There are 30 beds in Altai Regional Clinical Children Hospital in Western Siberia, which are never empty.
Kara-ool Dopchun-ool - the highest shaman in the Tuva Republic, and also Turkey - explains his role in his own words.
Anastasia Strashevskaya, 18, from Novosibirsk vows to keep studying as she qualifies for casting for the Miss Russia pageant.
Norman Surplus, 49, is refusing to give up, 15 months after being denied access to Russian airspace to complete is round the world adventure.
Living bacteria found in permafrost - '3.5 million years old' - is 'scientific sensation' which allows 'mice grannies' to reproduce.
Investigation underway into why 'peaceful' bear was shot by police on Sakhalin island, and whether its gallbladder was extracted for black market sale.
Daring criminals intended to walk across frozen lake to take skins and ‘potency cures’ into China.