Church and human rights leaders in Siberia condemn 'abomination' and 'bestial' act.

She pauses for a last look, and then without a backward glance swims across the world's fifth longest river.

Boris Fyodorov, 37, complains it was 'too warm', and now wants to try in minus 60C.

As the world prepares to herald in the arrival of 2015, we look back at the winter celebrations of the Soviet yesteryear.

Puppy cuddled her, helping to keep her alive when she got lost in the Siberian taiga for 11 days and nights.

This week, a second DNA test found she too was swapped as a newborn baby - 22 years earlier - in exactly the same maternity hospital.

Roman Afanasyev, 31, who also held child out of car window driving at speed, sentenced to 300 hours community work as punishment.

'Perfect husband and father' axed, stabbed or strangled full-figured women 'who resembled his mother'.

In 2012, the residents of Tumul all stopped drinking vodka and other intoxicating drinks as the village went dry...