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'Lake Baikal: the very name fills Russian hearts with awe'
Mike Carter, The Observer

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?

Relax - you are in Siberia

First picture of the hero dog which saved three year old Karina

Bottoms up! Not in the Urals and Siberia

How to make a stylish arrival at a Siberian beach

Putin frees three endangered Siberian tiger orphans into the wild

The worm has turned...luminous blue

Ultimate love between mother and daughter

Salekhard becoming the bridge between Europe and Asia

Siberian scientists announce they now have a 'high chance' to clone the woolly mammoth

Siberian Jew was on board 'crashed' Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200

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News

Researchers discover ancient ‘weapon-making site’ - beside the skeleton of ‘hunted’ woolly mammoth

Evidence on Arctic island show how people 10,000 or more years ago carved sharp slices off tusks to use for killing and cutting. 

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Emaciated polar bear rescued from garbage dump in Arctic maybe ‘lost sister’ of orphaned Ursula

DNA test to check if female bear is missing cub from a mother slain by poachers in Dikson, Russia’s most northerly port.

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

Mammals were being readied for sale to aquariums in China, but now are to return to wild after public campaign.

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Features

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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Siberian hermit, 75, who ‘lives in 18th century’ refuses to be moved by Space Age

Agafya Lykova rejects leaving her remote house even though debris from coming rocket launch could fall dangerously close.

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Ice tsunami in the extreme north of Russia means summer is finally here

Residents of Dudinka share this impressive - ok, scary! - video of ice breaking on the Yenisei River.

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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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