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'Kolchak was 'like an Englishman'-the analogy oddly recurs in an official Soviet account of the execution'

Peter Fleming, 'The Fate of Admiral Kolchak'

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

Palm-size rare monkey abandoned by parents who turned all attention to twin baby

Russia unearths its largest ever colour 236-carat rough diamond

First pictures emerge of a Russian man whose ammonium nitrate cargo detonated in the port of Beirut

Ancient coloured ‘pencil’ up to 50,000 years old found in Siberia

50,000 year old tiara made of woolly mammoth ivory found in world famous Denisova Cave...

Ancient cave lions had spots, believe scientists, after analysing cub preserved in permafrost

Rare Siberian tiger poisoned in Thailand then skin sold on black market for $600

River turns alarming ‘blood red’ colour, but experts don’t know why

Polar bear struggles with best selfie look on remote Wrangel Island

Arctic goes 4G as 'web crazy' Norilsk ups its speed

Huge diamond extracted in time for Valetine's Day

Marriott chain 'to expand in Siberia with Novosibirsk developments'

Siberian farmyard rap from remote Yakutian village goes viral on web

American heavy metal guitarist rushed to hospital in Siberia with a kidney stone

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

British princess has a Siberian escort in Sochi

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

Leading boxer is knifed to death in Siberia

Who says Siberian winters are boring? They are sparkly, fun, and amazingly beautiful!

Endless summertime in Siberia 'to end' as clocks go back and 'old time zones return'

Siberians are amongst the happiest (and grumpiest) Russians

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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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The Bank of Russia official exchange rates of foreign currencies

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