A couple cowered in their banya - sauna - watching the hungry creature eat their dinner.

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.

Latest addition to English peasant farmer Michael Ware's family enjoys her first Russian winter.

Ivan and Lubov Leshchenko keep the animals in the backyard of their village of Dubovy Kliuch - Oak key - in the Far East of Russia.

Couple 'had a row' before their heads 'almost blown off by a grenade', say reports.

Stray dog leads his friend around the forest tracks near Surgut.

Big cat had preyed on domestic dogs in Russia and China, but will now be mated with older tigress Prima in Rostov.

In distant times, parts of California and Hawaii were administered from the city of Irkutsk.