As new season starts, video of illegal trapping shows the source of fur for highly prized coats.

Birds that Vladimir Putin tried to save have 'almost disappeared' due to illegal shooting.

Low temperatures are a time for fun in -50C and below - riding bikes, ice swimming or eating frozen noodles.

Amazing new pictures show a endangered Amur leopard with a cub.

From frost-resistant woolly pigs to sheep that look like goats and horses that love playing the snow, there are lots of surprises across the taiga.

Previously unknown subspecies confirmed by DNA tests and probably numbering around 400.

White-knuckle driver Roman Rusinov and motor journalist Andrey Leontjev smash the Russian on-ice speed record. 

Toxic gas kills workers at vegetable warehouse in Krasnoyarsk. 

What I wasn't expecting was just how beautiful everything looked under the sparkling white blanket of snow.