jails in Siberia

The 152-inmate prison will be in  Yeniseisk, 3218 kilometres east of Moscow, said a senior official.

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

The feminist activist re-appears after 24 days 'lost' on a jail transfer.

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

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

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

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

Husband of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, says her health a 'major concern' after two hunger strikes.

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

When their neighbour died, his cat moved in with a 56-year-old woman from Buryatia and her husband.