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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

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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Ancient coloured ‘pencil’ up to 50,000 years old found in Siberia

Cave-dwellers used hematite crayon for art work in Altai Mountains, say archeologists.

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Skyscrapers of a bleak city loom out of icy mist on Tazov peninsula - but it is an amazing mirage

Despite appearances, there is no city anywhere near this oil and gas facility in the Arctic.

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Werewolf maniac Mikhail Popkov sentenced for life

Russia’s worst-ever serial killer convicted today for raping and murdering 56 more women. 

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Features

Rare Siberian Saker Falcon illegally caught and sold for $42,000 to an UAE buyer

Ecologists from several countries lost battle to poachers who caught an endangered dark-feathered bird.

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‘Mowgli girl’ who survived alone aged 4 in bear infested wild for 12 nights becomes young ballerina

Amazing Karina Chikitova in 2014 captured the hearts of people around the world after staying alive with her dog in wild: now she is thriving.

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Unique 19th century English steam engine found in the depths of Siberian taiga

This witness to the Siberian gold rush might be the only one left in the world.

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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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