Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.

Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.

The Siberian region of Kemerovo has opened an 18km trail to a cave where 'experts' claim the fabled Yeti hangs out.

Nowhere in the world runs its roads, trains and airports as well as Siberia during the harsh winters.

Thousands of hectares of land ablaze with no signs of a let-up.

New evidence of climate change as blazes come six weeks early in 2014.

Site identified in Krasnoyarsk region where man 'trapped and killed' mammoths, suspect paleontologists.

Learn to smell the scent of the rouble during your morning shower, demands the head of coal mining Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev.