Vadim Klabukov, 23, paid with his life after flouting safety rules when he went to retrieve lost backpack in South Kamchatka nature reserve.

Some regions parched, others underwater in latest meteorological surprises.

Experts in Tomsk use pioneering techniques to solve crimes.

Poaching threatens the species which provide livelihoods for thousands around the lake.

Your guide is the Chairman of the Tuva Republic's government, Sholban Kara-Ool.

Exceptional display from new exhibition in Irkutsk is the work of an entire family. 

Mother in heart-rending nationwide appeal to find loving mother and father she can trust to raise her boy when she is gone.

Scientists challenge nature by adopting an endangered orphan kitten, aiming to release her into the wild.

As the world prepares to herald in the arrival of 2015, we look back at the winter celebrations of the Soviet yesteryear.