Tuim Hole first appeared 62 years ago and has sheer 120 metre cliffs reaching down to its deep turquoise waters.

Ekaterina and Yulia popularise yoga in Tynda but taking it into the great outdoors.

Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.

Intriguing evidence from well-preserved calf Yuka of ‘cobra hood-shaped bulge’ on trunk that is absent in modern elephants

Mitrofan Tretryakov, 69, was badly wounded, but managed to call rescuers as the predator escaped.

Proceeds of a sale of a stake in Alrosa diamond giant will benefit local people, vows governor.

Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.

Chained to a tree and bitten, five-year-old Masha is used as bait to hone skills in a competition to find the best hunter.