Amur leopards now number more than 100 for first time in decades, say experts.

How horseracing and equestrian culture is developing in the Sakha Republic.

The remarkable rescue and evacuation effort was needed because of a severe break-up in the ice sheet due to global warming.

Virologist Dr Vladimir Blinov fears comeback of flu strain which cost two million lives in 1957.

As well as her amazing 'modern' footwear, this Mongolian 'seamstress' went to the afterlife with four changes of clothes, her sewing kit, a horse and a ram's head.

The Russian government has ordered the evacuation of North Pole-40 Arctic Station.

Russia’s coldest region struggles to tame fires intensified by lengthy heatwave in extreme north.

New technology to be tested on heating stations in eastern Russia.

Alexander Chepurnov had already recovered once when he re-infected himself in an experiment.