Yana Dobrovolskaya ate carrots and cottage cheese, then stretched herself on horizontal bars, to gain the height needed to enter pageant.
London calling for the man whose dark humour surrounding Sochi led to 'censorship'.
New director Andrey Gorban, 47, on the challenges of modernising one of Siberia's favourite zoos, and dealing with his tapir's tantrums.
'Monstration' leader detained by police special forces.
Tatiana Andreeva, 20, has been jailed for 7 years in a controversial case that is becoming a cause celebre on the web.
How people use the extreme cold to 'freeze dry' clothes.
Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.
He is believed to be 20, born in the wild, never went to school, received no vaccinations, and was cut off from civilisation.
Move can boost tourism as free port and pacific capital Vladivostok opens up.