Daring criminals intended to walk across frozen lake to take skins and ‘potency cures’ into China.

Target for cosmonauts to fly from Vostochny spaceport in 2018 is scrapped.

Entirely on her own initiative, Jessica - who will be 21 later this month - is going to Siberia to see her biological mother Natalia, 38, and father Oleg, 37.

Academics restart work to unlock secrets of mystery medieval civilization with links to Persia on edge of the Siberian Arctic.

He landed onto the track in minus 40C wearing only a T-shirt, shorts and slippers. He had left his compartment to go for a cigarette. 

Trackers mark footprints with GPS technology as 2,000 people scour the forests in first count of rare big cat in 10 years.

One man's carelessness causes 'fire tornado' which destroys 59 houses, another avoidable blaze razes 17 homes, as state of emergency called.

Young tigress died from 'prolonged hypothermia and exhaustion' after fears mother was shot by poachers.

Bear and goats among drowned animals at two zoos after typhoon and heavy rain hits Russian Far East.