All public events cancelled, extra protection for children as they go to kindergarten and school.
43 bears arrive to feast on two rare Red List whales washed ashore close to far-flung settlement.
Vessels Kapitan Dranitsyn and Admiral Makarov 'marooned' in east for the rest of winter after getting trapped off Chukotka.
Clocks change for the final time, except in Kemerovo, Kamchatka and Chukotka. Confused?
Valuable obsidian travelled during Early Holocene times from Lake Krasnoe in Chukotka to Zhokhov Island deep in the Arctic.
A bowhead whale beached on the remote outpost in the Arctic Ocean, and the news spread fast among the island's bears.
Stuck vessel needs electricity supply from shore after getting gridlocked for rest of winter on Northern Sea Route.
Forlorn polar bear named Umka turned up at a Russian police station as if pleading for help: now he is back where he belongs.
New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.
A major new Arctic clean-up expedition is poised to start work getting rid of junk and pollution blighting this vast region.