A preliminary criminal probe has been opened in Moscow amid allegations that the boy Yegor Shatabalov- now aged ten- was adopted under false pretences.

He is believed to be 20, born in the wild, never went to school, received no vaccinations, and was cut off from civilisation.

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

Tsar's daughter may, after all, have escaped the execution which wiped out the royal family, says new book.

Unique research station in the remote taiga is used by scientists worldwide to measure if man is behind climate change.

'We're Russian Koreans,' comes the reply.

Agafya Lykova, 73, lives in home her father built when he secretly fled Stalin's religious persecution, vanishing from world in 1936.

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