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.

Proof that lions roamed northern Siberia in the age of the mammoths and woolly rhinoceros.

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.