Residents marooned on rooftops after snow melt and heavy rain causes Karasul River to burst its banks.

‘Thousands’ perish amid calls for a state of emergency in the region, with fears anthrax vaccine is a cause of death.

Officially Colin Madsen, 25, died from hypothermia on a hiking trip in Buryatia, but his family are convinced he was killed.

Parents concerned about their children from huge wild cat  - or more than one - on the loose, with another terrorising Solontsovy village.

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

As Western children salute Santa's Rudolph, here in the Sakha Republic the antlered animals are in peril from ravenous predators.

Once part of the longest road in the world, tourist officials launch new initiative to get visitors to experience the pathway that linked West with East.