This vast region has some of the world's greatest rivers, but they could do much more to support the economic regeneration and security of the country.

Avelina Antsiferova fulfilled her life's dream when she sat in cockpit of wartime Douglas C-47, 69 years after kissing her papa goodbye for last time.

Final message of hero pilot found scrawled in Douglas C-47 aircraft he crash landed with no loss of life in 1947.

Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.

Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one. 

Demands increased on 3 August for a 'state of emergency' to be declared on the world's fifth longest river due to a catastrophic shortage of water.

Monuments to the Bolshevik leader are the key to a new competitive sport called Lenining. 

Toxic fuel from 21,000 ton leak reaches pristine lake, bypassing floating booms, as rivers of diesel pollution cover-up is exposed.