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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

The breathtaking real-life Swan Lake in Siberia

The most inspiring family picture you will see this year!

Kemerovo is a beautiful city

Sign of the future?

Remains of the remarkable tattooed 'princess' are to go on public display

For your travelling diaries - the Siberian Sakura

Welcome to Siberian Business Plus aka SibBiz+

Welcome to the 'Baikal Ice Fairytale'

Bears on the street, never ending snow, cold - what else?

Welcome to the (official) first day of Spring

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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

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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Lonely dog Volya finds loving home in the West

Mongrel trapped for three years in a tiny cold and dark cavity gets new start in Germany after our story about her plight went around the world.

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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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