Modern-day zeppelins costing $30 million each would revolutionise transport links and economic exploitation of Siberia in $240 billion plan.
Tribute for Druzhok who swam back to his own home to protect it against the rising tide of water, and became a symbol of hope.
Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.
State of emergency in three districts as 100,000 residents without power, 1,000-plus trees felled.
His cries woke other participants, and one shot the bear.
The only Russian victim was from Irkutsk, say reports.
The Russian national carrier is examining a scheme to base a new air operator on its assets Vladivostok Avia and Sakhalin-based SAT Airlines.
Subsidence from old coal mine a possible cause of latest mystery hole.