Leading oil producer Rosneft burns spilled oil to 'minimise ecological damage'.

Seven year old Raul Kutliakhmetov was trying to rescue his best friend - a stray dog - stuck in three-metre deep roadside service shaft.

Prosecutors studying video evidence of men shouting 'squash him!' seconds before impact with animal on track.

Passengers get wet feet as they board flight to Norilsk.

Businessman Yevgeny Vlasov, 53, fell through ice hole but in last words shouted to son to walk to the family’s village store.

More than 40 participants from Russia and abroad take part in the annual Lake Baikal challenge.

Discovery of blood in creature frozen for 43,000 years is seen as major breakthrough by international team.

Latest addition to English peasant farmer Michael Ware's family enjoys her first Russian winter.

Once part of the longest road in the world, tourist officials launch new initiative to get visitors to experience the pathway that linked West with East.

Amur tigress orphaned in 2012 and released after rehabilitation a year later pictured with her cubs in Bastak Nature Reserve.