Air Moldova proudly announced its latest destination to a city it called the 'Unofficial Capital of Crude Oil'.
As the world prepares to herald in the arrival of 2015, we look back at the winter celebrations of the Soviet yesteryear.
One region has shot 58 ravaging brown bears this year because they intrude too close to settlements, destroying livestock.
British man to become the first in the world to ride from Pacific to Atlantic ocean.
It might be snowing and cold outside, but inside Zhukovka it will always be 12 degrees… though it can rain on command!
It is only in the vastness of Siberia, perhaps, where a crowdfunded recce trip can lead to such a jaw-dropping discovery...
Locals in Norilsk dive head first into the 4-metre deep fluffy snow as if it were a swimming pool.
Heavy snow falls in recent days cause mayhem in Russia's 'San Francisco'.
The 25 metre tall tree in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk burns to ashes in minutes as fireworks usher in 2018 across Russia.