A desperate hunt for six teenagers missing on a Tyva mountain was hampered in poor weather conditions including the threat of new avalanches. 

Animal rights organisation criticises 'savage' use of female body part as 'talisman', and other 'cures'.

Russia’s worst-ever serial killer convicted today for raping and murdering 56 more women. 

Construction has begun on a Park Inn by Radisson hotel in Novosibirsk with its opening planned for 2014.

Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.

The authorities in Bratsk have received more than 60 calls from residents complaining of bears on the streets and close to houses.

Events highlight the scourge of terrorism and the unity of Russians in the face of the cruel attack on children and parents.

This and 10 other silly questions answered by the Arctic explorer Alexander Oboimov.

A 15 million rouble subsidy has been granted to airline S7 to operate flights on the Moscow to Gorno-Altaisk route during the rest of  2012.