Leonid Durkin, 30, shows how easy it is to vanish while living near to people.

At least eight black bears killed in terrorised Luchegorsk as starving wild animals roam streets and go on the attack. 

Parents' nightmare as mystery middle-aged man takes little Vika in Tomsk.

Nowhere in the world runs its roads, trains and airports as well as Siberia during the harsh winters.

Mother in heart-rending nationwide appeal to find loving mother and father she can trust to raise her boy when she is gone.

Meet the woman who says: 'I will always be there for my maniac'.

Yana Tamocheva became lost while picking berries with her mother in Krasnoyarsk region.

But notorious 'chessboard murderer' was 'ditched by his prospective bride' though he refuses to believe he was dumped.

Patient breaks out of hospital wearing only a bed sheet in search of his favourite brew, seemingly oblivious to an outside temperature of minus 16C.