‘The state can offer them a kind of deal, in which a woman’s sentence is terminated and in case she gives birth during such a “vacation”, the rest of the term is cancelled.’

He previously criticised Putin for allowing a ‘third-ranking’ air force.

An insidious war-time theft has been kept under wraps, until now.

Nothing says a summer holiday quite like a new anti-missile air defence system.

The train – said to be carrying a white powder – was around 130 miles from Moscow when an explosion derailed it

Russian warship, go f*** yourself!