Pet saves helpless child's life acting as surrogate parent in temperatures averaging minus 12C.

The anti-Kremlin campaigner will serve remaining time in jail clinic in Siberia.

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.

Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.

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

Prisoners proudly growing vines in Kolyma where the average annual temperature is minus 3C.

Notorious former prison opens hostel for guests complete with solitary confinement and mandatory gruel.

The former paratrooper, who butchered migrant workers, 'lived in the forest' since tunnelling his way to freedom.

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