Leading oil producer Rosneft burns spilled oil to 'minimise ecological damage'.
Handler defends moving the reptile in extreme conditions after media highlight animal's death from hypothermia.
Plan for Islamic extremist attack on city during May public holidays marking the anniversary of the end of World War Two.
Ancient items of jewellery found by archeologists on Taymyr peninsula are stone labrets which were inserted into the face below the bottom lip.
Siberian ancestors hunted the squat short-legged horse, even though this type of animal was believed to have been wiped out 400,000 years ago.
Ancient Xiongnu-era woman took stylish accessory to the afterlife.
Modern fluoroscopy identifies sheep bones inside the Tagar culture death mask.
More than century of waiting ended on Saturday as just married couples were the first to walk on the new cable-stayed Golden Horn Bay Bridge.