Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.
Retired paratrooper aged 102 keeps secret how he cast his ballot in Tyumen.
Tornado - first since 1954 - signals freak downpour, opening craters in roads which swallow up cars.
The pink bird was 5,330 kilometres off course when it landed in subzero Krasnoyarsk region.
Almost 3 million hectares on fire, including Arctic, with fumes having hit area larger than European Union.
'Second Spring' arrives with rhododendron blossoming for rare encore in October.
Journalist Kate Baklitskaya today begins an epic 3 month tour of some of Siberia's most iconic places.