The People’ Artist of Russia, animated film director, creator of the popular animation 38 Parrots Ivan Ufimtsev died on Tuesday, aged 82, in Moscow.

The Russian Mir-2 mini-sub has found several shiny metal objects on the bottom of Lake Baikal that could be the legendary Tsarist gold lost during the Russian Civil War.

A blaze killed nine people at a Russian nursing home in Vishny Volochek, 200 kilometres north of Moscow on Monday. Investigators say it apparently started when an elderly resident doused himself in gasoline and set himself on fire.

Tamara Shatirova - a well-known circus performer, gymnast, trainer, and director of the Moscow circus Raduga - has died in Moscow at the age of 68.

Last Sunday at 8 pm about a hundred skinheads armed with bludgeons and traumatic pistols broke into the festival Tornado in Miass.

The president of Russia's Sakha (Yakutia) republic declared Tuesday to be a day of mourning for the victims of the tugboat sinking in the Laptev Sea.

The pollutant concentration in Moscow's air due to fires raging in nearby regions increased on Wednesday by 50%, exceeding tenfold the normal levels in the capital.

On Friday morning the camp of green defenders of the Khimki Forest was invaded by around 100 unknown people wearing masks, who attacked the ecologists.

Green activists defending Khimki Forest near Moscow from the would-be highway Moscow-St. Petersburg that is to run through the woodland have built barricades on the way of lumbermen.

Russian tennis player Vera Zvonareva, 25, from Moscow, gets to Wimbledon semifinal first time in her career after having defeated famous Belgian Kim Klijsters in the quarterfinal in three sets 3:6 6:4 6:2.