Military strikes from air not ruled out to move giant landslide blocking Bureya River causing flood threat to villages.

Alpha male big cat - believed to be at least 15 years old - ready to get back to saving his endangered species.

29 carriages with coal went off the rails on the Trans-Siberian line in Irkutsk region.

Urgent measures underway to evacuate residents of remote villages after flood threat caused by rising water above new ‘dam’.

Former paratrooper conscript Timofey Menshikov wanted to escape modern life - and vodka - now faces reunion with family he left behind.

Sardana Avksentyeva swept to power as mayor of Russia’s diamond capital in September.