Eight seamen from the sunken Amuerskaya freighter remain missing from the gold carrying freighter which sank in a storm in late October.
Thousands of hectares of land ablaze with no signs of a let-up.
Coldest village in the world hit by severe flooding, with one month's rainfall in a few days.
Many Pacific islands are famed for their palm trees, but Sakhalin is facing some of the heaviest January blizzards in living memory.
Spectacular scenes as tornadoes buzz the outskirts of Surgut city and Krasnoyarsk region.
Warmer winter caused problems for Sergey whose misfortune, and quick rescue, were captured on his own hi-tech camera.
Driver records footage of strange funnel on dash cam.
Six campaigners staged a dramatic pre-dawn raid on Gazprom early today, clambering onto the company's floating production base in the Pechora Sea.
City is buried under white blanket after 'freak weather' in Russian Far East.