But is climate change to blame, or local officials who went on vacation instead of fighting fires?

Another grave in ancient burial shows ‘expensive jewellery’ brought home to lived ones from Europe.

People evacuated after thunderstorms-with-no-rain ignite foliage and forests.

There are movies made about the girls performing at the Paralympic Games and the parents who adopted them. But no one notices them in Russia.

This evocative melody is literally the sound of Nature as a group of Russian percussionists make music on the frozen waters of breathtaking Lake Baikal.

For quarter of a century he waited for police to come for him, convinced - wrongly - he had murdered girlfriend and her daughter in knife attack.

Contradictory reports on cause of death as Colin Madsen's remains found in snow in mountainous region of Republic of Buryatia.

Valery Malkov from Bratsk, Irkutsk region, was wearing only a T-shirt, shorts and slippers.

A 175-room Marriott hotel is to open on a landmark site in Novosibirsk, while Irtuksk is set to get both a Kempinski and a Hyatt.