Wild animal uses eye contact to 'flatter' biologist Alexander Yakovlev - hoping for a tasty breakfast - at dawn on the shores of the freezing Gulf of Ob.

Operator MTS plugs in key northern communities to fast mobile internet.

A renaissance of one of Siberia's first outposts as the Far North becomes the new economic frontier.

One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.

Wide-body aircraft being used for passengers flying into Sabetta International as region gears up to become a gas powerhouse.

Endemic to the remote island of Novaya Zemlya, it survived the Ice Age here, scientists believe, the only creature known to have done so.

New study warns of methane escaping from the sea floor due to degradation of submarine permafrost.

Hi-tech project would use computer models to predict climate change and help with safe production of oil and gas in Northern Russia.

Macabre remains of six slaughtered polar bears, 'beheaded with their skins removed', now under criminal investigation.