'Six die' as bridges swept away and 7,600 evacuated after heavy rains.

Here we go back in time and remember 13 remarkable moments of 2013.

Cloning hope after autopsy of 'pet' frozen in permafrost since pre-historic times.

‘Taiga burning’ - as scared bears are driven out of their natural habitat towards settlements where they are shot as danger to people.

Novel approach to help recovery of leopard and tiger numbers in the Russian Far East.

Russian scientists deny theory of respected Italian team by 'proving' that the remote blue lake is older than the famous 1908.

All 17 people he was in contact with - six of them children - are also quarantined to prevent spread of one of world's most deadly infectious diseases.

Gazprom, Transneft, RusHydro, Alrosa and Rosneft all on a list for shift from Moscow to boost the Far East economy.

Government announces $1.8 bln package, while volunteers from all over the wolrd collect more than 450 tonnes of trash from the shoreline of the unique lake.