Honour in Yakutia to Karina Chikitova, who - at the age of 4 - survived 12 days and nights alone in the Siberian wilderness.

Police seeking to unravel 'murky' truth in blame game over what went wrong.

Anastasia Strashevskaya, 18, from Novosibirsk vows to keep studying as she qualifies for casting for the Miss Russia pageant.

There are movies made about the girls performing at the Paralympic Games and the parents who adopted them. But no one notices them in Russia.

From levitating grass houses to kindergartens made of cheese and containers that heat themselves via text message... welcome to the future.

A methane explosion at  Mine No. 7 in the Prokopyevsky district of Kemerovo region led to the deaths of four miners.

'Six die' as bridges swept away and 7,600 evacuated after heavy rains.

Miracle survival for Liza Grabovskaya in temperatures of minus 12C, lost for 24 hours.