Professional sportsman Vitalyi Slobodinyk, 33, filmed as he is towed on a rope by a car in 'life threatening' escapade.

With forest fires still burning across Siberia, hot summer temperatures are moving across the continent.

This year sees the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov, the Russian royal family thrown on the scrapheap of history in 1917.

New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.

Law enforcement officers sought to 'force confessions from students' in case of US citizen Colin Madsen, found dead in Buryatia.

Excitement in console world as preview shows heroine Lara Croft fighting off bears and exploring snowy steppe in latest outing.

Mysterious 'gigantic' hole in remote region spotted by helicopters over gas-rich Yamal peninsula.

Boris Fyodorov, 37, complains it was 'too warm', and now wants to try in minus 60C.

Four children among those in intensive care, as locals undergo mass evacuation and quarantining, while reindeer herd decimated.