Siberian city 'beats' the world famous ski resorts of Zermatt and Verbier which postpone their bid to host the winter sports festival.
Beauty parlour employee Elena Silina, 24, see her car submerge into a giant pothole in the street.
Fears over highly toxic rocket propellant after Baikonur launch failure.
Crashing viaduct narrowly misses a freight train - and rail worker is seen fleeing the disaster.
Angelina Sadovnikova, then 11, came across the mummified Pleistocene rodent in a cavity left by woolly mammoth tusk diggers.
Desperate attempt to protect saker falcons known as the feathery treasure of Siberia.
Children from Yakutsk - the coldest city in the world - will start next year's flame relay for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Grigory Akhara, 21, was unconscious but alive when driver Ulyana Lobanova, 30, and her foul-mouthed husband Roman, 42, refused to back-up.