Startling new statistics show that some 23 villages in vast Krasnoyarsk region are populated only by men.
Three crashes in four days with total toll of 16.
Video shows the spectacular result in Sosnovoborsk, Krasnoyarsk region.
Yana Tamocheva became lost while picking berries with her mother in Krasnoyarsk region.
Krasnoyarsk governor is moved to role as head of new Ministry for North Caucasus.
Thousands of hectares of land ablaze with no signs of a let-up.
Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.
Most fires will not be extinguished, with major cities polluted by fumes.