Retired paratrooper aged 102 keeps secret how he cast his ballot in Tyumen.

Students were shown the dead beast in latest case of the hungry wild animals encroaching villages.

From the Urals to Pacific people this week joined the rest of Russia in marking the massacre in which 334 were killed. 

Oilmen forced to stop work after being trapped in 'horseshoe' of burning taiga, as pall of smoke smothers Irkutsk region where state of emergency imposed.

Four children among those hit by the infection which has spread from a beast slaughtered this year.

Anastasia Strashevskaya, 18, from Novosibirsk vows to keep studying as she qualifies for casting for the Miss Russia pageant.

Many families with young children among those finding new homes - and hope - in Siberia.