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

'We're Russian Koreans,' comes the reply.

Heart-wrenching but inspiring story of romance emerges as 96 year old Japanese ex-PoW pens emotional last letter to his dead Russian wife. 

Russians grieving over damage to magical forests surrounding Siberia's jewel.

Girl's 'grandmother holds leash' of child who acts like a dog.

Family find her again after 9 years, now aged 25, some 4,000 km from home, but mother killed herself thinking her daughter was dead.

Think Thailand, and probably schools are not the first thing to come into your head.

Aged 4, she battled through chest-deep snow in minus 24 C to plead with closest neighbours to help her blind grandfather.