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Researchers discover ancient ‘weapon-making site’ - beside the skeleton of ‘hunted’ woolly mammoth

Evidence on Arctic island show how people 10,000 or more years ago carved sharp slices off tusks to use for killing and cutting. 

Emaciated polar bear rescued from garbage dump in Arctic maybe ‘lost sister’ of orphaned Ursula

Finally! Operation begins to release ‘whale jail’ inmates, announced on Putin’s TV hotline

Researchers discover ancient ‘weapon-making site’ - beside the skeleton of ‘hunted’ woolly mammoth

Emaciated polar bear rescued from garbage dump in Arctic maybe ‘lost sister’ of orphaned Ursula

Finally! Operation begins to release ‘whale jail’ inmates, announced on Putin’s TV hotline

Caught! The Norilsk polar bear needs urgent medical help, say experts

Don’t feed the lost polar bear! warn Russian experts as rescue poised to begin

Starving polar bear 'can hardly move', say residents of Norilsk

Hungry polar bear arrives in industrial Norilsk after walking 1,500 km inland in search of food

First video of ancient ‘bear-like’ wolf preserved in the permafrost for more than 40,000 years

Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia

World Cup goal triggers marriage proposal by Siberian doctor

World Cup causes dip in tourist numbers to Thailand

Dubai? The Sahara? No, this is a magical stretch of desert in the heart of the coldest region of Siberia!

Siberians opt for Songkran soaking in influx to mark the Thai New Year

'The sun is like Thailand, the snow like the Alps, the party like Ibiza’

Splashing in the icy Pacific as if it was Thailand - but it’s a great ‘cure for cellulite’

Thailand to start talks soon on trade deal with Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union

Russia woos Thailand with business opportunities in Siberia and Kremlin’s Pacific rim

Women’s American Football team in Vladivostok accused of vulgarity after daring photoshoot

Major increase in Russian tourism to Thailand, with 22% rise in 2017

Siberia Airlines stunning music video nominated for Grammy

'The next stop on the Trans-Siberian railway... was designed in London'

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Features

Race against time and waves as Russian archaeologists rescue Siberia’s remarkable Atlantis

Sensational underwater treasures - including mummies of Hun-era fashionistas - recaptured from oblivion.

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Siberian hermit, 75, who ‘lives in 18th century’ refuses to be moved by Space Age

Agafya Lykova rejects leaving her remote house even though debris from coming rocket launch could fall dangerously close.

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Ice tsunami in the extreme north of Russia means summer is finally here

Residents of Dudinka share this impressive - ok, scary! - video of ice breaking on the Yenisei River.

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Features

Ever dreamed of skating the world’s deepest lake?

Our reporter goes through days of sleeping on ice and survives a Baikal earthquake. Baikal Trip Diary, Day 1

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Proof of a 2,000 kilometre polar trade route in volcanic glass dating back at least 8,000 years

Valuable obsidian travelled during Early Holocene times from Lake  Krasnoe in Chukotka to Zhokhov Island deep in the Arctic.

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Excavating the thick ice under a whole ship at bone-chilling minus 50C?

This is precisely how Yakutia gets its impressive river fleet ready for the new season of navigation.

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Sent to Siberia

Rookie FSB agents are punished for 'indecent' graduation jinx in Moscow
Gelandewagen parade videos leads to 'career change' as Russia demands highest standards from secret servicemen.

Born in Siberia

Up-close laboratory pictures of ancient mummy as scientists recreate his life and times
Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.

Voice of Siberia

Siberians mark end of the snow season with swimsuit skiing day
Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.

We say

Lake Baikal 'holds key to new advances in antibiotics'
Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.

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