The world famous English National Ballet with first soloist Anais Chalendard is to perform in the Sakha Republic for the first time.

Football here is as good as Scotland's, and the players are in better shape, claims Garry O'Connor

Dozens of major tremors recorded this year as scientists monitor 'unusually strong seismic activity' that will one day tear continent in half.

A student of a medical academy in Krasnoyarsk was ejected after refusing to stop wearing her headscarf.

Two young birds saved after taking a seriously wrong turn during migration.

Master blacksmith reveals how modern knives are closely related to those excavated from ancient archeological sites.

Two-thirds of Chinese side already completed, but delay in Russia prompts call from Kremlin to speed up work on other side.

Thousands of years ago woolly mammoths came here to die: but why?  The macabre ancient remains haunt local residents to this day.