Former traffic cop Sergei Torop commanded followers to stop using money while extracting funds from them through ...

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.

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...