Great Russian mezzo-soprano Elena Obraztsova died on Monday, January 12 at the age of 75 in Germany.

Mikhail Vasechkin from the Bryansk Region has been awarded the Medal for Bravery in Fire.

The animated film director Gennady Sokolsky, aged 78, died in Moscow on Sunday.

The traffic police officer Dmitry Shpak has shielded buses with children with his own car in Nizhnevartovsk.

A fisherman has rescued a man with a child in a snowmobile that fell under ice in Tatarstan.

A local dweller noticed flaming light from a house in Sukkulovo Settlement of the Yermekeyev District.

Russia's billionaire Alisher Usmanov has bought US scientist James Watson's Nobel Prize gold medal at the auction and now intends to return it to its winner.

13-year-old Sergey Smorchkov has saved two people from drowning in icy water in the Pitelino District.

A mischance nearly caused death on the Us River near Syzran in the Samara Region nearly caused death of a resident of the Mezhdurechensk.

1 year-old girl was nearly lost in an inflamed private house in the Vtoraya Klyuchevka Settlement of the Chelyabinsk Region.