'Werewolf' Mikhail Popkov confessed to reign of terror to 'cleanse' streets of prostitutes, yet relatives say he is innocent.

Monster is jailed for life for murdering as many as 60 victims mainly in Moscow's Bitsa Park.

Fur is a way of life in the cold climate, but in a hard-hitting and powerful film she likens the industry to mass wartime killing by fascists.

Communists want Soviet dictator immortalised forever in stone.

Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.

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

Dima ate grass and drank from puddles to survive: he is too traumatised to speak and is covered with ticks and mosquito bites.

The rare predator was caught after weeks of wandering into a village in Russian Far East.

Mushrooms growing on millions of our birch trees are 'promising' for further research, say Siberian scientists.