Some 39 convicts wounded their own arms and shoulders in the mutiny at Prison number 3 in Irkutsk.
Journalists vow to fight for station and its 300 jobs.
Residents of Krasnoyark take to boats to go to work, while an unusual July snowstorm hits Yakutia.
As footage emerges of more unexplained explosions above Siberia, suspicion falls on recycling of gunpowder at old chemical plant.
White-knuckle driver Roman Rusinov and motor journalist Andrey Leontjev smash the Russian on-ice speed record.
Abnormally hot May weather resembles midsummer with air temperatures as high as +35C.
The president warns that the US and EU want to defang the Russian bear.
Premier Dmitry Medvedev warned it will take two to three weeks to extinguish the fires raging across Siberia.