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'If you emptied Lake Baikal, it would take every river in the world flowing into it a year to fill.'
Mike Carter, The Observer, 2009
New Miss Russia, 18, 'never posed as a beauty' when she grew up
Yana Dobrovolskaya ate carrots and cottage cheese, then stretched herself on horizontal bars, to gain the height needed to enter pageant.
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Olga Shvets, who runs leading Siberian modelling agency ModelPro, defends recruiting children to the modelling business.
Asked to smile, the girl said: 'I can't'. Asked why, she said: 'Because I have no teeth!'. She was so immature that her milk teeth had only just fallen out.
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.
Business
The Bank of Russia official exchange rates of foreign currencies
