'Spy plane' was monitoring Siberia under Open Skies treaty aimed at reducing tension after Cold War.
Tsarist inmates and Gulag victims were notoriously transported like cattle in packed carriages. Now it's different, as our pictures show.
Female 'criminal' from Siberia finally to face justice after 18 years on the run.
Meet the woman who says: 'I will always be there for my maniac'.
The rare predator was caught after weeks of wandering into a village in Russian Far East.
Even Russia's Health Minister is on antibiotics after visiting victims of the deadly infection as numbers of infected rise.
Venison exports will 'increase' despite first anthrax outbreak in 70 years, but scientists remain adamant: Herd numbers must fall further.
A century after their were slain, new hopes of finding the remains of missing royal, who ‘rejected’ his brother Nikolai II’s throne.