Vapour trail casts ghostly spectre above Altai just minutes after rocket carrying satellite blasts off into space.

Currently there are 730,000 animals but numbers are 'unsustainable', risking disease spreading and chronic overgrazing.

First cargo train on the final link of Amur-Yakutsk line in historic expansion of Siberia's great railways.

London calling for the man whose dark humour surrounding Sochi led to 'censorship'.

'And I very much hope that the law in Russian is not an empty vessel, and the people in our country are prohibited from eating one another'.

The flag they plant on top of the mountain will display all those supporting the project. 

Alexei Gorulenko confessed to keeping himself alive by eating human flesh, but denied killing Olga Kurochkina's husband.