The Russian Duma is seriously considering putting a slow end to the dolphin and whale display industry.

This creative conservation project benefits both the endangered snow leopards in the Altai region and local farmers and their livestock.

Unusually warm weather brings bright yellow blossoms to the region much earlier than normal.

Eight little penguin chicks make for one very lucky aquarium in Russia's Far East. 

It’s plain sailing for the Russian Federation along the Northern Sea Route, thanks to melting ice caps.

With abnormally cold weather in Yakutsk, Russian TV news channels have been promoting the city's Kingdom of Permafrost and annual ice sculpture competition.

Pack your bikinis and speedos: it's time for Russian winter!

Our intrepid Far Eastern explorer gets it into his head to trek through uninhabited wilds in order to ascend his region’s tallest peak. Not all goes to plan.

Russian scientists are researching the cause of a massive die-off of marine life off the coast of Kamchatka in October.

Russia has everything, including Shrek's house.

This week, we've got brand-new guns, poachers from an unlikely place, and the frozen north gets an internet connection.

This week, Putin gets a cool new birthday present; an official broadcasts his workout regimen; and strange sediment puzzles scientists.