The terrified cow ran from a field in Lesogorsk after the amorous bull started harassing it, said witnesses.

How horseracing and equestrian culture is developing in the Sakha Republic.

From the Pacific in the east, to the Urals in the west, hardy Russians display their religious feelings - and bravery.

A powerful backlash has hit new laws due to be speeded through parliament on 'modernising' the country's science.

Remnants of this land mass still exist in Russia, the US, Canada and Greenland, says groundbreaking new research.

Around 400 delegates are expected including representatives of 41 ethnic minorities representing around a quarter of a million people. 

One of the great sights for early travellers across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway after its opening in 1899. 

One of the first stone buildings in Novosibirsk, the cathedral stands at the very beginning of its main street, Krasniy Prospect.  

Built in the neo-Byzantine style with a gilded dome, it is named after one of the giants of Russian medieval history, but was also a monument to Tsar Alexander III, who initiated construction of the railway and the establishment of a station at Novonikolayevsk, as the city was then known, and donated the land and the money for the building. 

Details revealed on lunar plans in coming decades.

Scientists find how the animals produce ethanol in winter as an anti-freeze giving them the survival spirit.

Workers in northern Siberia have their own inventive way to cross a fast-flowing river.