Police checking claims, with one suspect insisting she has been 'framed', and put under police guard after death threats.

People begin to mop up their waterlogged homes: but what about the 'abandoned' dogs and cats?

Or is it too expensive to put the environment before the need for energy?

New director Andrey Gorban, 47, on the challenges of modernising one of Siberia's favourite zoos, and dealing with his tapir's tantrums.

Loyal pet was freed but sadly died after being rushed to the vet by animal activists after suffering hypothermia in minus 32C.

A plan has been drafted to catch and kill 2,200 stray dogs in Gorno-Altaisk, the capital of the Altai Republic.

A rare Amur tiger is threatening villagers and their pets in Linevichi.

First sighting of the year of Bigfoot in Siberia.

Ivan and Lubov Leshchenko keep the animals in the backyard of their village of Dubovy Kliuch - Oak key - in the Far East of Russia.