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.

Seasonal greetings from the east of Russia where there are no less than seven different Father Christmas figures to bring joy to children in winter. 

Russia’s coldest region struggles to tame fires intensified by lengthy heatwave in extreme north.

Yulia and Dugarma were raised by the wrong mothers, and now face the shocking truth, vowing to see the ‘joy and happiness’.

Military strikes from air not ruled out to move giant landslide blocking Bureya River causing flood threat to villages.