Here's how people can substitute Siberia after the falls of the rouble.
Some regions parched, others underwater in latest meteorological surprises.
Summer 2020 follows unusually hot and dry spring in swinging between the extremes.
Tornado - first since 1954 - signals freak downpour, opening craters in roads which swallow up cars.
Average temperatures in the north of the Kara and Barents seas were 4C to 5C higher than previous years.
'Second Spring' arrives with rhododendron blossoming for rare encore in October.
Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.
Six infernos ravaging the region's nature have been extinguished in the past 24 hours, it is reported.
Russia will have 11 time zones instead of the current nine, with Siberia's Kemerovo region moving one hour further from Moscow.
Recent reports showed 89 wildfires in Siberia and 25 in the Russian Far East as a new season of damage to forests gets underway.