| January 2012 |
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A 90-year-old doctor in Russia’s central Nizhny Novgorod region may receive a seven-year jail term for accepting gifts from her patients, RIA Novosti reported.
As if in a nod to Charles Darwin, monkeys in an Udmurtia zoo in the Volga region in Russia learned to clean their cages by watching zookeepers and following their example.
A research team at the University of Exeter visualized on television the ability of plants to communicate, the university reported on its website.
Taking corruption to uncharted heights, a military official in central Russia has sold an airfield for a bribe.
A municipal official in the city of Irkutsk in western Siberia got the boot after video popped up on YouTube of his subordinates racing tractors downtown.
The saga of the Kazakhstan official whose likeness was painted into a church fresco depicting a biblical scene has now ended: the painter has added a beard that obscures the official's face, media reported.
A gunpowder plant will produce a military version of a roly-poly doll to spare Russian children from playing with foreign model military vehicles, Izvestia reported on Friday.
Primates in a Kazakhstan zoo are enjoying a very human remedy against cold weather, with fortified wine added to their daily ration this week, local media reported.
A baby-giant, weighing almost 7 kg (15.4 pounds), was born in Kokshetau in northern Kazakhstan, the chief doctor of the regional maternity hospital said on Friday.
Police in Russia’s Sverdlovsk Region in the Urals have detained a young man who had stolen 23 kg (50.7 pounds) of marijuana from a drug dealer, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
Police in the southern Chilean city of Cochrane arrested a man who attempted to steal over five tons of ice from the Jorge Montt Glacier, 1,700 kilometers south of the capital Santiago, El Mercurio daily reported on Wednesday.
A pack of wolves terrorized locals in the streets of a Karelian town, not returning to the woods until police opened fire, killing two.
Kiev's city government spoke against installing a Russian-made monument to a tsarist statesman in the Ukrainian capital.
Unidentified thieves stole a truckload of latex gloves owned by the Federal Security Service from a street in St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg officials have denied re-registration to the city’s branch of the world-renowned Dante Alighieri Society, insisting its members must agree its name with the great poet himself, Fontanka.ru news website reported on Monday.
A hurricane caused death of two women in separate incidents in the city of Novorossiysk in southern Russia on Friday.
An 18-month Israeli boy bit off the head of a snake that crawled into his bedroom in Haifa, the Ynet News portal said on Thursday.
The abduction of a weightlifting instructor went awry this week in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan when the victim broke free and killed one of his kidnappers.
A man was jailed in Voronezh for beating to death an exhibitionist who was showing his genitals to a three-year-old boy.



