This vast region has some of the world's greatest rivers, but they could do much more to support the economic regeneration and security of the country.

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

I am able to compare the two, and my conclusion is that there doesn’t seem to be any difference.

Now aged 71, Ted Kohner, son of Chaliapin's daughter Tatiana, is making his first visit from the US to the motherland of his iconic opera singer grandfather.

Monument to Kate Marsden unveiled in Sosnovka village 123 years after she set out on her epic work.

As soon as a Honda fell through the ice, locals were preparing to use an age-old system to pull it out.

'We can't stand by a watch this lawlessness', insist men travelling on five-day 3,900km journey to take up arms in Novorossiya.

Stranded on Teletskoye Lake in the Altai Mountains, bird's only hope of survival is to be caught and put in a zoo.