Suspected serial rapist, a wealthy man with wife and two children, charged with 14 sex and blackmail crimes, facing up to 15 years in jail.

Bears are increasingly coming out of the forest in search of food, say wildlife experts.

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

Anton Zhivotov killed one man with fake Jack Daniels but then confessed to police, and crowded funded money to help other victims.

Here are some seasonal pictures as western Siberia gets its debut whiteout of the autumn. 

Nikolay Petshak, 64, who swam from Russia to America, died in ‘accident’ in river where he carried the Olympic flame.

Posing as buyers, security service agents purchased 13 kilograms of deadly explosives - packed in briquettes - around 68,000 roubles - or $2000.