Kristina B, 14, and Valeria K, 15, confessed to killing their 'friend' Sofya (Sonya) Potapova after drinking session.
Angara Airlines An-24 loses one engine then hits sewage treatment works and bursts into flames after crew lost control.
With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.
Rising numbers of catwalk models and cover stars come from ‘world’s emerging beauty capital’.
Separated for 10 years after being sent to an orphanage and possibly adopted overseas, Sofia is desperate for information about younger sibling Yuri.
Recent reports showed 89 wildfires in Siberia and 25 in the Russian Far East as a new season of damage to forests gets underway.
At least three are dangerously close to population centres in Irkutsk region.
Running for its life after its mother was killed, two-month-old bear is rescued after stumbling into officers.
Hopes fade of finding 13 people, six weeks after Tyva Avia aircraft went missing in remote and mountainous region.