Amazing new pictures show a endangered Amur leopard with a cub.
Vital link uniting east and west of the country will realise a long-held dream.
Overhead high voltage cables at touching level for children, foals are slaughtered because mares too weak to feed them.
Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.
Russian army biological protection troops called in amid warnings 'utmost care' needed to stop deadly infection spreading.
All ice crossings shut in Irkutsk region, local emergency service on top alert.