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'Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place'

Ian Frazier

Chimpanzees in Siberian nature park watch cartoons to stay in good mood during Covid-19 crisis

Intelligent primates miss seeing visitors, and get depressed in quarantine.

Video shows frightened leopard cub fleeing raging wildfires in eastern Russia

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

No coronavirus vaccine before summer, says Russia’s top anti-virus centre

600 fishermen taken off floating ice in the Sea of Okhotsk

As Siberia hits its coldest temperatures of the winter, here’s how to enjoy life below -50C

Scientists dissect 42,000 year old extinct male foal preserved in permafrost for cloning bid - video

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

UPDATED: Arctic river turns red again - two years after ‘pollution problem' supposedly fixed

Reindeer crisis in Yamalo-Nenets as number of deaths rise

Unique experiment as endangered ‘young tiger couple’ to be returned into the wild

Boost for Siberian salt mines as Russia bans Western imports

Sawatdee, Vladivostok! Thai businessmen eye Russian market

$11 billion Chinese scheme to develop Lake Baikal's tourism hub

Authorities decide to fund new UDI school after TV talent show success

Karate world champion murdered in case that has shocked city

Dream still alive for Siberian dance group in Britain's Got Talent

Rising actor found dead amid conflicting reports over what happened

Schoolgirl sets off on 112km expedition to ski to the geographical North Pole

First-ever underwater ice hockey matches held in Siberia

World's biggest eatery flashmob, when anyone can set up a restaurant, cafe or a bar for a day

Siberian scientists tell women the best moment to conceive - in a message flashed to their phones

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

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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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The Bank of Russia official exchange rates of foreign currencies

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