I'm sure they are aren't, given half of russia is built on permafrost. This weather is not natural. Climate change isn't as clear cut as places just getting warmer. It juts means it becomes more erratic, with ridiculously crazy weather events like this. Besides russia didn't have a brutal winter this year, it was actually their warmest on record.
Glad we don't have that here, we've had two summers in a row with hot weather and this month apepars to be a little below average tempreature wise so far. Perhaps 30C next week. Overall though as much as I complain about the UK weather, at least we won't suffer that much tempreature wise from climate change, although flooding is a different story.