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'Lake Baikal's ability to purify itself is down to an endemic microscopic shrimp called epischura baikalensis'
'Sacred Sea', Peter Thomson

Cloning of mammoth will be successful in 10 years, predicts head of region earmarked for their home

Born-again beasts will roam in Ice Age Park in Yakutia, said Aisen Nikolaev, head of Yakutia region.

Cute first pictures of new 50,000 year old cave lion cub found perfectly preserved in permafrost

Puzzle over Arctic ‘breeding and dying ground’ for ancient animals from woolly mammoth era

Sun blanked out in Arctic Siberia

Horrific damage to Polar Airlines plane after it flew through thunderstorm

Chinese tourists caught taking jewels from one of world’s most unusual beaches

Unique 5,000 year old figurine with feather headdress found in old potato field in Novosibirsk

Is this proof early man weaponised ivory from woolly mammoth tusks to kill....woolly mammoths?

Chic women's jewellery made of coal, encrusted with jade and coral from 2,200 years ago

Flying to save the rarest big cat in the world

New nature reserve to protect Great Siberian Ice Hole and mammoth bones

Poacher fined $155,000 for illegal hunting of 6 endangered tigers, and 46 bears

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

Sea launch floating spaceport owned by S7 Group targets dozen launches in 5 years

'Let wealthy tourists buy more expensive diamonds for their wives and girlfriends'

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

Team UDI through to semi-final of Britain's Got Talent

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

First-ever underwater ice hockey matches held in Siberia

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

How do men impress women in the planet's coldest city? Easy - with the coolest dance in the world

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Features

Peek inside the Siberian cave where inter-species love child ‘Denny’ lived 90,000 years ago

13 year old revealed as the daughter of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father - separate humanoid groups now proven to have crossbred.

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Scary Arctic idols around Vaygach island, the ‘territory of death’

For hundreds of years visitors to this Arctic outpost have been frightened by terrifying totems and human sacrifices. 

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Thailand conquers Siberia as massage revolution reaches even the coldest corners of the world

Thai massage experts impress Russian clients in how they take the stress out of life and restore SPArkle in extreme climate.

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Yak calf born in Pleistocene Park: will a hybrid elephant-mammoth be next?

It now seems likely in a matter of years; before this, the first bison since their extinction 10,000 years ago will be re-introduced.

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Monument to Stalin’s folly: relics of the Railroad of Death where ‘300,000 prisoners perished’

Haunting images of this Railway to Nowhere, built by Gulag convicts in the cruellest of conditions on the cusp of the Arctic Circle.

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Russians spearhead revival of Phuket’s property market in dash for villas

Many tourists from Russia to Thailand are from Siberia - and after a drastic fall in the wake of the 2014 downturn, they are now back on the tropical  vaca...

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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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