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'Kolchak was 'like an Englishman'-the analogy oddly recurs in an official Soviet account of the execution'
Peter Fleming, 'The Fate of Admiral Kolchak'

Lake Baikal 'holds key to new advances in antibiotics'

Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.

Siberia's best-kept tourism secret

World's deepest lake shrouded in smoke, swimmers covered in ash

Lake Baikal 'holds key to new advances in antibiotics'

Siberia's best-kept tourism secret

World's deepest lake shrouded in smoke, swimmers covered in ash

First images released from stunning film about bears of the Russian Far East

Please support this brave girl who was only given a week to live

Help us fund documentaries to showcase our stunning wildlife

Please support this new 'Happy People' film on Siberia's superb Altai Mountains

Books needed for the best Siberian library in the mountains!

'Are you completely out of your mind? Has vodka damaged the last Russian brain cell?'

Another look back at remarkable moments of 2013

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News

Polar bear grabs 50,000-year-old breakfast - a hairy leg of woolly mammoth found by scientists

Shots fired at island campsite to scare away beast which then drops ancient limb preserved in permafrost since prehistoric times.

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Suspected first trace of Beringia people on the land bridge - now mostly sunken - joining Russia an...

Most northerly palaeolithic site found on Arctic island of Stolbovoy, part of lost continental link between Siberia and Alaska, believe scientists.

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Huge ‘hairy sea monster’ washes up on Pacific coast: what can it be?

A giant furry octopus? Remains of a woolly mammoth? An unknown primeval creature from the deep?

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Features

Thailand conquers Siberia as massage revolution reaches even the coldest corners of the world

Thai massage experts impress Russian clients in how they take the stress out of life and restore SPArkle in extreme climate.

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Siberian tourists help to change image of Pattaya to family resort

Once branded ‘Sin City’, the popular Thai resort is changing, says Travel Trade Gazette Asia

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Where the Gods play football - amazing Arctic island fit for Champions as World Cup reaches climax

Giant natural balls in the Franz Josef archipelago that leave scientists flummoxed.

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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.

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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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