Vessel Stepan Arzhakov ran aground in Lena River after being washed ashore due to strong early morning crosswinds.

Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.

Two buses in collision on highway linking Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

Teenager Arkady Abramovich has secured the $46 million undeveloped Koltogor oil field in western Siberia.

Children from Yakutsk - the coldest city in the world - will start next year's flame relay for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Flipped houses appear in Omsk and Novosibirsk, as an attraction to locals and tourists.

Russian girl Anna, 13, and boy Timofei, 5, rescued from torment by diplomats in Kyrgyzstan after mother's 'murder’.

Temperatures of up to 35C force exodus to river and lake beaches. 

The child victims were aged between 18 months and seven years and perished in a wooden one-storey house in Yelovoye village in Krasnoyarsk region.

Two men died but miraculously more than 100 reach the surface safely.