Blaze and gas explosion near Tyumen kills five children aged under nine years of age.

More than two dozen children in hospital after blunder by medics administering Mantoux tuberculosis test.

Emergency services in major operation with higher toll feared.

Call for severe punishment for parents who leave children to fend for themselves aged under seven.

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

Teachers saved 105 children by leading them out of an exit at the back of the school as a gunman shot at a gym where the youngsters were playing.

A 25 year old woman 'kills her married lover, his wife, and two children' in Tuva republic.

A 13 year old girl is fighting for her life after her friends, two boys and a girl, were struck taking 'deranged' mobile phone picture.