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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'

Every other article about Russia in the British media manages to slip in a mention of Soviet history

What I didn’t know before is that Russian men prefer the skinny jeans

I AM living the life I always wanted

As a British immigrant I can see first-hand the levels of corruption in Britain and Russia

My new life as an honorary Siberian

I had a pretty robust preconceived view of Siberian life

For star American swimmer Jessica Long, it will be an emotional homecoming

Siberia's most famous hermit swaps two 'taiga' kittens for a goat and a rooster

Poland's first feature film on families deported to Siberia

The English National Ballet to perform in Siberia

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News

Virology professor hits back at Russian chief doctor’s claim of no Covid-19 reinfection cases
Dr Alexander Chepurnov confirms he twice contracted the virus and fears wave of repeat victims.
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Call for extra hands to clear Russky bridge, still shut after last week’s disastrous ice rain

Video shows hero climbers manually breaking ice off its cable stays at height of 324m (1,063ft) in Vladivostok.

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Homeless man freezes to death steps away from cathedral in Vladivostok’s ice rain aftermath

Elsewhere in Primorsky region 94,000 people are still without electricity, 18,000 are without heating.

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Features

Beauty of frozen methane bubbles on the world’s deepest lake shown in stunning video

Irkutsk photographer captures multi-layered columns of bubbles through crystal clear ice.

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Brown bear cubs fall victim to adult males in Eurasia's largest protected population of the species

This spike of bear cannibalism is reported at the South-Kamchatka nature reserve in Kamchatka.

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Dead giant octopuses washed ashore south from Kamchtka peninsula on the Kuril Islands

Mass death of hydrobionts and fish at the Sea of Okhotsk, west of Kamchatka as battle of the toxic tide versions continues.

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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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