Siberian tycoon is behind new $44 million franchise agreement with McDonald's.
Pictures show 1,835 men, women and children 'smash record' in the Siberian sun.
Jessica Long is pleading with the Russian authorities to reverse the new ban on children being adopted to America, which came into force on January 1.
Two men died but miraculously more than 100 reach the surface safely.
One child sends chilling video message home from inferno: ‘Mum, we’ve got a problem here.’
Latest addition to English peasant farmer Michael Ware's family enjoys her first Russian winter.
It takes truly extreme cold for Yakutian students to miss out on their classes: but the big freeze has arrived (except in Chersky).
Antidote to gloomy news in the world as 1,525 wear swimsuits for annual Siberian snow festival.
The pink bird was 5,330 kilometres off course when it landed in subzero Krasnoyarsk region.