Agafya Lykova rejects leaving her remote house even though debris from coming rocket launch could fall dangerously close.

Girl walked 8 km all alone in minus 34C from remote family home to report her beloved grandmother's death, and beg help for blind grandfather.

Remains of extinct 'Steppe Mammoth' could bring new leap in understanding of 200,000 year old creatures.

Russian photographer writes about a volcanic eruption at Tolbachik, seen by the Soviets as the most lunar place on the planet.

Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.

A grave on Lena River sand bank ‘proves site north of Yakutsk city is not historic original Cossack settlement’ in coldest region.

WWF starts project to breed Amur leopards and released them in the wild.

Population told there is a 'need' to get back into the garden or field and pull together to overcome economic crisis.

'And I very much hope that the law in Russian is not an empty vessel, and the people in our country are prohibited from eating one another'.