After archeologists dug up the ancient mummy - preserved in permafrost - natural disasters were unleashed in Siberia, court told.

Leading expert assesses the risk of 'waking up' this deadly disease currently eradicated, and warns that rising Russian levels of HIV brings a far greater risk.

This week, a second DNA test found she too was swapped as a newborn baby - 22 years earlier - in exactly the same maternity hospital.

Posing as buyers, security service agents purchased 13 kilograms of deadly explosives - packed in briquettes - around 68,000 roubles - or $2000.

A new find of remains of a child aged 8 to 10 dating from around the 5th century AD suggests a sophisticated knowledge of surgical skills. 

Siberian mountaintop lavatory is 'the most extreme toilet in the world'.

Vlada Dzyuba, 14, was dreaming of catwalk stardom, but now her parents 'cannot afford to fly her body home' to bury her.

New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.

Zhirinovsky renews old idea about using east of Russia as a place of punishment.

British band is silenced by Christian group in Novosibirsk.