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dancer Sergei Polunin

Manicures, massages, warm milk and 24/7 care to raise polar bear cubs whose mother rejected them

Four Russian women share unique experience of becoming mother bears in the first ever attempt to nurture zoo cubs.

Five year old girl rescued from a sewage well after eight hours at -20C on the island of Sakhalin

Six zoo staff play foster parents to polar bear cubs whose mother rejected them

Mother of two, 18 months old baby dead, teenager injured after avalanche hits ski resort by Norilsk

Faces of ‘Siberian Tutankhamun’ and his ‘Queen’ buried 2,600 years ago reconstructed by science

One dead, four stranded as large chunk of ice collapses at Kamchatka waterfall

60,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘Swiss Army Knife’ found in Siberian cave

Schoolgirl finds the world’s oldest lemming preserved in permafrost and dating back 41,000 years

Amazingly preserved puppy with whiskers, eyelashes, hair and velvety nose intact puzzle scientists

2019 to be ‘worst-ever year’ for wildfires in Siberia and ‘only rain can now extinguish flames’

Massive wildlife tragedy as bears and foxes flee taiga, while smaller animals suffocate in smoke

Fire and flood apocalypse with wildfires raging and dire threat to Baikal, world’s deepest lake

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

Sparkling Far East of Russia - Indian KGK to invest $50 million into a diamond-cutting factory

Climate change offers chance of major economic boost in Arctic for Russia, says Putin

Players tee off with red balls for golf on the world's deepest lake

Tragedy as runner dies from 'cardiac arrest' during Baikal ice marathon

Woman pulls two trams full of passengers weighing 36 tons - in minus 20 cold

Row as schoolchildren aged 7 to 16 taught to pole dance

DiCaprio formally invited to visit Siberia after winning 'people's Oscar' from Yakutians

DiCaprio warns of climate change threat as he accepts 'Siberian Oscar'

The Siberian ice bucket challenge: Tomsk beats New York

How Siberia's famous swamp could become the next big winter tourist draw

Splash! Skier plunges into -15C Lake Baikal after hitting thin ice

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Prehistoric people developed a technique for making a playdough-like material from mammoth ivory

The skill of ivory softening was used more than 12,000 years ago to make tools - or decorations - that still puzzle modern science.

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Cows in the world’s coldest inhabited place have to wear mouton bras for outdoor walks

Fur or other natural fabric garments protect Oymyakon cattle from getting frostbitten at -50C.

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Beauty of frozen methane bubbles on the world’s deepest lake shown in stunning video

Irkutsk photographer captures multi-layered columns of bubbles through crystal clear ice.

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Brown bear cubs fall victim to adult males in Eurasia's largest protected population of the species

This spike of bear cannibalism is reported at the South-Kamchatka nature reserve in Kamchatka.

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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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The Bank of Russia official exchange rates of foreign currencies

EUR90.41USD74.36GBP101.62Other...

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