New law authorises the killing of 481 bears in 2024, more than twice last year’s total of 220, amid outcry over attack.

With only 200,000 brown bears remaining worldwide, their fate hangs in the balance. Russia has about 120,000 brown bears ...

The news comes a day after a 31-year-old Belarussian woman apparently fell to her death trying to escape a brown bear in the nearby ... which stretches up from Romania through western Ukraine ...