Grandfather Egor Tarasov's 'miraculous' survival story of 42 days alone in the tundra with polar and brown bears, and wolves.

This animal and its lost mother wandered some 700 km too far south 'because they couldn't go north' and got confused.

Four children among those in intensive care, as locals undergo mass evacuation and quarantining, while reindeer herd decimated.

The pink bird was 5,330 kilometres off course when it landed in subzero Krasnoyarsk region.

Cornered by local dogs, the animal 'growled' before rescuers saved it.

Moments later he is filmed running at top speed when the beast attacks.

Projects in Buryatia underway despite warnings of a crisis in pollution in world's deepest lake.

Vadim Klabukov, 23, paid with his life after flouting safety rules when he went to retrieve lost backpack in South Kamchatka nature reserve.