It's the day Siberians have fun drenching each other - but why?

Valuable obsidian travelled during Early Holocene times from Lake  Krasnoe in Chukotka to Zhokhov Island deep in the Arctic.

'Siberia is so far away that it feels as if it's not quite real? It's time to change the way the world thinks about our land', says Taisia Kaigorodova.

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

Brave Karina Chikitova hoping for a Barbie doll from Russian Santa, Ded Moroz.

With dumpy little legs, a dense body and a penchant for hiding from trouble, the Manul has proved elusive to nature lovers worldwide.

Honour in Yakutia to Karina Chikitova, who - at the age of 4 - survived 12 days and nights alone in the Siberian wilderness.

An 8 km high plume was recorded from the southernmost major stratovolcano on the Kamchatka peninsula.