The traffic cop turned cult leader who claimed to be the son of god — and will now spend 12 years in jail - Alex Croft looks ...

Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic cop before founding the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 and claiming to be ...

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

Siberia offers a tantalizing prize with fewer immediate risks. Its vast reserves of oil, gas, gold, diamonds, rare earth ...

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

The Power of Siberia 2 project has been stalled for years, but Beijing is growing concerned about the reliability of oil and ...

A pair of 14,000-year-old "puppies" found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving ...

Today in the history of astronomy, an asteroid flattens 830 square miles of Siberian forest.

An aerial view of a crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northwestern Siberia, on August 25, 2014. Scientists have now discovered more than 20 explosive giant craters in this remote part of the Russian ...

A small asteroid was visible in northern Siberia on Tuesday, as it closed in on its collision course with Earth. It's the first of two expected asteroid fly-bys this week.

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after being convicted of harming his followers' health and financial affairs.