A Russian woman has been found guilty of killing her newborn baby and keeping its body for five years in a freezer.

A court in Arkhangelsk in northern Russia established that 37-year-old Lyudmila Smi

Huge flames danced for hours on the top floors of an under-construction Moscow skyscraper that is to be Europe's tallest, lighting up the night sky Monday. No injuries were reported in the blaze.

The

Twelve people died on Tuesday when a night time fire tore through a two-story Moscow market warehouse that was being used by migrant workers from a former Soviet republic as a temporary residence.

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A twin-engine ATR-72 plane with 43 people aboard has crashed in Siberia, the emergency situations ministry said Monday.

"The plane took off from Roschino airport, near Tyumen, towards Surgut (also in

Thirty-two people were killed on Monday when a passenger plane crashed moments after takeoff in an oil-rich region of Siberia in the latest accident to strike Russia's crisis-prone aviation industry.

A total of 675 fishermen stranded on a block of floating ice off Russia's far eastern region were rescued on Sunday.

The ice was located near Vzmoriye off Sakhalin Island. The fishermen were saved us

Russian police have arrested a man who admitted killing at least six people before eating their hearts and livers, media said.

Dubbed the ‘cannibal serial killer’, Alexander Bychkov wrote in a diary

A Russian prisoner who last week fled his penal colony in a helicopter had freely arranged his jail break over the Internet and using mobile phones, investigators said Wednesday.

Alexei Shestakov had

Setting aside fears for a new arms race with the United States or the conflict in Syria, President Dmitry Medvedev took to Twitter on Wednesday to reassure Russia on another burning issue -- the wellb

Kazakhstan has called the playing of a spoof of its national anthem at an international sporting event ‘a scandal’ and demanded an investigation of the incident.

Maria Dmitrienko won a gold medal for