The Bryansk Forest Reserve has launched a project aimed at reviving the population of the speckled ground squirrel, which is listed in the Red Book of Russia. Aleksander Nikitenkov, Director of the ...

A startling encounter with a brown bear may not typically lead to a political ... such an incident has indeed paved his path to becoming the Russian president's special assistant.

A hybrid of a brown and a polar bear may develop in Yakutia's north ... Director of the Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone (the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch ...