Supplies to EU maintained despite mega-blast with flames 200 metres in the sky, and heat felt 1km from fireball.

With oil prices so high, people might sympathise with the man who dug a 60 metre tunnel to obtain his own supply.

Daring criminals intended to walk across frozen lake to take skins and ‘potency cures’ into China.

Official's daughter ploughed onto pavement at high speed and was sentenced to prison but now walks free under Kremlin amnesty.

Girl died from multiple stab wounds after he invited her to his birthday party.

Rampaging knifeman is shot dead by security services after shocking incident in oil city Surgut.

FSB say Konstantin Zhuravlyov, 35, is now back with his family in Tomsk after being held as a 'spy' by Syrian opposition.

Anatoly Zemlyanka, 28, came from 'normal' family in Noyabrsk, and was into Thai boxing and karate.

For quarter of a century he waited for police to come for him, convinced - wrongly - he had murdered girlfriend and her daughter in knife attack.