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'I've grown fat, got a tan & now look like a Siberian'
Vladimir Lenin, 1897, in Siberian exile

Angry passengers storm out of a Siberian airport after hours of waiting for quarantine papers

Nearly 700 people got stuck inside a small waiting area as two flights from Thailand landed in Krasnoyarsk.

Seven time zones of Siberia and Russian Far East are almost clear of coronavirus - but why?

Teeing off for golf contest on frozen surface of the world’s deepest lake

Plans for new transport route unveiled to link Pacific with Atlantic

Norilsk breaks records for Arctic heat in a new sign of changing weather patterns

Mummified monk is ‘not dead’ and in rare meditative state, says expert

Pallas's cats to get their own 'palace' in Siberian mountains 

Like ducks to water in the snow - keeping kids healthy Siberian style

Moving to Siberia is a 'no brainer', says top Scottish striker signed by FC Tom

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

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

Siberia 'wins' the world record for bikini ski-ing

First pictures from inside the 'crater at the end of the world'

Man lives after bear breaks his spine and keeps him as food inside den

Siberia Airlines stunning music video nominated for Grammy

Siberian princess goes global 2,500 years after her death

Siberian trainee lawyer voted 'Miss Longest Legs' in Russian beauty contest

Skater Yulia Lipnitskaya, 15, steals the Olympic show in Sochi

Perfectly-preserved ancient foal is shown to the world for the first time

Ready for a cold bath, Siberian-style?

Russia gives away one hectare of farmland and forest to its citizens 

Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life

Siberia's wildfires seen from 1 million miles away: even the tundra is burning

A first new-style power plant is up and running in the Altai Republic: Is this the future?

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The day the world’s most polluted city was in Siberia

Pictures show the impact of smog in Krasnoyarsk, as it scored worse for air quality than Mumbai, Dhaka and Kolkata.

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The Leo Express: a rescued Amur leopard is sent on a 9h flight across Russia to cure back tumour

One of world’s rarest big cats was hit by a car and went through months of treatment at the rescue centre in Russian Far East.

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Admiral Kolchak’s archive has returned to Russia 100 years after his execution

A group of Russian billionaires spent over 3 million euro at French auction to buy historic papers of the man who tried - and failed - to halt Bolsheviks.

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Indian elephants escape circus, go for a snow bath in Yekaterinburg

Runaway duo blocks traffic in the centre of the city as they splash in the snow.

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Arctic island woolly mammoth shows strongest evidence yet of human slaughter and butchering
Ancient men cut all the meat, severed the trunk, removed the brain and pulled out bone marrow from all the limbs.
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The world’s rarest big cat is filmed in stunning video in Far East of Russia

Congratulations to South Korean photographer Choi Kisoon for getting unique footage.

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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.

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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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