Divers brave minus 45C to place a 'New Year Tree' beneath the ice on bed of the mighty Lena River.
US swimming star hugs the woman who gave her up as disabled child.
A methane explosion ripped through the pit in Kemerovo region - but 101 safely escaped to the surface.
Heart-warming story as Anna Lazarenko, 92, gets a new family to care for her after a decade in a retirement home.
Award-winning director Janusz Zaorski says members of his family were sent into exile in the east of Russia during the war years.
Blaze and gas explosion near Tyumen kills five children aged under nine years of age.
Two year old Lemon takes the bucket to the well, fills it up from the pump and carries it back home.
Award-winning director and screenwriter Janusz Zaorski says members of his own family were sent into exile in the east of Russia during the war years.
Cl-awful row between splitting couple over Frik and Shoks.
Harry Potter joins Vladimir Lenin in coal-mining Kemerovo.