A preliminary criminal probe has been opened in Moscow amid allegations that the boy Yegor Shatabalov- now aged ten- was adopted under false pretences.
This week, a second DNA test found she too was swapped as a newborn baby - 22 years earlier - in exactly the same maternity hospital.
She pauses for a last look, and then without a backward glance swims across the world's fifth longest river.
Born without lips and chin, disowned by her family, she is to see one of Britain’s top surgeons in the hope that she can finally smile.
Krasnoyarsk's skies have been black since the start of the New Year, with locals complaining of 'chemical smell', lack of oxygen.
A day of mourning will be held on Thursday for the victims of a fatal five metre high avalanche that struck a group of seven teenagers.
New computer model of Ipatiev House lets you wander around the residence where the Romanov dynasty was obliterated.
Tomsk honours the memory of the child and police hunt the vicious killer.
Kissing and hugging to survive, hallucinations, fearing their 4 children would be orphans, giving up, cuddling in the Arctic snow to die...then a miracle.
New director Andrey Gorban, 47, on the challenges of modernising one of Siberia's favourite zoos, and dealing with his tapir's tantrums.