Prisoner Vitaly Ostrovsky contrived to escape from Butyrskay Prison having jumped over the vertical brick wall 4 and a half meters high and covered with barbed-wire.

Chief architect of the Solikamsk town of the Perm Territory Olga Karapetyan has been shot dead near the entrance of her house.

The famous Russian singer Valentina Tolkunova has passed away today, aged 64, in Moscow. According to tentative data, the death was caused by acute heart failure.

The creator of the movie The Amphibian Man – film director Vladimir Chebotaryov – passed away on Thursday, aged 88, in Moscow.

The smaller wages and growing unemployment rate made the Muscovites tighten their belts – the average daily food consumption reduced by a thousand tonnes in 2009 compared to that of 2008

The well-known Russian bard Victor Luferov died, aged 64, as a result of malignant affection of the lymphatic system.

The well-known actor Yuri Stepanov has died in a car accident in Moscow. His wife has been badly injured and doctors are struggling to save her life.

The famous Russian actor Vladislav Galkin was laid to rest at the Troekurovskoe Cemetery, Moscow on Tuesday.