When Darina was born 3 years ago without lips and a chin, her mother lost consciousness from shock, and soon her family disowned the child.
Charting wonderful friendships and shedding light on a region little known and understood by the West, James dreams of a best-seller with his travel memoirs.
She has lived in the wilderness for 71 years but famous Old Believer faces the cameras to deliver world a message for first time.
Children aged 7 to 11 miss classes, but older students still expected to attend.
First sighting of the year of Bigfoot in Siberia.
Bear gets stuck after raiding kitchen in village house for food.
Two year old Lemon takes the bucket to the well, fills it up from the pump and carries it back home.
As a debate is underway on culling as many as 250,000 reindeer due to overgrazing, Research Professor Bruce C Forbes warns against some proposed solutions.
Andrey Medvedev, 20, and Alexander Grunenko, 15, met the fearsome beast when they were collecting wild garlic in Kemerovo region.