Damage from wave of floods already labelled 'catastrophic' with worse to come as Russian president Vladimir Putin demands: 'Put people first'.

Footprints of the world’s biggest cat found in Yakutia, the planet’s coldest permanently inhabited region.

More than 20,000 residents were moved as rivers burst their banks with forecasts of worsening flooding later this week.

The recording comes as several people get killed and wounded in recent 'worst-ever' bear attacks.

It should be called the 'Pacific region', he suggests.

For the first time in 12 years a family of tigers returns to reserve in Khabarovsk region.

The vehicle with Orthodox pilgrims on board flipped into a ditch and overturned down an embankment, falling 'the height of a 5 storey building’.

Two men shared a video of feeding spicy pork and sausages to one of the endangered predators.

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