Amateur photographer who takes samurai sword for protection in lonely taiga captures the stunning majesty spreading its colours in the sky.
Blocks of soil and ice thrown hundreds of metres from epicentre of the funnel at the Yamal peninsula.
Vice Premier sees scope to make Arctic 'ours forever' with plans to harness resources and help protect fragile environment.
Record sighting of Narwhal at 88 degrees north by Russian scientific expedition.
A 26 year old Siberian woman is facing 15 years in jail after strangling a man with her bra after he refused to lend her money for a drinking binge.
Vector Research Centre to test several vaccine variants to counter deadly virus.
Ideas are clearly needed for more effective ways of countering the annual wildfire scourge, as the trend remains towards drier and hotter summers.
Government announces $1.8 bln package, while volunteers from all over the wolrd collect more than 450 tonnes of trash from the shoreline of the unique lake.
Nearby mothballed uranium mine caused the poisoning which led to severe drowsiness, say scientists.
Infant lost its mother but 43,500 years later gives remarkable evidence that cavemen in prehistoric Europe were RIGHT to draw the species with spots.