Cargo with 650 fragments from the extinct beasts was held in Vladivostok after illegal export from Yakutia.

Some 16 from the aircraft with military personnel on board are 'severely injured' and were flown by helicopter to hospitals in Tiksi.

Summer 2020 follows unusually hot and dry spring in swinging between the extremes.

Fires have wreaked havoc this summer with Yakutia and the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous the latest to be hard hit.

Experts to check remains uncovered during road building excavations close to Tit-Ary in Khangalassky district.

Russia’s coldest region struggles to tame fires intensified by lengthy heatwave in extreme north.

The unique discovery was three or four years old when it died at least 20,000 years ago.

Practised in Yakutia for generations, there is only one way to learn the art of ice fishing as Yakutia school children have discovered.

New enterprise will work with rough diamonds from Alrosa, which holds the world's largest reserves in Yakutia.

Appalling conditions in Alrosa's Mir mine forces end to search on submerged level 310 some 11 days after devastating flood.