Her anti-Putin bandmate Maria Alyokhina was freed earlier from a jail west of the Urals.

He walked 200 kilometres on forest tracks to see his child - but now faces an extra 4 years in prison as punishment.

At least two close encounters with ‘smiley’ and playful animals were filmed in the Far East of Russia.

Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.

Siberian woman sets fire to large haystack in revenge for being blocked on web.

Tsarist inmates and Gulag victims were notoriously transported like cattle in packed carriages. Now it's different, as our pictures show.

Husband upset because she no longer shouted at him even when he came home late - and drunk.

Police launch investigation as woman guard injured and brother-in-law dead but no-one knows who fired the first shots in jail stand-off.

Roman Afanasyev, 31, faces up to 3 years in jail after dangling her out of car window, and posing on rooftop edge clutching child upside down.