Fears over exploitation of Russian models sent on 'slave labour contracts' without parents to care for them.
From the Urals to Pacific people this week joined the rest of Russia in marking the massacre in which 334 were killed.
Rising numbers of catwalk models and cover stars come from ‘world’s emerging beauty capital’.
Strip searches are routinely carried out to ensure staff do not steal valuable gems at Urals mine.
Police launch investigation as woman guard injured and brother-in-law dead but no-one knows who fired the first shots in jail stand-off.
Low temperatures are a time for fun in -50C and below - riding bikes, ice swimming or eating frozen noodles.
Here we go back in time and remember 13 remarkable moments of 2013.