Viktoria Popova from Omsk was fired for posing in a pin-up style photoshoot.
Viktoria Popova, 26, in trouble after her pictures on training course used to advertise clothes shop.
Yana Dobrovolskaya ate carrots and cottage cheese, then stretched herself on horizontal bars, to gain the height needed to enter pageant.
Towering 80 metre monument to 'Christ the Teacher' by Zurab Tsereteli to find home in Russia's Pacific capital.
Deputy premier Dmitry Rogozin looks to Asia as China confirms $5 billion boost for Russian Far East.
Nicknamed the 'Angelina Jolie of Russia', the student says her victory was like a Cinderella fairy tale come true.
Vladimir Putin's supporters beaten in Siberian region.
He emphasised the importance of the economically buoyant Asian-Pacific region as critical to the development of Russia as Western markets stall.
Journalist Kate Baklitskaya today begins an epic 3 month tour of some of Siberia's most iconic places.