Raging flames engulf vessel in ten minutes, but 122 passengers escape safely in life rafts after 'pandemonium'.

Radiation, chemical and biological forces tackle two million tonnes of toxic chemical waste with huge mercury stockpile and oil poisons.

Vital for making its waters so 'pure', one theory is that rising underwater methane leaks are killing off the sponge, but is there a silver lining?

In separate case, members of a 'bird mafia' illegally snaring and exporting Red Book hawks and falcons to Middle East were detained in Buryatia.

This time of winter sees the remarkable grandmother, 76, gliding across the ice on the world’s deepest lake on skates made in WW2.

The vehicle with Orthodox pilgrims on board flipped into a ditch and overturned down an embankment, falling 'the height of a 5 storey building’.

Royal discovery made after 99-year-old code is broken by Siberian mathematics genius.

Husband watches as wife is carried away by fast moving mud river after major flooding.

Radical plans to boost the economies of Eastern Siberia and the Far East are emerging in Moscow, say news reports. 

Wildfires rage around Lake Baikal with 5,000-plus emergency workers deployed.