Giant sinkhole threatens more homes as it widens each week.
Moscow has opened a preliminary probe into the case of ten year old Yegor Shatabalov's adoption by American citizen Marcia Ann Brandt in 2007.
Monuments to the Bolshevik leader are the key to a new competitive sport called Lenining.
Bones found in 2008 are finally examined and found to belong to a giant monster that roamed the Earth 100 million years ago.
Nicknamed the 'Angelina Jolie of Russia', the student says her victory was like a Cinderella fairy tale come true.
She has lived in the wilderness for 71 years but famous Old Believer faces the cameras to deliver world a message for first time.
An astonishing story of the power of family bonds has seen Galina hold an emotional meeting with her siblings who last saw her as a tiny baby in 1945.
Officials promise to monitor situation after four-fold increase in size since February.
Born in the Siberian taiga, recluse Agafya Lykova is the sole survivor of the Lykov family who cut themselves off from civilisation in 1936.