Feeling ill during foreign assignment, she was sent alone on 300 km train journey less than 48 hours before she died of serious blood infection.
Rising numbers of catwalk models and cover stars come from ‘world’s emerging beauty capital’.
Viktoria Popova, 26, in trouble after her pictures on training course used to advertise clothes shop.
Nicknamed the 'Angelina Jolie of Russia', the student says her victory was like a Cinderella fairy tale come true.
Scientists give startling theory for 1908 Tunguska Event in Siberia which had force of 185 Hiroshima bombs.
Here we go back in time and remember 13 remarkable moments of 2013.
Russian number one admits pride when announcers say she hails from the remote oil town of Nyagan.