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'Baikal is starting to attract pioneering tourists looking for an extreme wilderness experience'
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'

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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Dubai? The Sahara? No, this is a magical stretch of desert in the heart of the coldest region of Si...

Model Amina Karat, 34, poses on the Saamys-Kumaga sands in Yakutia.

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Mass death of herring on Sakhalin island: what is the cause?

Natural causes, or linked to oil and gas exploitation?

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UPDATED: Arctic river turns red again - two years after ‘pollution problem' supposedly fixed

Shocking puce water as nearby nickel processing plant says cause is decades of contamination in Soviet times which company is working to overcome.

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Features

Meet a lifelike 1700 year old Hun warrior with his bow and ‘whistling arrows’

Mummified archer turns up in remote museum after locals refused to hand him over to the Hermitage in St Petersburg.

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Haunting last picture before execution of the boy born to be Russia’s tsar

Image goes on display at new Tobolsk museum dedicated to the exile of Nikolai II and family shortly before they were shot.

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Yak calf born in Pleistocene Park: will a hybrid elephant-mammoth be next?

It now seems likely in a matter of years; before this, the first bison since their extinction 10,000 years ago will be re-introduced.

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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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