When the temperature dips to minus 30C in Tobolsk, kids are allowed a day off school.
Novosibirsk resident developed symptoms of the illness that has baffled scientists and doctors during visit to family in Kazakhstan.
Tyva republic registers Saudi-like heat but is also hit by wildfires.
This and 10 other silly questions answered by the Arctic explorer Alexander Oboimov.
The meteorite that crashed to Earth in the Urals was attacked by a UFO causing it to explode and shatter, it was claimed on Thursday.
Or is it too expensive to put the environment before the need for energy?
Ten fishermen were plucked to safety after their vessel - Chance-101 - sank 31 miles east of Svetlaya village, in Primorye region in the Russian Far East.
Foreign visitors transiting on Russian airlines will be able to stay for 72 hours without documents as part of move to help boost tourism and economy.
From the Urals to Pacific people this week joined the rest of Russia in marking the massacre in which 334 were killed.