A self-styled mystic Vissarion and two aides were sentenced to prison for using psychological pressure to extract money and ...

After losing his job as a traffic officer in 1990, Sergei Torop, 64, claimed to have been reborn as Vissarion and went on to ...

Russian authorities have sentenced a Siberian sect leader to 12 years in a prison camp for harming his followers' health and ...

Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman known to his followers as 'Vissarion', set up the Church of the Last Testament in a ...

Sergei Torop, a Russian sect leader claiming to be Jesus reincarnated, received a 12-year prison sentence for harming followers' health and finances. Known as 'Vissarion,' he founded a religious sect ...

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north. The project was a grand failure – but 50 years on, the ...

On 14 June 1941, the Soviet Union deported 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia, among them over 7,000 women, children and the elderly.