You’re so funny, Mummy! Polar bear cub ‘laughs’ as it plays with its mother at Russian zoo Kolymana, an eight-year-old mother polar bear, has been photographed ‘laughing’ with one of her cubs Photographer Natalya Okoneshnikova snapped the polar bear and her cub sharing the playful moment Kolymana lives with her two cubs at the Orto-Doydu Zoo in … Read more
Russians have been warned to limit their vodka consumption after receiving the Sputnik V jab, as the country registered the world’s first vaccine for animals. The head of the Gamaleya Research Institute, which created Russia’s coronavirus vaccine, has said Russians should not drink more than one and a half shots of vodka a day if … Read more
Lost polar bear wanders 300 miles from its natural habitat: Animal is seen running south in Russia – further and further from its food source Footage shows the lost predator running in front of a car on a desolate highway It was 300 miles from the Arctic and heading ever further south towards Yakutsk Officials … Read more
Terrifying moment passengers prepare for impact as pilot warns ‘Brace, brace!’ before Boeing-737 suffering tail flap malfunction lands safely in Russia Passengers on a flight from Moscow to Krasnador on Sunday were told to brace for impact after the plane suffered a tail flap malfunction Footage shared online showed distressed passengers leaning down and holding … Read more
Terrifying moment passengers prepare for impact as pilot warns ‘Brace, brace!’ before Boeing-737 suffering tail flap malfunction lands safely in Russia Passengers on a flight from Moscow to Krasnador on Sunday were told to brace for impact after the plane suffered a tail flap malfunction Footage shared online showed distressed passengers leaning down and holding … Read more
Shocking moment five-year-old boy plunges from 12th-floor apartment window but SURVIVES after landing face-first in thick snow CCTV footage shows the boy fall and land face first in snow in Russia He was admitted to hospital and is now stable after having three operations Young boy is believed to have been home alone when he … Read more
She recently revealed her character – Catherine the Great – will be pregnant during the second series of the Hulu drama, The Great. And Elle Fanning covered her character’s blossoming baby bump with a flowing blue satin skirt as she appeared on set for the first time on Wednesday. The actress, 22, was seen shooting … Read more
Shocking moment five-year-old boy plunges from 12th-storey apartment window but SURVIVES after landing face-first in thick snow CCTV footage shows the boy fall and land face first in snow in Russia He was admitted to hospital and is now stable after having three operations Young boy is believed to have been home alone when he … Read more
A wooden statue discovered in Russia in 1890 is more ancient than previously thought, making it twice as old as Stonehenge, researchers claim. The Shigir Idol was first discovered by Russian gold miners who stumbled upon the large object in the Shigir peat bog 62 miles north of Yekaterinburg. Radiocarbon dating from the 1990s placed … Read more
Two former British military chiefs today warned China and Russia will not be worried by the UK’s new defence shake-up as they said troop cuts will mean the Armed Forces are ‘less able to deploy to conflicts at scale’. Lord Richards and Lord Houghton, who both served as chief of the defence staff in the … Read more