Damage from wave of floods already labelled 'catastrophic' with worse to come as Russian president Vladimir Putin demands: 'Put people first'.

Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.

Nowhere in the world runs its roads, trains and airports as well as Siberia during the harsh winters.

As footage emerges of more unexplained explosions above Siberia, suspicion falls on recycling of gunpowder at old chemical plant.

Demands increased on 3 August for a 'state of emergency' to be declared on the world's fifth longest river due to a catastrophic shortage of water.

Olga Laponnikova, 44, cocooned the girl as the L-410 turboprop 'fell like a stone' into woodland a mile from runaway in Nelkan, eastern Russia.

Former spies and military operatives write handbook for tourists and hunters, using techniques learned during Soviet era.

People who live near ammunition depot explosion site find war-like ruins.

Pilot error, technical malfunction and bad weather are all possible causes checked by investigators.