Capable of carrying 200 people and tonnes of cargo, new blimp for the 21st century could soon be taking off.

An expedition to one of Eurasia's northernmost caves unlocks secrets that might help explain the extinction of mammoths.

Quality of life in booming oil capital Tyumen is better than that in Moscow or St Petersburg, says financial survey.

Real-life adventurers to a 'professional blonde' queue to participate in the ultimate brutal television reality contest, where 'rape and murder' are not banned.

A giant furry octopus? Remains of a woolly mammoth? An unknown primeval creature from the deep?

People evacuated after thunderstorms-with-no-rain ignite foliage and forests.

Three adventurers are to drive from the United Kingdom to the world's coldest inhabited town Oymyakon in the Republic of Sakha.

Group had made record-breaking 650km drive on frozen river from Norilsk to Dikson, but got into trouble on return before being plucked to safety.

Now the fun begins: tourists swimming in -60C and momentous meeting between the seasonal icons Chyskhaan and Grandfather Frost.

Standing two metres tall, the giant deer was assumed to be extinct about 10,300 years ago, but new research finds it was still alive across Siberia.