wind is not much of an option in russia for much the same reason you dont see a lot of them in northern sweden. King winter is not your friend.

perhaps King Winter is not my friend, as i do prefer beach weather, but...

1.  Care to explain the turbines running unattended in the Arctic and Antarctic going back years?  At 4000 meters in the Canadian Rockies?

2.  Care to explain the windparks throughout the Canadian plains, Wyoming, the heavy winters of Buffalo Ridge Minnesota?

3.  Care to explain the thousands of turbines in Mongolia, and now across the border in China's worst winter weather?

4.  Care to explain why Siemens just signed a deal to place 1250 MW in Russia by 2015, and 5 GW by 2020, in joint venture with Russian Manufacturing? Here.