Olga Kurochkina earlier appealed to Vladimir Putin to force the authorities to check if her husband was killed by cannibals. 

Alleged to have embezzled four million roubles, video of arrest shows him driving diamond-encrusted Mercedes.

Couple 'had a row' before their heads 'almost blown off by a grenade', say reports.

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

A 60 year old man has been diagnosed with the infection after a street brawl led to bloody wounds.

Paws were attached to underside of carriage in Zabaikalsk region.

Some 39 convicts wounded their own arms and shoulders in the mutiny at Prison number 3 in Irkutsk.

Communists want Soviet dictator immortalised forever in stone.

The predator ran along the shore then swam out towards the boat, but posed no threat when killed with a single rifle shot to the head.