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'The power of the taiga... perhaps only migratory birds know where it ends'
Anton Chekhov, 1890

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'?

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News

Giant sailing ship encounters no ice as it attempts the Northern Sea Route

Magnificent STS Sedov easily passes three Arctic seas exactly 142 years after the famous Vega Expedition was stuck in pack ice for 11 months.

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A large new ‘hole’ appears in Gydan tundra, following record-warm Arctic summer

200 metres wide thermocirque seen weeks after scientists find funnel in the Yamal peninsula, caused by build up of methane.

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Polar bear chased away with flares after wandering close to a secondary school at Chukotka

Bear Patrol in remote village of Ryrkaipiy on high alert as predators gather by a walrus rookery.

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Features

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s historic ‘personal plane’ found at aviation graveyard in Arctic
Rusting Ilyushin Il-14P with tail number СССР-61755 is located 61 years after his famous speech to the United Nations.
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Yakut designers ‘re-populate’ dead GULAG town of Kadykchan

Once the coal mining capital of Central Kolyma, it was ghosted after the 1996 mine explosion.

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First pictures & video of soft tissues preserved on a newly-discovered mammoth shared by scientists

Parts of massive skull were also found in silt of Yamal peninsula’s lake, but sadly there was no brain nor tusks.

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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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