomplice' to face justice accused of torturing and killing dogs and cats, posting pictures online, and other crimes.

Antidote to gloomy news in the world as 1,525 wear swimsuits for annual Siberian snow festival.

Fast-freezing clothes, hot water fireworks, ice and snow bathing, vodka lollipops, dog sledging - see our report from the Kingdom of Cold.

On 10 February, eight travellers set out on a two month odyssey covering 4,000 km through some of the world's most inhospitable terrain.

Spotlight placed on public service officials who failed to notice ice blocks on a canopy at flats as the spring thaw starts to arrive.

Law enforcement officers sought to 'force confessions from students' in case of US citizen Colin Madsen, found dead in Buryatia.

Currently there are 730,000 animals but numbers are 'unsustainable', risking disease spreading and chronic overgrazing.