Residents warned to stay away from the animals, with two men already having been savagely attacked... but there is happy news for two little cubs.

It might be snowing and cold outside, but inside Zhukovka it will always be 12 degrees… though it can rain on command!

How an entrepreneur and cinema producer from Lake Baikal became driver to the UK's Princess Royal at the Winter Olympics.

But then Siberia also has no less than SEVEN real Santa figures, and you can meet them all here.

The Russian president's trip on Wednesday coincided with a marked improvement in levels of pollution, they claim.

'Siberia is so far away that it feels as if it's not quite real? It's time to change the way the world thinks about our land', says Taisia Kaigorodova.

Greenpeace concern as firefighters say they cannot extinguish 3 year blaze with smoke visible from space.

The beaches here are thronged with sun-seekers, children paddle in the warm waters — even the babushki are relaxed.

Our map shows the attacks by bears on humans across a swathe of Siberia and the Russian Far East.