Two Russian women got an unpleasant surprise when their former boss paid them more than 1,000 dollars to settle a labour dispute -- in dozens of heavy bags full of tiny coins. The women, Anfisa Sizhuk and Anzhelika Shemyakina, were laid off amid the global financial crisis and had demanded that their boss pay them for unused vacation time, the ...

A Russian hospital faces fines for negligence in the switching of a Russian baby and a Chechen baby after the families discovered the mix-up 18 months later, a newspaper reported on Monday. The saga began on March 1, 2007, when a nurse in the Oryol region located some 360 kilometres (220 miles) south of Moscow switched the two newborns' identifying ...

Survivors recalled the terrifying seconds after toxic gas was pumped into their nuclear submarine in an accident on Saturday in which 20 people were killed, Russian newspapers reported. The submarine was overcrowded, cabin doors were locked and some of the crew were too dazed to put on their gas masks, they said, after the biggest naval disaster since the Kursk ...