Winter show time as birds flock to unique ice-free Altai waters.

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

New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.

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. 

Colourful election as bears, tigers and half-naked gymnasts vote in record-breaking result.