Deadly pesticide used to kill zoo big cat prompting demands for punishment and claims of cover-up.

Aim to double annual bilateral trade to $10 billion by 2016.

Fears for the cheese industry in Omsk as investigation starts into shocking images of bathing session by male workers.

Police say they suspect suicide of 32 year old from Yakutsk despite seven stab wounds to his chest and gashes on his arm. 

Valery Malkov from Bratsk, Irkutsk region, was wearing only a T-shirt, shorts and slippers.

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.

Ice swimmers from team 'Morozhenki' (Ice-creams) in Vladivostok enjoy their own cold war, and insist it is healthy.

More than 130billion roubles invested in special gambling zone to lure wealthy Asian tourists to Russia, complete with its own beach, marina and ski area.

Think Thailand, and probably schools are not the first thing to come into your head.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is in talks about a groundbreaking scheme.