Research of stalactites and stalagmites in a cave near Lensk in Sakha Republic show the dire threat to the planet from global warming, says a new study.
Scientists warn over 'rapid rate' of spread now accounting for 50% of new infections in Novosibirsk.
I was sitting 3-to-4 metres away from the cubs waiting to see what would happen next. The mother returned back later and fed the cubs.
The mayor of Vladivostok is fed up with Moscow being asleep when he needs key decisions to be made.
A bowhead whale beached on the remote outpost in the Arctic Ocean, and the news spread fast among the island's bears.
New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.
A deal worth at least $60 million a year is close between Russia's largest diamond mining company and the US giant Tiffany & Co.
'I've got to talk to my British colleague,' said the Russian president as he left a key fuel and energy session to take the phone call.
Officially Colin Madsen, 25, died from hypothermia on a hiking trip in Buryatia, but his family are convinced he was killed.
Emergency services refuse to comment cause of extraordinary blast in the dark sky.