Inmate making substitutes for imported goods will see penal colonies produce output worth 500 million roubles.

Former major who previously claimed dog food was fed to soldiers given jail sentence for beating up handcuffed soldier who had deserted ranks.

Former wife speaks of her and daughter's 'miracle' escape as investigators reveal how he admitted to killing a sex worker.

Acquittal of Dmitry Loshagin, 39, is reversed in sensational Yekaterinburg verdict.

They ran over bear 8 times with Pajero, then kicked it, but angry animal escaped and tried to kill them.

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

Faced with loans and unpaid alimony for daughter, Vyacheslav took flight and now blogs about his escape from financial problems.

A shocking new trend has hit Siberia: men murdering the girlfriends who spurn them.

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

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