Tomsk region

Firefighters tenderly carry the little pigs to safety during four hour battle to extinguish fire.

All production of uranium across Russia will be in the closed Siberian town of Seversk by 2016.

Forward-thinking Siberian city promotes itself at major convention of Asian cities.

Tomsk region overrun with beavers and aims for a cull by hunters, or sending them abroad.

A brown bear cub filmed trying to have a swing at a playground in Tomsk region.

Techno-capital Tomsk goes global to advertise for students.

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.

A family was rescued by helicopter after chopping birch trees and using them to spell 'SOS' when they were ringed by blazing wildfires.

Flights late on Thursday and on Friday suffered disruption due to smog caused by blazes in dry woodland made vulnerable by the current heat wave.