New director Andrey Gorban, 47, on the challenges of modernising one of Siberia's favourite zoos, and dealing with his tapir's tantrums.

Desperate plea by teen whose American mother sent her aged 15...to Siberia.

I am now, for the first time in my life, living in a sanctioned country.

Emaciated animal walked 1500km south and away from Arctic Ocean, searching for food.

Iturup gets connected, opening up the stunning scenery of the Kuril Islands to tourism.

Mysterious 'gigantic' hole in remote region spotted by helicopters over gas-rich Yamal peninsula.

Her US mom still refuses to take back the daughter who 'loves her', and who she abandoned in Russia 32 months ago.

It is as great a nightmare as any parent can face: you love the daughter you have raised, but you suddenly discover she is not yours.

First sighting of the year of Bigfoot in Siberia.