'We can't stand by a watch this lawlessness', insist men travelling on five-day 3,900km journey to take up arms in Novorossiya.
It was described as a 'v-e-rrry hot day' in fashionable snow resort Sheregesh as 700 women and men (in swim suits) smashed the world record.
Wearing scuba gear and hovering upside-down below the frozen surface, can there be any more extreme sport?
It was 50 years ago on Sunday that Valentina Tereshkova made history blasting off into space, the first female in orbit.
The American fast food chain is on the way into the largest (populated) Big Mac-free territory on the globe: but do the locals want it?
Pipeline will go through pristine Altai Mountains in supply route seen as economically vital by Kremlin.
Ecologists from several countries lost battle to poachers who caught an endangered dark-feathered bird.
He is believed to be 20, born in the wild, never went to school, received no vaccinations, and was cut off from civilisation.