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More than two dozen children in hospital after blunder by medics administering Mantoux tuberculosis test.

Call for severe punishment for parents who leave children to fend for themselves aged under seven.

Emergency services in major operation with higher toll feared.

Children from Yakutsk - the coldest city in the world - will start next year's flame relay for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Jessica Long is pleading with the Russian authorities to reverse the new ban on children being adopted to America, which came into force on January 1.

Clocks change for the final time, except in Kemerovo, Kamchatka and Chukotka. Confused?

2,500 adults, 623 children so far vaccinated in the Republic of Tuva to prevent flea-spreading of the decease.

At least three are dangerously close to population centres in Irkutsk region.