Residents warned to stay away from the animals, with two men already having been savagely attacked... but there is happy news for two little cubs.
Beast was seen daily on roadside begging for food from humans, but he fell for a cabbage pie bait and was returned to wild.
Greenpeace claim authorities underestimate the scale of destruction, amid warnings of lack of resources to fight fires.
Here we go back in time and remember 13 remarkable moments of 2013.
It takes truly extreme cold for Yakutian students to miss out on their classes: but the big freeze has arrived (except in Chersky).
Russian photographer writes about a volcanic eruption at Tolbachik, seen by the Soviets as the most lunar place on the planet.
Around 400 delegates are expected including representatives of 41 ethnic minorities representing around a quarter of a million people.