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.

Reindeer herders find more craters in the far north in a deepening puzzle for scientists. 

Wildfires rage around Lake Baikal with 5,000-plus emergency workers deployed.

City is buried under white blanket after 'freak weather' in Russian Far East.

For the first time they all get together next to a lump of space rock that almost killed them.

Coldest village in the world hit by severe flooding, with one month's rainfall in a few days.

Extinct reptile with 'toothy grin' found by fishermen as they rafted in remote area of the Yamal peninsula.

Woman pushing baby in pram has narrow escape as ground disappears below her.