Guardian: Crusted with snow and ice, they stand like monuments to a lost era. With their windows gaping empty over the freezing tundra, the deserted apartment blocks of Yor Shor speak of a time when the Kremlin believed ideology and industry could defeat nature. A decade ago more than 5,000 people lived in this village about 70 miles beyond the Arctic Circle in Russia’s far north, where winter temperatures drop to -50C (-58F) and blizzards sweep down from the North Pole, burying cars and …