Alex Croft looks at how Sergei Torop, also known as Vissarion, ended up in jail after he was accused of harming his followers ...

A religious sect leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ has been sentenced to 12 years in a Russian ...

My story began at Baby House No. 1 in Novosibirsk, Russia, one of thousands of children left behind in the wake of the Soviet ...

China has become trendy for Russians who once worshiped everything Western. Young people are learning Mandarin, and Chinese ...

Startup Pyri believes its lightweight fire detectors can give vulnerable communities an invaluable head start in the race to ...

Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic officer and founded the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 after experiencing a ...

He attracted thousands of followers to remote settlements in Siberia, including a core group of about 300 living in isolation atop a hill they called the Abode of Dawn. Russia’s Prosecutor General’s ...

Rather than shrug helplessly over a lack of trust in media, two New Zealand journalists are rolling up their sleeves to ...

Pandas are typically loaned for 10-15 years, to ensure genetic diversity and sustainable captive breeding. China's efforts ...

Thousands were arrested and sent to Siberian labour ... newspaper Chas and a Russian rights activist, said the Latvian Popular Front, which led the fight for independence at the end of the 1980s, ...

The Emperor and Empress are scheduled to visit Mongolia from July 6 to 8 pay their respects to Japanese nationals who died in the country while being interned in a forced labor camp after the end of ...