With more than a month still to go in Siberia's annual fire season, more than 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of Yakutia's swampy coniferous taiga has ...

MOSCOW, October 7. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin went for a walk in the Siberian taiga and climbed a mountain ahead of his birthday on Monday. As it was promised earlier by Russian ...

Russian President "plans to spent his birthday in the great outdoors with his family and close friends," Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said MOSCOW, October 6. /TASS/. Russian President ...

Beginning 8,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in the forests of northern Russia built some of the world’s earliest fortified settlements This aerial photograph shows the western Siberian taiga ...

Every documentary could use the Werner Herzog touch. No one makes nonfiction films that are more insightful and more entertaining than the German writer-director. His latest work, “Happy People: A ...

VERKHNECHONSK, Russia (Reuters) - Oil was discovered in 1978 deep under the forest floor in this corner of Eastern Siberia, but the challenges of drilling here were created hundreds of millions of ...

A Russian man spent more than 20 years living as a hermit in the wilderness, hiding from a murder it turns out he didn't commit. Believing he had killed his wife and daughter in a drunken rage, ...

Scientists are analyzing the perfectly preserved remains of a prehistoric horse in a bid to clone the now-extinct animal. Recently discovered in permafrost in the Siberian region of Yakutia, the skin, ...