Another success in major operation to clamp down on illegal batches of luxury food during fishing season in Siberia.

Earlier reports suggested organised gangs seek to sell gyrfalcons on the black market for as much as $50,000 each. 

Russian photographer writes about a volcanic eruption at Tolbachik, seen by the Soviets as the most lunar place on the planet.

Beast was seen daily on roadside begging for food from humans, but he fell for a cabbage pie bait and was returned to wild.

Grigory Akhara, 21, was unconscious but alive when driver Ulyana Lobanova, 30, and her foul-mouthed husband Roman, 42, refused to back-up.

Aircraft had been flying as part of a test flight following an engine change when it came down.

The senior politician called for a change of identity for the vast eastern third of Russia, as the country angles itself towards Asia.

Geysers, active volcanoes, thermal lakes, mountains, Pleistocene glaciers, cascading rivers... and a lot of bears! 

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