Brown coal in disused Soviet deposit burning at a temperature as high as 600C.
Cornered by local dogs, the animal 'growled' before rescuers saved it.
'Six die' as bridges swept away and 7,600 evacuated after heavy rains.
The world's fluffiest feline get a first-in-the-world scientific zone where the endangered wildcats will be protected and studied.
Siberian woman sets fire to large haystack in revenge for being blocked on web.
Yet nickel capital Norilsk - the city with the highest industrial emissions - does not feature in the top ten.
Breakthrough in understanding shows that they were fluffy and downy like chicks
Macabre cargo including 37 elk lips impounded after FSB tip-off. CAUTION: STRONG IMAGES
Rare historic pictures show Russia's last tsar as the first builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway 125 years ago this month.