Challenge to polar doom warning from respected international expert Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University.

Another success in major operation to clamp down on illegal batches of luxury food during fishing season in Siberia.

Investigators find one billion roubles in currency and expensive jewellery, including a diamond-encrusted pen, as official faces corruption charge.

Across the Russian polar regions, these eye-catching pictures show how thawing soil leads to territories being washed away.

He emphasised the importance of the economically buoyant Asian-Pacific region as critical to the development of Russia as Western markets stall.

Sergeants Nadezhda Durachenko and Galina Mikhailova both named among the victims.

Permanent customs task force unveiled as Sabetta gears up to take Russian goods and gas over the top of the world.

City is buried under white blanket after 'freak weather' in Russian Far East.