Leading expert assesses the risk of 'waking up' this deadly disease currently eradicated, and warns that rising Russian levels of HIV brings a far greater risk.

'I cry and say thank you to the Russians that they welcomed us so warmly'.

Monster is jailed for life for murdering as many as 60 victims mainly in Moscow's Bitsa Park.

Gunman wore a jacket emblazoned with a fascist swastika as he killed two and injured six.

Meet our unique Siberian love child, a female cross between a lion and a tigress, and the undisputed star of Novosibirsk Zoo.

A desperate hunt for six teenagers missing on a Tyva mountain was hampered in poor weather conditions including the threat of new avalanches. 

Among the dead were 186 children, killed in a 3-day terrorist outrage that we must never, ever forget.