As Western children salute Santa's Rudolph, here in the Sakha Republic the antlered animals are in peril from ravenous predators.

Hope for millions around world with preparations under way for clinical trials on people starting next year.

Compass failure: aiming for the Caspian Sea, the elegant birds arrive instead on the Tom River in Kemerovo region, and in the Altai Mountains.

Ice swimming at night is the best cure for winter blues.

Boris Fyodorov, 37, complains it was 'too warm', and now wants to try in minus 60C.

How horseracing and equestrian culture is developing in the Sakha Republic.

Giant Great Grey Owl hitches a lift on epic 5,700 mile journey to Moscow after injuring itself hunting.

Intrigue over how German-made 12th century blade, adorned in Sweden, reached Siberia.

More than a dozen animals killed by self-appointed executioner and dumped by a river near lakeside town.

'When I came to Yergaki National Park I was blown away by the beauty of the place. It was so stunning it felt unreal'.