A win would offer a boost to Siberia's international profile as a winter sports haven, says president.
More than five dozen suffer acute intestinal problems from the event at Tyoshchin Yazyk tourist resort in Russia's Sakha Republic.
Six infernos ravaging the region's nature have been extinguished in the past 24 hours, it is reported.
Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.
Harry Potter joins Vladimir Lenin in coal-mining Kemerovo.
Tyumen regional traffic inspectorate chief Sergei Besedin was arrested 'accepting a $30,000 bribe', say reports.
Minister of Energy Alexander Novak is proposing to slash the mineral extraction tax on new developments for quarter of a century.
Billionaire tycoon aims to use Siberia’s hydropower to fuel legion of data centres cheaper than anywhere else in Russia.