'Scary' scenes as fumes from burning forests cover Lake Baikal, with people - and bears - fleeing 'Apocalypse'.
Cornered by local dogs, the animal 'growled' before rescuers saved it.
Staycations have become a 'mass source of income' for businesses on the edge of Baikal, with predictions of more to come in 2015.
Russia could get a major boost from an influx of Chinese visitors.
Director of Alliance Francaise cultural organisation in Irkutsk 'removed his electronic tagging device and fled'.
Is increased tourism, or a normal natural cycle, to blame for the rapid growth of spirogyra to 50% of the coastline?
World's fluffiest, shyest, most expressive (and worryingly endangered) cat appears in wild photo-shoot.