Her anti-Putin bandmate Maria Alyokhina was freed earlier from a jail west of the Urals.

Jessica Long is pleading with the Russian authorities to reverse the new ban on children being adopted to America, which came into force on January 1.

Anton Zhivotov killed one man with fake Jack Daniels but then confessed to police, and crowded funded money to help other victims.

Four months old female in a 'serious but stable condition' in Russian Far East. 

Russian officials claimed little orphan Maxim Kuzmin suffered an appalling death after being adopted to the US. 

Tsarist inmates and Gulag victims were notoriously transported like cattle in packed carriages. Now it's different, as our pictures show.

Alleged poachers detained after killing animal on Vaygach Island, amid fears up to 15 are illegally shot each year.

'Influential businessman' Evgeniy Romanov, 52, avoids jail, despite a host of other 'trophies'.

Russia’s worst-ever serial killer convicted today for raping and murdering 56 more women.