New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.
Radicals planned attack in Pyt-Yakh in Khanty-Mansi region two years ago.
Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.
Confused plants bloom in Sayano-Shushenskiy reserve in Central Siberia, strawberry ripen in the Far East of Russia.
The 5.3 tremor was felt over a wide area but was centred some 21km from Belovo in Kemerovo region.
Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.
The luxurious new 175-room Marriott is changing the face of the city in readiness for a 2014 opening.
Flourishing trade in souvenirs and household goods.