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'Lake Baikal: the very name fills Russian hearts with awe'

Mike Carter, The Observer

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.

Scottish pubs provide cheer in Urals and Siberia despite economic gloom

Marriott chain 'to expand in Siberia with Novosibirsk developments'

The Frenchman who brings his love of Siberia to the world

Paris comes to Siberia - for the shopping!

Supermodel Irina Shayk prays for 'my angel, my love' - her Siberian grandmother

So what it is like living in the Siberian Athens?

The most perfect summer I have known

'Did you see God?' - granny in the Siberian village asked when the world's first spacewoman landed

If the minister of education is reading this, you and I need to have a chat fella

Let's be honest - Russian food doesn't usually get a great press

Every day I pass at least fifty unbelievably beautiful women before I even reach the office

What is it like being married to a Siberian woman, are they tougher than 'normal'?

News

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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