American chains Hilton and Marriott among the venues that turned away exiled former billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky's political movement.

Her fun blog from 'cool and exciting' Yakutsk has tips on making the most of the extreme cold.

Olga Kurochkina has spoken out after hearing confirmation that cannibalised human remains found in the taiga were those of her husband.

Giant sinkhole threatens more homes as it widens each week.

Emaciated animal walked 1500km south and away from Arctic Ocean, searching for food.

Success for Liza Alert as snowmobile pair are tracked with help from people hundreds of kilometres away.

Siberian mammoth graveyards provoke a new theory on why the creatures were wiped out, and how dogs were domesticated.

Residents 'heartless' to abandon animals when oil leaked into floodwater.

Afanasiy Polyatinskiy spent ten days taking letters and parcels to remote villages, carrying a gun because of threat of brown bear attacks.

Aware of accounts of mysterious relic reptiles lurking in the deep, here are the first pictures from a record breaking dive.