Project to be unveiled at 4th Eastern Economic Forum next month and likely to contain laboratories sunk into the permafrost.

Separately, 18 frozen bear paws hidden in coal cargo train nabbed by customs.

Arctic permafrost is degrading much faster than expected, warn scientists from the extreme north of Yakutia.

The two fled on foot in minus 35C rather than stay with the men in remote hut in the taiga in Sakha Republic.

But is climate change to blame, or local officials who went on vacation instead of fighting fires?

A desperate rescue mission saved four people - but up to 24 are feared dead in the air tragedy in the Sakha Republic. 

Travel for the first time by train to Russia's diamond capital, the coldest city in the world!

Leading expert assesses the risk of 'waking up' this deadly disease currently eradicated, and warns that rising Russian levels of HIV brings a far greater risk.

Russia's coldest region is up to 20C milder than average this month, say meteorologists.