Perm region

A man from Kudymkar in Perm region axed his wife to death while believing that she was a vampire, according to police. 

Desperate rescue efforts failed to pull the men to safety after the earlier rescue of eight subcontractors.

Remains of extinct 'Steppe Mammoth' could bring new leap in understanding of 200,000 year old creatures.

Putin fires top official in Russian Far East, and calls for Investigative Committee to check how authorities performing.

Hope that a 'full skeleton' of Estemmenosuchus uralensis has been located near Ochyor town.

Some 15 massive skulls disovered inside a cave in the Ural Mountains, where the bears went to die in late Pleistocene.

Tsarist inmates and Gulag victims were notoriously transported like cattle in packed carriages. Now it's different, as our pictures show.

Time is running tight as the workers’ individual oxygen kits are about to run out.

A century after their were slain, new hopes of finding the remains of missing royal, who ‘rejected’ his brother Nikolai II’s throne.

In the West they say there's no such thing as a poor lawyer. Not so in Siberia where hundreds went on a day long strike to protest at low pay.