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'Lake Baikal is contains more water than the five US great lakes combined'
Mike Carter, The Observer, 2009

Iconic mammoth hotel planned for Lake Baikal with soaring-100 metre high tusks

Sculptor Dashi Namdakov pays homage to extinct woolly giant in innovative design aimed at becoming Buryatia's 'brand'.

Siberian Rapunzel goes into Russian records book with her 139 centimetre mane

Skin and bones boy aged 11 rescued after weighing in at just 11 kg due to 'food torture'

Beware: don't park in the wrong place in the Arctic

First seismic sensor installed to give early warning on new 'exploding pingos'

City under siege from packs of aggressive stray dogs as boy, 12, savaged on way to school

Newly-discovered Siberian dinosaur was as heavy as 7 male African elephants

Holding hands for 5,000 years, a couple with mysterious jade rings and dagger

New method of fighting cancer developed by Siberian scientists

Record heat and abnormal flooding as Siberia gets freak weather

Wild Amur leopard tasked with becoming hero father to help save the species

Weather turns tropical across Siberia as abnormal summer heat roasts six regions

Huge diamond extracted in time for Valetine's Day

Marriott chain 'to expand in Siberia with Novosibirsk developments'

Russia to grant 'easy-visas' at key Far Eastern entry point

The show must go on...even without world renown conductor Valery Gergiev

Paris comes to Siberia - for the shopping!

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

Siberia to host Cyber Football World Cup in 2018 - for robots

Vladimir Putin backs Krasnoyarsk's bid to host the World Winter Student Games in 2019

Tragic death of 28 year old women's judo star Elena Ivashchenko

Siberian jails - the most colourful in the world?

Thailand wants more tourists from Siberia

Little Anya Ustinova, born in Krasnoyarsk, is already a one in a million child

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Features

Dire threat to 'sparkling jewel' beach where nature turned pollution into beauty
Old glass bottles dumped by man were crafted by the sea into a magical tourist attraction, but the sight will be gone in 20 years, says expert.
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Science 'to answer Russian royal mystery': did tsar stage death to become Siberian monk?

Officially, Alexander I died of typhus aged 47 on 1 December 1825, but evidence suggests he faked his demise and lived as a holy man.

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Tied up in his grave, the strange 'dancing skeleton' of Ust-Ivanovka

Dark Ages man aged around 30 found in a medieval graveyard for unusually old people in the Russian Far East.

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Features

Lonely dog Volya finds loving home in the West

Mongrel trapped for three years in a tiny cold and dark cavity gets new start in Germany after our story about her plight went around the world.

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Found: dragon and griffin megaliths 'dating back 12,000 years to end of Ice Age, or earlier'

Unknown ancient people left the newly discovered fantastical creatures hewn of granite in Altai Mountains.

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Albino girl known as Snow White becomes as internet sensation in Siberia
Child aged 8 wanted by modelling agencies but mother says: 'Not yet, she's too young.'
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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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