School closed after outbreak in village in Krasnoyarsk region.
Yury Karnaukhov faces backlash from parents after bizarre ruling in Tyumen school.
'Siberia is so far away that it feels as if it's not quite real? It's time to change the way the world thinks about our land', says Taisia Kaigorodova.
Today classes are closed, not because temperatures are plunging to minus 44C, but due to the ferocious icy winds.
As temperatures sunk to minus 50C and below, schools and kindergartens were closed for the world's hardiest children.
Students were shown the dead beast in latest case of the hungry wild animals encroaching villages.
Russia's coldest region is up to 20C milder than average this month, say meteorologists.
When the temperature dips to minus 30C in Tobolsk, kids are allowed a day off school.
I hate the cold, yet here I was, in winter, boarding a plane for Siberia. This was no holiday– after all, no one goes to Siberia for a holiday!
Head teacher told talented football player that he looked like a member of Hitler Youth.