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'In the winter he skated and Nadya thought him rather too showy with his style of strutting like a chicken'
Robert Service on Lenin's exile in Siberia

Siberians mark end of the snow season with swimsuit skiing day

Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.

Waiting for Leo DiCaprio

Switch the black sky off, demand residents of Krasnoyarsk

We must be faster than fear

Siberia open for business despite sanctions

Vladimir Putin demands action to develop regional air routes

Economic boom expected for Siberia due to agreement between Russia and China

Only the ill, the elderly and the pregnant stay in cities during the May holidays

Siberian scientists prove Russia has right to huge Arctic mineral resources

Russia looks East not West for future prosperity

Inspirational women who show the beauty of Siberia

'Siberia is the best place for tourism in the world' - says Kremlin

Russia's capital city should move from Moscow to Siberia

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Chimpanzees in Siberian nature park watch cartoons to stay in good mood during Covid-19 crisis

Intelligent primates miss seeing visitors, and get depressed in quarantine.

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Video shows frightened leopard cub fleeing raging wildfires in eastern Russia

Kitten is one of the world’s rarest big cats, with only 91 known adults surviving in the wild.

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Angry passengers storm out of a Siberian airport after hours of waiting for quarantine papers
Nearly 700 people got stuck inside a small waiting area as two flights from Thailand landed in Krasnoyarsk.
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Features

The day the world’s most polluted city was in Siberia

Pictures show the impact of smog in Krasnoyarsk, as it scored worse for air quality than Mumbai, Dhaka and Kolkata.

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The Leo Express: a rescued Amur leopard is sent on a 9h flight across Russia to cure back tumour

One of world’s rarest big cats was hit by a car and went through months of treatment at the rescue centre in Russian Far East.

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Admiral Kolchak’s archive has returned to Russia 100 years after his execution

A group of Russian billionaires spent over 3 million euro at French auction to buy historic papers of the man who tried - and failed - to halt Bolsheviks.

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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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