Oksana Kizhnerova 'shot at female passenger in car blocking her from overtaking'.
Askar Smagulov, 25, was wounded when attacker 'plunged 10-centimetre blade into his eye socket after late night row over noise'.
Heart-warming story as Anna Lazarenko, 92, gets a new family to care for her after a decade in a retirement home.
Some regions parched, others underwater in latest meteorological surprises.
Flights late on Thursday and on Friday suffered disruption due to smog caused by blazes in dry woodland made vulnerable by the current heat wave.
Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.
'Oldushka' was born out of Siberian creator Igor Gavar striking pictures of 'babushkas' in home city of Omsk.