Deputy Prime Minister set for another visit to spaceport as he warns situation at Vostochny is 'critical' with project dogged by delays and corruption.

100-plus Amur leopards are living in the wild, a rise from only 30, and now they are set to get new protected territory to roam.

Businessman has spoken candidly over the controversial events of the 1990s, admitting he paid protection money to criminal gangs. 

A shocking image of a tortured dog - killed after being tied to a rope and pulled by a car around a village - has appalled Siberians.

Hope for future of the rare species as census says there could be as many as 540 of them now living in the Far East.

Delegation of 69, including the representatives of 32 private companies, state and municipal structures arrived in the Southern Kurils.