Amazing footage shows the bears just 150 metres from the nearest house as shooting is criticised - but does little to deter predators.

Elsewhere in Russia’s coldest region desperate authorities spike clouds to induce rain and tame wildfires.

Entirely on her own initiative, Jessica - who will be 21 later this month - is going to Siberia to see her biological mother Natalia, 38, and father Oleg, 37.

Siberian 'suslik' needs human rescue from passing motorists on Olkhon island in Lake Baikal.

Stranded on Teletskoye Lake in the Altai Mountains, bird's only hope of survival is to be caught and put in a zoo.

Success as Novosibirsk State now rubs shoulders with the likes of Yale and Harvard in the United States and Oxford and Cambridge in Britain.

Smiling five-year-old saved by her dog too shy to speak about how she survived in wild infested with bears and wolves.

There are 30 beds in Altai Regional Clinical Children Hospital in Western Siberia, which are never empty.

Meanwhile, Emergencies' Minister vows better space monitoring of flooding as plans underway to stop a repeat of 2013 crisis.

The hungry feline terrorised a village snatching and eating guard dogs in Aleksey-Nikolskoye, even forcing scared children to miss classes.