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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.

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

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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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Iconic mammoth hotel planned for Lake Baikal with soaring-100 metre high tusks

Sculptor Dashi Namdakov pays homage to extinct woolly giant in innovative design aimed at becoming Buryatia's 'brand'.

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Siberian Rapunzel goes into Russian records book with her 139 centimetre mane

Nina Bychkova, 12, from Novosibirsk is now aiming at the world crown.

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Skin and bones boy aged 11 rescued after weighing in at just 11 kg due to 'food torture'

Foster mother blamed for depriving the child from eating properly, and giving him pills to make him sick after food.

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Features

Dire threat to 'sparkling jewel' beach where nature turned pollution into beauty

Old glass bottles dumped by man were crafted by the sea into a magical tourist attraction, but the sight will be gone in 20 years, says expert.

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Science 'to answer Russian royal mystery': did tsar stage death to become Siberian monk?

Officially, Alexander I died of typhus aged 47 on 1 December 1825, but evidence suggests he faked his demise and lived as a holy man.

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Tied up in his grave, the strange 'dancing skeleton' of Ust-Ivanovka

Dark Ages man aged around 30 found in a medieval graveyard for unusually old people in the Russian Far East.

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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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