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'Lake Baikal, where the ice queen cast her spell'

Mike Carter, The Observer, 2009

Wonder girl Karina Chikitova, 11, wins place at world’s northernmost professional ballet school

Karina became the symbol of resilience and hope when - aged only 4 - she survived 12 days in taiga of Yakutia.

Permafrost is ablaze with hundreds of wildfires in world’s coldest region

Unique 2,000-year-old statuette of dancing man, likely made in Northern India, dug up in Siberia

Better economic and tourist links with China are on the way, with significant benefits for Siberia

Vera's stunning images of polar bears set to feature on children's clothes

First winter season oil shipments over the frozen Arctic heralded a success

Praise won by the pristine Russian timber used for the ultra-speedy track in London's VeloPark

The ideal Siberian penthouse for a European footballer miles from home?

Scottish manager on just how exactly did he agree to manage a football club in Novosibirsk

Tower of Siberia: can this 302 metre skyscraper save our planet?

Inside a Russian experiment to make life possible on the Moon or Mars

The smoking gun 'proving ancient man killed woolly mammoth 45,000 years ago'

Siberians to get a taste for Pad Thai, Tom Yum Goong and Som Tum

Stunning photos of Siberia and its people feature in new book

Beyonce's choreographer Danielle Polanco checks out Siberia's twerking sensations

Our exotic birds are winning rave reviews, as they invade and delight the West

Siberian Arctic leads the way in 'revolutionary' Northern Hemisphere warming

Warning to Putin over wildfire 'catastrophe' with claim officials undercount forest infernos

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Celebrity chef launches health crusade as figures show rise in obesity

Is this Russia’s most beautiful police officer?

Fighting stigma: parents of girl born with half a face tell of their battle to help her

Police arrest 16 year old boy after man's beheaded body found in park

New signs of Siberia's Nessie? A dark creature in the lake and broken fishing nets

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First expedition to depths of Lake Cheko close to epicentre of Tunguska event to start in February

Geophysicists and hydrobiologists will dive below 30 metres in what some scientists believe is the impact crater.

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Red Book’s Steller Sea lion rescued from a plastic death trap in Russian Far East

The endangered mammal got tied up to the Nevelsk breakwater like a chained dog.

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World’s coldest marathon at blistering minus 53C is complete in Yakutia

Local runner Vasily Lukin won the full distance in 3 hours, 22 minutes.

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Treasure trove of Palaeolithic jewellery, made at least 45,000 years ago, found in the Denisova Cav

Archeologists discovered a new stone bracelet, two sharp pins, a marble ring and fox tooth pendants.

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Photographer captures eerie graveyard of North Korean schooners scattered along the Russian coast

Ghost flotilla is the only memorial to dozens of North Korean squid poachers who never returned to their home waters.

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Work underway to create the world’s first Arctic station powered by hydrogen and renewables

The $27-million Snezhinka (Snowflake) is seen as a future international science hub for biotech, robotic and AI-driven projects.

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