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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.

Archeologists find 1,500 years old mummy in Mongolia

Who was the 'phantom girl' in these 110-year-old photographs?

Girl lost for 12 days in Siberian wilderness celebrates Xmas with dog that saved her

The secrets of Siberia’s frozen snow brides revealed

Another success at Christie’s for rising Siberian artist Zorikto

Siberian scientists on brink of Parkinson’s cure

Welcome to the Altai Mountains, nature's own ancient gallery

Was the world's oldest secret code found in Urals?

Female woolly mammoth gave birth to nine babies: can she have another 28,000 years later?

2,500 year old Siberian princess 'died from breast cancer', reveals MRI scan

13,300 year old spear made of woolly rhinoceros horn found on Arctic island

Scientists to recreate 2,300 y.o brain surgery after finding evidence of successful operations

News

Pensioner with pacemaker uses pitchfork to fight off endangered Amur tiger, the world's largest cat

When this failed, Vitaly Saidov grabbed his gun and shot dead the predator to save himself and his family.

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Siberian grandmother hailed the Queen of Flex for reading rap in freezing waters of Lake Baikal

Cool Galina Kharitonova, 65, won an army of fans in her native Irkutsk and online.

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Call to avoid 'mob rule' amid mass anger in Yakutsk after ‘kidnap and rape’ by ‘Kyrgyz migrant’

Some 3,000 at protest rally after detention of 23 year old man and his 'accomplices’.

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Features

Proof of a 2,000 kilometre polar trade route in volcanic glass dating back at least 8,000 years

Valuable obsidian travelled during Early Holocene times from Lake Krasnoe in Chukotka to Zhokhov Island deep in the Arctic.

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Excavating the thick ice under a whole ship at bone-chilling minus 50C?

This is precisely how Yakutia gets its impressive river fleet ready for the new season of navigation.

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Incredible journey to the land where winter begins, the place winter is born

In this exclusive report, Yakutian photographer Nariyana Romanova takes us on a magical journey through her kingdom of ice.

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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.

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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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