Trackers mark footprints with GPS technology as 2,000 people scour the forests in first count of rare big cat in 10 years.
Challenge to polar doom warning from respected international expert Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University.
Freak climate conditions sees an abnormally warm November.
The freeze is so deep that horses - and even Rudolph - is brought indoors to warm up.
Startling new statistics show that some 23 villages in vast Krasnoyarsk region are populated only by men.
An investigation is underway in Tyva region over thousands of people being left without heating in temperatures of minus 40C.
Sardana Avksentyeva swept to power as mayor of Russia’s diamond capital in September.
Popular Sheregesh in Kemerovo region to get a $131 million Sochi-style makeover.
It takes truly extreme cold for Yakutian students to miss out on their classes: but the big freeze has arrived (except in Chersky).