Today it's +32C in Yakutsk, the world’s coldest city, and locals escape heatwave like true Siberians - by chilling on ice.

'The contract in current market parameters is absolutely unprecedented', Putin told investors at the annual Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Reindeer herders find more craters in the far north in a deepening puzzle for scientists. 

The world famous traveller made call ahead of his latest epic adventure by dog sled to Greeland via the North Pole.

At least 6 are believed to have the virulent intestinal form of the disease from which one boy has already died.

The unique discovery was three or four years old when it died at least 20,000 years ago.

This is precisely how Yakutia gets its impressive river fleet ready for the new season of navigation.