Or were they 'murdered by creditors' after failing to pay back loans in economic crisis?

Findings pave the way for a 1.2 million square kilometre claim to the UN on hydrocarbon drilling rights.

Scientists say a 'fountain of gas' poured from jelly-like trembling earth in tundra on Belyy Island in northern Siberia.

There won't by any other Russian idea or brand, or anything from Russia that would be as sellable as Russian Winter.

Young women queue to be painted by 20 year old body artist Pavel Dorofeev aka Pasha Znag.

Sketch sells for 990,000 roubles at New York charity auction alongside rare items belonging to Hollywood superstars.

Rodents also 'put in bottles and thrown to audience', claim protesters.

Warning of methane blasts in Kara Sea adjacent to Yamal craters caused by gas eruptions associated with melting permafrost due to global warming.

Local reindeer herder witnessed the tundra explosion that led to birth of new hole in river.