Petition fails to ban kids' championship as an event involving sex abuse or encouraging 'child striptease'.

Dmitry Loshagin held for year and a half after remains of naked wife Yulia, 28, found in woods.

Court rules there is no case to answer for 73-year-old who helped cancer sufferer.

The shooter was invited to make a peace deal with his opponent minutes before the attack.

Panning to be legalised in former GULAG region in bid to crackdown on black market.

Neglected by her parents as well as a 'stepfather from hell': Will no-one help this teenager stranded 6,000 miles from home?

Anatoliy Trapko, 28, attempted to rape the girl, and killed her after he failed because of 'sexual problems', say police.

Meet the woman who says: 'I will always be there for my maniac'.

Tatiana Andreeva, 20, has been jailed for 7 years in a controversial case that is becoming a cause celebre on the web.

A judge in the Russian Far East slept during a case in his court before locking up a man for five years in jail, it is claimed.