World famous sculptor has been commissioned to create a new landmark sculpture in Kyzyl - the capital of Tyva - marking the spirit of Asia.

Distressed leopardess killed - then ate - her cubs caught in illegal loop-trap.

Defences were breached in Komsomolsk-on-Amur engulfing several villages, as forced evacuation rise.

A grave on Lena River sand bank ‘proves site north of Yakutsk city is not historic original Cossack settlement’ in coldest region.

The acids are seen as vital to decrease development of cardiovascular diseases and promote good health.

Warnings of worse rain for the rest of the week came on Wednesday as evacuation of 30 settlements was planned by the authorities.

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

'Dauria' has campaigned for 20 years for cleaner environment but the ruling has angered the organisation which now faces an uncertain future.

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

You may be bang smack in the middle of old Imperial Russia, and so about as far from the sea as you can get, but Novosibirsk boasts several notable beaches.

One is in the city, called Nautilus, on the west bank of the Ob River near the Tube Bridge - and gets crowded on hot summer days. 

Or venture to the Ob Sea, a vast artificial lake created in 1957, and filled in 1959 near Akademgorodok, where university students chill out between lectures.