All news by author: Will Stewart

Darya Ulyanova, 26, was left in hospital with "severe lacerations" after one of the world's biggest tigers attacked her while she was going to the toilet in a bush in Ussuriysk, in Russia's Far East

The suspected paedophile, who was identified only by the name Sergei, told the two girls - aged 10 and 12 - that he would use a grenade to blow them up if they refused

Albert Umbetyarov died after being locked in a shed that was shut before going up in flames in Dubovaya Roshcha, Moscow region. He was allegedly killed after a dispute with other kids

Former KGB and security boss Nikolai Patrushev told of a 'radioactive cloud' drifting across Europe after Russian strikes hit a uranium supply - the claim has since been debunked as propaganda

Vadim Tekhov killed his ex-wife Regina Gagieva, 22, and the brutal attack was filmed on CCTV, leaving Russia shocked. But after fighting in Ukraine, the murderer has been pardoned by Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a deranged speech at the Council for Interethnic Relations during which he contradicted himself and his "halfwits" joke fell flat

Footage showed how the carriages, believed to be carrying grain, were thrown off the track with eight carriages derailed and five overturned close to the village of Chistenkoye in Crimea which is annexed by Russia

Natalia Arno, head of the Free Russia Foundation, claims she returned to find her hotel door was mysteriously left open and the “smell of cheap perfume” before falling ill

Moscow is enraged by the British supply of missiles but Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said it would “not affect” the course of the war "but will lead to retaliatory actions by the Russian Federation”

A thick cloud of smoke was sent billowing into the skies above the city of Khmelnytskyi in Ukraine as Russia attacked with reported drones including four spotted in the centre

The roof of the ride - holding the chain swings - collapsed as it was operating at top speed in an accident branded "simply unacceptable" by officials in Orenburg, Russia

Dmitry Rogozin - also a former deputy prime minister who is now close to the frontline - made clear Moscow is facing war defeat unless the dictator unleashes his atomic weapons

The site near Skilne, Crimea, is a Federal Security Service [FSB] building used by Russian border guards who control the movement of people in Vladimir Putin's illegally annexed slice of Ukraine

Yakov Maiboroda and his wife Anastasia have been detained after being accused of dismembering their newborn baby following a domestic dispute at their flat in southern Russia

Alina Kabaeva, the dictator’s 39-year-old long-time mistress has traditionally preferred to hide away in Switzerland where she gave birth to one of his children in 2015, say reports

Regional governor Alexander Bogomaz: "An unidentified explosive device went off in the Unechsky district….on the Bryansk-Unecha railway" as some predict Ukraine are behind it

There are fears Anastasia Chernysheva, 22, will face jail over her “anti-Vladimir Putin confectionary" after her home was raided and she was detained in

Timur Ivanov and Svetlana Maniovich allegedly had a “pre-emptive” divorce last summer, allowing Ms Maniovich to dodge the EU sanctions that were later applied to her husband

The bomb was dropped on Belgorod, Russia, by a Su-34 supersonic fighter-bomber jet near the Ukrainian border injuring two women and causing devastation in a humiliation for Vladimir Putin

Rumours of Vladimir Putin suffering a temporary "nervous breakdown" came amid speculation he used a body double to represent him while visiting high-ranking Russian generals in Ukraine

Footage shows a scar-like mark running diagonally across Vladimir Putin's throat as the Kremlin leader attended an Orthodox Easter cathedral service in Moscow, Russia, last weekend

Alexei Navalny received a knee blow to the groin after refusing to enter his cell when an unwashed homeless man was put there by prison warders, his lawyer said

Russian president Vladimir Putin sent two nuclear bombers nicknamed 'Bears' over the Bering and Okhotsk seas as tensions with the West continue over the war in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the command post for Russian forces in the southern Kherson region of Ukraine - he arrived by helicopter to meet military leaders

Vladimir Putin's army used incendiary thermite shells overnight as the Kremlin leader 'demands Bakhmut is taken by end of month' in his ongoing invasion of Ukraine