Colourful election as bears, tigers and half-naked gymnasts vote in record-breaking result.

Tomsk student Ekaterina Bocharova, 21, wins competition against rival cat and tiger designs.

Elephants and tigers entertain public in cities along staggering 16,000km (9,950 mile) route.

NBC is banning Siberians from watching online trailers and a pilot of its new 'thriller' called 'Siberia'.

Proof that lions roamed northern Siberia in the age of the mammoths and woolly rhinoceros.

Big cat Leo80M - also called Nikolay - prepares for flight to Moscow and 'noble mission'. 

Eaten by an ancient cave lion or bear, only the tail was left, preserved by the Siberian permafrost.

Samples taken from cubs frozen in permafrost for at least 12,000 years.

WWF starts project to breed Amur leopards and released them in the wild.