'And I very much hope that the law in Russian is not an empty vessel, and the people in our country are prohibited from eating one another'.
Olga Kurochkina has spoken out after hearing confirmation that cannibalised human remains found in the taiga were those of her husband.
Cats and dogs are left at the mercy of extremely cold weather reaching -50C with no proper animal winter shelter in Yakutsk.
Ecology groups warn that the extent of fires in forests and taiga has been misreported by up to 159 times compared with satellite evidence of the grim facts.
A deal would be the biggest Chinese equity participation in onshore oil in Russia.