It may seem unusual but sunbathing in snow and wearing nothing more than a swimming costume in -10C can help fitness.

Vostochny's debut blastoff will be next year, hopefully spring, a delay of at least four months.

Compass failure: aiming for the Caspian Sea, the elegant birds arrive instead on the Tom River in Kemerovo region, and in the Altai Mountains.

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

'If we die, I love you,' says one bather struck by bullet-like giant hail stones.

A Krasnoyarsk man faces up to four years jail for allegedly blocking President Vladimir Putin's website for one hour.

Inside the new Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far East of Russia - exclusive pictures.