In this digest, we will tell you about the biggest beach complex with swimming pools in Russia set to open in Moscow, the development of a tourist center in the largest special economic zone of Russia, the Altai region, and about a transcontinental flight in the largest hot air balloon in Russia

A Mi-8 helicopter with nine people on board made a hard landing in Russia's Murmansk Region, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Tuesday, adding that all the crew and passengers were safe

The United States on Thursday sanctioned Russia's steel and mining company Severstal and 15 other entities, the Treasury Department said

St. Petersburg lawyer Igor Mirzoev has filed a lawsuit against the Russian Santa Claus, demanding that he be given gifts for the past 23 years and paid 10 million rubles ($135,800) in moral damages, a Vologda Region court said on Friday

Russian and US scientists, civil society leaders, religious figures and others are commemorating the 280-year anniversary of the Russian voyagers discovering Alaska, Historical and Education Society Russian America President Vladimir Kolychev told Sputnik

The incidence of tuberculosis in Russia has decreased more than 2 times per 100,0000 of the population since 2010, a statistical report of the Ministry of Health, seen by Sputnik, said