Clocks change for the final time, except in Kemerovo, Kamchatka and Chukotka. Confused?

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!

Prime Minister's eastern promise of special incentives for entrepreneurs.

The drama, beauty - and absurdity - of our weather.

Ice swimming at night is the best cure for winter blues.

23,856 inhabitants in one of Siberia's remotest outposts suffer winter freeze in minus 25C.

A young man and woman were killed as they snowboarded in Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo region.

Photographer Svetlana Kazina shows off washing day in the Altai Mountains - and her loo roll with frostbite!

Russia's coldest region is up to 20C milder than average this month, say meteorologists.