Aman Tuleyev

Learn to smell the scent of the rouble during your morning shower, demands the head of coal mining Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev.

The coal miners are in hospital after the explosion at Gramoteinskaya pit near town of Belovo in Kemerovo region.

Viktor Gorelov, 66, was kidnapped by armed Syrian rebels on 12 December during a work trip to the strife-torn country.

The wife and child of Rostislav Bardokin suffered smoke inhalation after the family flat was doused with gasoline and set on fire.

Agafya Lykova, 71, airlifted to hospital after suffering 'acute pains' in intense cold at her forest home more than 100 km from nearest town.

Aged 71, she shuns civilisation and accepts a helicopter ride back to her home in remote Siberia, without a gun to protect her from bears.

Nurse Elena is coaled over after receiving 5 tons of coal for shedding 35 kilograms.

Agafya Lykova, 73, lives in home her father built when he secretly fled Stalin's religious persecution, vanishing from world in 1936.