Retired paratrooper aged 102 keeps secret how he cast his ballot in Tyumen.
Preserved by ice, the 25 year old ancient woman covered in tattoos used cannabis to cope with her ravaging illness.
Discovery of blood in creature frozen for 43,000 years is seen as major breakthrough by international team.
Vlada Dzyuba, 14, was dreaming of catwalk stardom, but now her parents 'cannot afford to fly her body home' to bury her.
Oldest torchbearer of any Olympic relay, he had lost his father in the Siege of Leningrad.
Salmon dishes were a firm favourite on the lower Amur River, while meat was on menu upstream.
Feeling ill during foreign assignment, she was sent alone on 300 km train journey less than 48 hours before she died of serious blood infection.