Curbs will stop foreigners working in schools, as drivers on passenger transport, or in children's food production.

All public events cancelled, extra protection for children as they go to kindergarten and school.

Seasonal greetings from the east of Russia where there are no less than seven different Father Christmas figures to bring joy to children in winter. 

But it could have been so different if mother Anastasia had followed doctors advice…

The child victims were aged between 18 months and seven years and perished in a wooden one-storey house in Yelovoye village in Krasnoyarsk region.

Anastasia Strashevskaya, 18, from Novosibirsk vows to keep studying as she qualifies for casting for the Miss Russia pageant.

Seasonal greetings to all parts of the world marking Christmas Day on 25 December, even though we have to wait a little longer!

The second largest city of the Russian Far East faces nervous hours and days to see if its dikes hold back the deluge.

Retired paratrooper aged 102 keeps secret how he cast his ballot in Tyumen.