Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'.

In a sign of the times, children are taught 'to love the motherland' after the return of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia.

Expedition from Urals Federal University finds 300 samples of suspected space debris, clues to the history of the universe.

Most northerly palaeolithic site found on Arctic island of Stolbovoy, part of lost continental link between Siberia and Alaska, believe scientists.

A renaissance of one of Siberia's first outposts as the Far North becomes the new economic frontier.

Russian army in battle to erect dikes to hold back the swirling Amur River as evacuations begin in low-lying areas.

Startling new scientific evidence to be reviewed by international experts which - if true - would transform our knowledge of skills and sophistication of early man.

Total of 110,000 tonnes sent to Europe across the new Northern Sea Route.

'Influential businessman' Evgeniy Romanov, 52, avoids jail, despite a host of other 'trophies'.