Grand Duke Georgy Romanov will now promote Russian business in the EU.

Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one. 

Centre is one of only two repositories in the world of smallpox virus, and a key hub of research into the planet's deadliest diseases.

Young tigress died from 'prolonged hypothermia and exhaustion' after fears mother was shot by poachers.

Tycoon Viktor Kharitonin becomes major world player with 4 billion ruble deal to rescue German Grand Prix circuit

Tattooed 2,500-year-old princess found mummified and preserved in permafrost could finally be reburied in special monument.

This was the generic response over the past year when I've told people about my plans to run in this Sunday's Siberian International Marathon.

Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.