Pictures of the paws, stashed in the tyres of their vehicle, have gone around the world.
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.
Drivers take 12 days covering 7,000km to see how new 'plug-in' rechargeable cars cope with climate and landscape.
Professional sportsman Vitalyi Slobodinyk, 33, filmed as he is towed on a rope by a car in 'life threatening' escapade.
As police say lama found in lotus positon was destined for sale on black market, there are claims it was one step away from becoming a Buddha.
Dozens of major tremors recorded this year as scientists monitor 'unusually strong seismic activity' that will one day tear continent in half.
The swollen Amur River reached a depth of 910 cm near Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Sunday, with fears it could hit 940cm.
This year sees the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov, the Russian royal family thrown on the scrapheap of history in 1917.