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'Siberia is indeed a land of superlatives: bigger than Europe and the US combined, with the biggest gas reserves in the world'

Ten polar bears - six adults and four cubs - besiege a stalled rubbish truck in Russian Arctic

Fellow driver tries to scare the predators away as they climb inside the truck to feast on scraps.

New beluga family saved as rescuers call for creating whale emergency centres in Russian Far East

Hero inspector saves two adult beluga whales and one beluga calf stranded on the beach

Ten polar bears - six adults and four cubs - besiege a stalled rubbish truck in Russian Arctic

New beluga family saved as rescuers call for creating whale emergency centres in Russian Far East

Hero inspector saves two adult beluga whales and one beluga calf stranded on the beach

Troops set to work decontaminating ‘Siberian Chernobyl’ amid fears of ecological catastrophe

New spill of 45 tons of jet fuel pollutes tundra in Taymyr

Sledding dogs are far older than previously thought, enabling man to hunt hibernating polar bears

Neanderthal woman’s walk of love some 90,000 years ago between two caves 106 km apart

Ancient girl Amazon warrior no older than 13 is confirmed by modern scientific techniques

Wildfires ‘critical’ in Siberia and Russian Far East, up to ten times worse than last year

Russian diamond mining giant sells a rare pink diamond to an American collector

Iceman survives burial almost naked in snow grave for 13 minutes in bizarre Valentine’s Day stunt

Vladimir Putin approves Russia’s next mega infrastructure project, a $1.3bn bridge across river Lena

Ekaterinburg Opera Theatre to open Bangkok’s International Festival of Dance & Music

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’

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

Russia in ‘remarkable recovery story’ as number of visitors to Phuket soar

Siberia Airlines stunning music video nominated for Grammy

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Dead giant octopuses washed ashore south from Kamchtka peninsula on the Kuril Islands

Mass death of hydrobionts and fish at the Sea of Okhotsk, west of Kamchatka as battle of the toxic tide versions continues.

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Red Book saker falcon wounded by poachers gets wings extensions so it can fly again

The prized bird destined to work for a rich man in the United Arab Emirates released back to wild.

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Stunning Bronze Age statuette with a tattooed face and a bone mask found in Siberia

The clay figurine was perched on shoulder of a woman laid to rest about 5,000 years ago.

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Spectacular red sprites - ultrafast bursts of electricity - filmed over the Urals

Amateur astronomer Ilya Yankovsky shared stunning video of the elusive atmospheric phenomena.

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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s historic ‘personal plane’ found at aviation graveyard in Arctic

Rusting Ilyushin Il-14P with tail number СССР-61755 is located 61 years after his famous speech to the United Nations.

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Yakut designers ‘re-populate’ dead GULAG town of Kadykchan

Once the coal mining capital of Central Kolyma, it was ghosted after the 1996 mine explosion.

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