More than five dozen suffer acute intestinal problems from the event at Tyoshchin Yazyk tourist resort in Russia's Sakha Republic.

Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.

The flag they plant on top of the mountain will display all those supporting the project. 

Harry Potter joins Vladimir Lenin in coal-mining Kemerovo.

Anastasia Strashevskaya, 18, from Novosibirsk vows to keep studying as she qualifies for casting for the Miss Russia pageant.

Bikini-clad woman flies in by private helicopter to top up her tan - but now pilot is in trouble.

It was described as a 'v-e-rrry hot day' in fashionable snow resort Sheregesh as 700 women and men (in swim suits) smashed the world record.

Mayor mocked in bikini demonstration over failure to clean streets.