Alexey has accrued 13 children, 117 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren over his lifetime, and there may be more on the way!

Vostochny's debut blastoff will be next year, hopefully spring, a delay of at least four months.

Photographers enchanted by polar bear's maternal instinct as they capture these heartwarming pictures.

The aim? To put in place a Moscow government 'friendly' to Washington, and to protect US interests and citizens.

At least 21 more are fighting for life, gravely ill, in hospital from the lethal concoction.

Beast kills trekker's dog, but exhausted Andrey Ilyushits, 43, survived clinging to branches in Kemerovo region.

Wooden statue 5.3m high with eight faces gazed over the water for only two decades, but leaves us with a conundrum 11,600 years later.

Distressing pictures of lost and emaciated predator on streets of Norilsk shocked the world earlier this year, but now she is transformed.

Television journalist Elena Agamyan and husband Sergey were first night guests of brand new Marriott in Siberian 'capital' Novosibirsk.