Call to locals and tourists to aid experts counter the green gunge 'polluting' world's deepest lake.

Wildfires rage around Lake Baikal with 5,000-plus emergency workers deployed.

Yulia and Dugarma were raised by the wrong mothers, and now face the shocking truth, vowing to see the ‘joy and happiness’.

Separated for 10 years after being sent to an orphanage and possibly adopted overseas, Sofia is desperate for information about younger sibling Yuri.

Forest infernos will be extinguished by the weekend, pledges government, as wildfires become political issue in Moscow.

Exceptional display from new exhibition in Irkutsk is the work of an entire family. 

Sketch sells for 990,000 roubles at New York charity auction alongside rare items belonging to Hollywood superstars.

This week, a second DNA test found she too was swapped as a newborn baby - 22 years earlier - in exactly the same maternity hospital.