Eight people have been injured by a knife attacker in Russia's far northern city of Surgut.

A total of 32 people have died after a passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after taking off.

Russia has ordered the country’s airlines to stop using Tu-154B planes until the cause of a passenger jet fire and explosion that killed three people is determined.

A Russian passenger jet carrying 128 people caught fire and later exploded at a Siberian airport today, killing one person and injuring 10.