The world famous English National Ballet with first soloist Anais Chalendard is to perform in the Sakha Republic for the first time.
With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.
Siberian mammoth graveyards provoke a new theory on why the creatures were wiped out, and how dogs were domesticated.
Two more cling on to a railing in an incident in Lensk, Sakha Republic, caught on video.
Tourist camps to be built at Stalinist camps where millions perished in the Soviet era, under new plan.
Sculpture of girl and her dog, whose story captivated the world, to be erected at Yakutsk Airport.
Greenpeace claim authorities underestimate the scale of destruction, amid warnings of lack of resources to fight fires.
Recent reports showed 89 wildfires in Siberia and 25 in the Russian Far East as a new season of damage to forests gets underway.