Pro-Vladimir Putin demos one year on from the Kiev uprising.
Travel for the first time by train to Russia's diamond capital, the coldest city in the world!
She pauses for a last look, and then without a backward glance swims across the world's fifth longest river.
Businessman Vladislav Doronin - former partner of model Naomi Campbell - to deliver the award.
Notorious former prison opens hostel for guests complete with solitary confinement and mandatory gruel.
The Russian president has turned to his close ally Sergei Shoigu, former Emergencies Minister, after the Defence Minister was engulfed in a corruption scandal.
PM Medvedev was ordered to 'reprimand' Regional Development Minister Oleg Govorun for the slow pace of proposals to boost the east of the country.
Quality of life in booming oil capital Tyumen is better than that in Moscow or St Petersburg, says financial survey.
Place your bets as Russia takes on Macau and Las Vegas to woo Pacific gamblers.