Firefighter proposes to teacher from top of fire truck steps at her open classroom window.

More than two dozen children in hospital after blunder by medics administering Mantoux tuberculosis test.

In a sign of the times, children are taught 'to love the motherland' after the return of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia.

From the Urals to Pacific people this week joined the rest of Russia in marking the massacre in which 334 were killed. 

Aged 20, he never went to school but is confident he will easily pass university entrance exams.

The Novosibirsk school girl emerges victorious from 300 girls in a contest held in the city.

Kids learn how to tell apart a dog and wolf footprint, to make a LED torch, how a hydraulic unit works, and who a bear wakes first.

Meet the shadow dance sensations on the brink of worldwide stardom and 19 million rouble cheque after taking British TV show by storm.

As western Europe chills in unusually harsh weather, which it blames on Russia (of course!), here’s how we cope with the deep freeze.