Palaeolithic ‘Matryoshka’ made from a mammoth bone and skull of Arctic fox is found in Siberia
Kolyma highway in Yakutia, also known as the Road of Bones, is on fire and temporarily shut
Russia’s largest and coldest region is on fire - again, and this year wildfires strike early
Cloning of mammoth will be successful in 10 years, predicts head of region earmarked for their home
Cute first pictures of new 50,000 year old cave lion cub found perfectly preserved in permafrost
Puzzle over Arctic ‘breeding and dying ground’ for ancient animals from woolly mammoth era
Lost but happy eating fish: the polar bear that strayed 700 km too far south
Hungry, exhausted, only half their normal weight: Tragedy for black bears
Flying to save the rarest big cat in the world
Extent of Chinese influence in Russian Far East shown by investment in Khabarovsk
Two new plants to bottle Baikal's 'pure' water for foreign export
Allow visa-free tourism between Russia and China, says senior Beijing official
Tragic death of 28 year old women's judo star Elena Ivashchenko
Siberian children to start the Olympic flame's longest ever journey
Spring to blossom until summer at Russia's largest theatre
Irkutsk tops the list of Siberia's most beautiful cities
Female student will be allowed back to study in September after being ejected for wearing hijab
Brave foreign swimmers join hardy Russians in bid for record-breaking (and ice-breaking) swim
Thailand wants more tourists from Siberia
Little Anya Ustinova, born in Krasnoyarsk, is already a one in a million child
The greatest dog racers in the world. A gruelling thousand miles journey begins tomorrow
Karina became the symbol of resilience and hope when - aged only 4 - she survived 12 days in taiga of Yakutia.
Lena Pillars, a World Heritage Site, hit by the rampant flames, as calls grow for greater efforts to tackle infernos.
Mystery how the bronze dancer, his arms raised in an ecstatic trance, reached modern-day Novosibirsk region.
Luna the panther was rescued from a travelling zoo when its mother refused to feed the cub.
Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.
Soul-stirring images of eruption on the Klyuchevskaya Sopka caught by extreme travellers at altitude of 2,850 metres (9,350 ft).