The world famous English National Ballet with first soloist Anais Chalendard is to perform in the Sakha Republic for the first time.

Implements or weapons made of quartz and quartzite unearthed among tons of bones under a Siberian village called... Mammoth.

Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.

Helped by a ladder, an axe and a chainsaw.

Its residents will live in a vast man-made 'igloo' to protect them from polar temperatures and some of the most biting winds on the planet.

At least 30,000 homes are hit by flooding in Amur region, with Vladimir Putin ordering more emergency aid to stricken people.

Photographer seeks crowdfunding for trip to this little known natural wonder so remote that almost no pictures exist.