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'A quarter of the world's timber grows within Siberia’s boundaries'

W.Bruce Lincoln

Siberian official in leaked audio scandal for allegedly calling flood victims ‘cattle’ and ‘tramps’

Irina Alashkevich claims the file with derogatory comments was faked.

A pack of 14 brown bears filmed wondering outside a village in Magadan region

Did Denisovans usher in the Stone Age in Mongolia?

One dead, seven wounded - including a child - with shrapnel wounds and burns

On the same wavelength - a brown bear filmed mimicking a grey whale in Kamchatka

One million trees to heal burnt Siberian taiga

Finally! Operation begins to release ‘whale jail’ inmates, announced on Putin’s TV hotline

Don’t feed the lost polar bear! warn Russian experts as rescue poised to begin

Starving polar bear 'can hardly move', say residents of Norilsk

Unique in palaeontology: Liquid blood found inside a prehistoric 42,000 year old foal

Scientists ‘confident’ that they can extract cells to clone 42,000 year old extinct foal

Siberian scientists find bacteria that could live on Mars

Business mission in Kuril Islands signals a new era for Russia and Japan

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

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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Pure waters of Lake Baikal in danger from 6.5 million tons of toxic waste

Immediate public audit of a high risk waste storage in Russia is urged.

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Crimson treasure of Siberia, the salt lake that turns pink on sunny days

The deposit and surrounding area were named Royal Salt Shaker by Peter the Great.

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Race against time and waves as Russian archaeologists rescue Siberia’s remarkable Atlantis

Sensational underwater treasures - including mummies of Hun-era fashionistas - recaptured from oblivion.

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Ryzhik the Siberian cat who refuses to be defeated by frostbite

The pet lost all four paws in January in -40C cold in Tomsk, but video shows him walking again with artificial titanium limbs.

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Siberian tourists return to Russian after birth of their first child while on honeymoon in Thailand

Couple thank Thai and Russian doctors who save their premature miracle baby.

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Ever dreamed of skating the world’s deepest lake?

Our reporter goes through days of sleeping on ice and survives a Baikal earthquake. Baikal Trip Diary, Day 1

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