Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.
Confused plants bloom in Sayano-Shushenskiy reserve in Central Siberia, strawberry ripen in the Far East of Russia.
Hundreds - including dozens of children - evacuated safely as fires destroy and threaten homes.
Huge damage wrought by forest fires is sparked by failure to apply safety laws, complained Yuri Chaika.
World's coldest region defies its stereotype.
Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.
Pristine forests around the world's oldest lake go up in flames.
He spoke out as Premier Dmitry Medvedev was in Siberia on a trip substantially aimed at leading efforts to combat the serious forest fires.
But is climate change to blame, or local officials who went on vacation instead of fighting fires?