Talks also underway on gas supply route to China via Altai Mountains.
All 17 people he was in contact with - six of them children - are also quarantined to prevent spread of one of world's most deadly infectious diseases.
Distressed leopardess killed - then ate - her cubs caught in illegal loop-trap.
Pet saves helpless child's life acting as surrogate parent in temperatures averaging minus 12C.
Medieval archer's 'unique quiver' and arrows with iron tips found in hole in a cliff, along with his wooden sarcophagus.
Archeological evidence from the Altai region makes clear the arrival of Homo erectus from Africa can be dated at between 800,000 and one million years ago.
Vapour trail casts ghostly spectre above Altai just minutes after rocket carrying satellite blasts off into space.
The world's fluffiest feline get a first-in-the-world scientific zone where the endangered wildcats will be protected and studied.
Grapes for first 10,000 bottles of wine now being harvested in Altai vineyards.