Tributes to the dead and prayers for the 34 injured including 27 students, acrobats with a Nefteyugansk sports club.
A dramatic operation in biting cold of minus 41C saved elephants Magda and Jenny from death after a fire in the trailer carrying them across Siberia.
Official's daughter ploughed onto pavement at high speed and was sentenced to prison but now walks free under Kremlin amnesty.
Emergency services refuse to comment cause of extraordinary blast in the dark sky.
Russian photographer writes about a volcanic eruption at Tolbachik, seen by the Soviets as the most lunar place on the planet.