Elders in Altai Mountains vote to reinter mummy of ancient woman 'to stop her anger which causes floods and earthquakes'.

Remains of suspected female of Turkik origin found in at an altitude of 2,803 metres in the Altai Mountains.

Kara-ool Dopchun-ool - the highest shaman in the Tuva Republic, and also Turkey - explains his role in his own words.

Tsar's daughter may, after all, have escaped the execution which wiped out the royal family, says new book.

Avelina Antsiferova fulfilled her life's dream when she sat in cockpit of wartime Douglas C-47, 69 years after kissing her papa goodbye for last time.

Remarkable images show a test tube blood sample from a female of the long-extinct species. 

As well as her amazing 'modern' footwear, this Mongolian 'seamstress' went to the afterlife with four changes of clothes, her sewing kit, a horse and a ram's head.

Russia’s coldest region struggles to tame fires intensified by lengthy heatwave in extreme north.

The vehicle with Orthodox pilgrims on board flipped into a ditch and overturned down an embankment, falling 'the height of a 5 storey building’.