First findings from joint UK-Russian project funded by Abu-Dhabi give positive news on future for the rare bird of prey.

Lucky escape due to chance sighting by helicopter after snowmobiles broke miles into the snowy nowhere.

The highway, connecting the cities of Yakutsk with Magadan takes its name from those in gulag camps who perished constructing the bleak road.

Vital link uniting east and west of the country will realise a long-held dream.

Tsarist inmates and Gulag victims were notoriously transported like cattle in packed carriages. Now it's different, as our pictures show.

Tourist camps to be built at Stalinist camps where millions perished in the Soviet era, under new plan.

Travel for the first time by train to Russia's diamond capital, the coldest city in the world!