Colourful election as bears, tigers and half-naked gymnasts vote in record-breaking result.

Seasonal greetings from the east of Russia where there are no less than seven different Father Christmas figures to bring joy to children in winter. 

With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.

Six holy men summon players' ancestors, begging for support in the game against Spain.

One of country’s most prominent politicians believes the capital should be located further away from its Western borders. 

A family was rescued by helicopter after chopping birch trees and using them to spell 'SOS' when they were ringed by blazing wildfires.

Siberian goggles among the world’s earliest eyewear to prevent winter blindness from the sun’s piercing reflection.

New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.

And take part in scientific experiment to PROVE that the leaking of harmful greenhouse gases in the Arctic can be slowed.