Likely from the Okunev culture, might this mysterious ancient figurine with the angry face be a children's 'rattle', to ward off evil spirits? 

Pedal power challenge as the Red Bull Trans-Siberian Extreme ultra-stage bicycle race heads from Moscow to Vladivostok.

A preliminary criminal probe has been opened in Moscow amid allegations that the boy Yegor Shatabalov- now aged ten- was adopted under false pretences.

Cache of White Army weapons used in Russian Civil War seized by police who destroyed 'dangerous' grenades and ammunition.

'I've got to talk to my British colleague,' said the Russian president as he left a key fuel and energy session to take the phone call.

A future international tourist bonanza is being brewed on the historic Great Tea Road.

DNA 'tests' of hair supposedly from a Yeti in a Siberian cave show it comes from an unknown mammal closely related to man, it was claimed last night.

Agafya Lykova, 73, lives in home her father built when he secretly fled Stalin's religious persecution, vanishing from world in 1936.

Police called to house after owners woken up by loud meowing.