Pictured: the gleaming riches no-one was meant to see belonging to an ancient nomad potentate, and his queen...or was she his concubine? 

Actor is being awarded the Siberian Oscar (if he arrives to collect it) - but is also now wanted as a tourism guru after 'blunder' on Urals pollution.

The rare Amur tigress was saved from starvation more than a year ago after she was orphaned when poachers killed her mother.

Fears are rising for eight year old Nastya Lutsishina who disappeared after her gymnastics class finished ten minutes early.

Fisherman Vladimir Kristya, 69, got lost on ice in Amur Bay as huge snowstorm engulfed Vladivostok.

Toyota Premio 'crushed like cardboard' after it was rammed on highway, smashing into a lamppost. 

Grapes for first 10,000 bottles of wine now being harvested in Altai vineyards.

Thrown in as a puppy, the mongrel grew too large to escape through a tiny hole through which local residents gave her food and water.

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

Four bodies found, search underway for the other six on board a capsized patrol boat in poor weather.