Children in the West received gifts from Father Christmas earlier this week, but Russian youngsters still have a few days to wait.
A desperate hunt for six teenagers missing on a Tyva mountain was hampered in poor weather conditions including the threat of new avalanches.
Charred corpses removed from wreckage in Kemerovo with evidence that victims were trapped inside by locked fire doors.
It may seem unusual but sunbathing in snow and wearing nothing more than a swimming costume in -10C can help fitness.
New legislation in Latvia is poised to offer citizenship in the European Union country to the children and grandchildren of its exiles forcibly sent to Siberia.
Parents' nightmare as mystery middle-aged man takes little Vika in Tomsk.
Here we go back in time and remember 13 remarkable moments of 2013.
Famous traveller and film director Nicolas Vanier embarks on a new epic dog sled trip.