The successful bid was at one of Siberia's most popular winter sports resorts - Sheregesh.
Global warming spells doom for boreal forests with potentially dramatic implications for carbon release in dark taiga.
The Kremlin's 'Mr Siberia' Viktor Tolokonsky tells 'Sphere of Influence' business magazine what our vast region means to him.
Pilot error, technical malfunction and bad weather are all possible causes checked by investigators.
'If we die, I love you,' says one bather struck by bullet-like giant hail stones.
72 year old Agafya Lykova begged for help saying she was short of food.
Sour relations not stopping memorial to historic flights to help save world from Nazism.
Siberian mountaintop lavatory is 'the most extreme toilet in the world'.
US National Weather Service claims smoke haze from deadly inferno has crossed the Pacific.