Tearful plea on president's televised call-in leads to promise to overcome carnage in Khakassia and Chita.

Husband watches as wife is carried away by fast moving mud river after major flooding.

Fire eliminated at Urengoyskoye field after three and half hour battle.

Aged 68, she has never seen a town - and refused a helicopter ride to hospital.

Forlorn polar bear named Umka turned up at a Russian police station as if pleading for help: now he is back where he belongs.

From the Pacific in the east, to the Urals in the west, hardy Russians display their religious feelings - and bravery.

Two buses in collision on highway linking Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

Friends watched as ex-president's son tried and failed to break ice with his head after his car sank in freezing waters.

Thrown in as a puppy, the mongrel grew too large to escape through a tiny hole through which local residents gave her food and water.