Valentina Tereshkova "actively took part in the show that some people are calling a state coup," one petition said.

Animal rights campaigners have decried the move as cruel and scientifically groundless.

In a fenced-off complex in Siberia, 144 people evacuated from the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak are being held in quarantine.

Blessing weapons that can kill an "indefinite number of people" must be excluded from pastoral practice, the proposal says.

Russia's Foreign Ministry called Paul Whelan's accusations an effort to create "artificial hype."

Goar Vartanyan allegedly helped thwart a plan backed by Adolf Hitler to assassinate the allied leaders in 1943.

It may not be the most appealing kind of activism. But it certainly makes for interesting, and often viral, YouTube footage.