More than five dozen suffer acute intestinal problems from the event at Tyoshchin Yazyk tourist resort in Russia's Sakha Republic.

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

The flag they plant on top of the mountain will display all those supporting the project. 

Harry Potter joins Vladimir Lenin in coal-mining Kemerovo.

Anastasia Strashevskaya, 18, from Novosibirsk vows to keep studying as she qualifies for casting for the Miss Russia pageant.

Bikini-clad woman flies in by private helicopter to top up her tan - but now pilot is in trouble.

It was described as a 'v-e-rrry hot day' in fashionable snow resort Sheregesh as 700 women and men (in swim suits) smashed the world record.

The successful bid was at one of Siberia's most popular winter sports resorts - Sheregesh.