Man detained after schoolgirls revealed they 'were forced to have sex with him during almost five years' until one victim confided the alleged abuse to teachers.

Disgraced Svetlana Parchaikina, 42, verbally abuses small child taken into care from a family unable to cope with raising him.

A 'month of silence' in Kronotsky Nature Reserve allows the world's largest protected population of brown bears to do what comes naturally, undisturbed.

Extinct in the UK, and on the retreat in western Europe and Scandinavia, the species if prolific this summer in Tomsk and Novosibirsk.

Luciya wrongly given by maternity hospital to family in which she had to beg for food. 

When Darina was born 3 years ago without lips and a chin, her mother lost consciousness from shock, and soon her family disowned the child.