Teachers saved 105 children by leading them out of an exit at the back of the school as a gunman shot at a gym where the youngsters were playing.
Truck rammed train from Black Sea to Nizhnevartovsk full of holidaymakers returning from Sochi.
When the temperature dips to minus 30C in Tobolsk, kids are allowed a day off school.
Tourist chiefs in Thailand have stressed the importance to them of visitors from the eastern regions of Russia.
Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.
As temperatures sunk to minus 50C and below, schools and kindergartens were closed for the world's hardiest children.
Russian girl Anna, 13, and boy Timofei, 5, rescued from torment by diplomats in Kyrgyzstan after mother's 'murder’.
A 13 year old girl is fighting for her life after her friends, two boys and a girl, were struck taking 'deranged' mobile phone picture.
A daily bucket of icy water poured over the head 'helps block winter illnesses, and makes children optimistic'.
The Australian travel company is revolutionising the image of Siberia in the outside world.