Across the Russian polar regions, these eye-catching pictures show how thawing soil leads to territories being washed away.

Russian president's flight to Salekhard delayed after airport closed by freezing rain.

Tripling of workers needed to ensure success, says deputy premier Dmitry Rogozin.

This week, a second DNA test found she too was swapped as a newborn baby - 22 years earlier - in exactly the same maternity hospital.

It is as great a nightmare as any parent can face: you love the daughter you have raised, but you suddenly discover she is not yours.

A Moscow scientist is calling for a new scientific expedition to solve the mystery of a huge 'monster'. 

Mikhail Kokorich is a man who can, quite literally, say he is reaching for the stars.

Aware of accounts of mysterious relic reptiles lurking in the deep, here are the first pictures from a record breaking dive.

Once I managed to make the Kremlin inhabitants to talk like human beings. But this time it was a wall far stronger than the Kremlin’s.