The world's fluffiest feline get a first-in-the-world scientific zone where the endangered wildcats will be protected and studied.

Welcome to Mariinsky Pass in Altai Mountains, all ready and waiting for your admiration. 

Agreement means Power of Siberia pipe could be delayed, it is claimed.

DNA of a fossil tooth found in the Altai Mountains shows early man and his best friend were together 19,000 years earlier than previously understood.

Pipeline will go through pristine Altai Mountains in supply route seen as economically vital by Kremlin.

This endangered snow leopard and her two cautious cubs are among only 100 or so living in the wild in Russia.

Surely not a unicorn but scientists are as yet unsure about the owner of this intriguing horn fragment which is perhaps 18,000 years old.