Major engineering achievement will connect Russia’s largest region to Moscow by train for the first time.

Ukraine has moved its Consulate General from Vladivostok to Novosibirsk. The former Soviet state has other Consultates General around Russia already.

With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.

Up to 500 mother bears a year give birth on remote Wrangel island, also the last place to see woolly mammoths.

Thermometers go above zero in places where the winter should be 20 or 30 degrees colder.

The large bear falls on its back and waves paws in the air in exact copy of the whale’s moves.

Magnificent STS Sedov easily passes three Arctic seas exactly 142 years after the famous Vega Expedition was stuck in pack ice for 11 months.

Remnants of this land mass still exist in Russia, the US, Canada and Greenland, says groundbreaking new research.

Three year wait for permission which never came.