Beast was seen daily on roadside begging for food from humans, but he fell for a cabbage pie bait and was returned to wild.
Grigory Akhara, 21, was unconscious but alive when driver Ulyana Lobanova, 30, and her foul-mouthed husband Roman, 42, refused to back-up.
Geysers, active volcanoes, thermal lakes, mountains, Pleistocene glaciers, cascading rivers... and a lot of bears!
Two weeks after collecting his passport from Vladimir Putin, the Hollywood actor discloses intriguing DNA in his family tree.
Greenpeace claim authorities underestimate the scale of destruction, amid warnings of lack of resources to fight fires.
As usual there is outlandish speculation about an alien visit, but there is genuine puzzlement and disagreement among experts over the mystery object.
The Okhotsk Sea quake registered 8.3 on the Richter Scale at a depth of 600km, and prompted a tsunami warning.
Our map shows the attacks by bears on humans across a swathe of Siberia and the Russian Far East.
Sparkling discovery of precious gems in solidified lava of Tolbachik flare-up.
Getting to Siberia for foreigners has never been easier.