The measured levels of sea ice area on Southern Hemisphere for this year exceeds all known levels so far (year 2014 denoted with yellow line, see the link below).
It's nice example of global warming aka antropogenic climate change. Maybe they'd should blame this also on Russians, i.e. Putin. ;)
_http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/antarctic.sea.ice.interactive.html