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'Lake Baikal, where the ice queen cast her spell'

Mike Carter, The Observer, 2009

Dog walks 200km across taiga as she looks for owners who rejected her

Maru was sent back to the kennels where she was born on Trans-Siberian railway by 'allergic' owner, but escaped the train.

Hell on fire! Raging bush inferno at Batagai Depression, giant gash in the tundra

The world’s most unusual beach is a glacier in Russia’s Kingdom of Permafrost

Ropeway of friendship

Coal heads to Korean countries as part of joint North-South operation

UTAir begins regular weekly flights to new airport in the Arctic

World Cup causes dip in tourist numbers to Thailand

Siberian teenager wins silver in shooting thanks to hunting lessons from age of 6

Major new ice hockey stadium to be built in Novosibirsk

Extinct tigers, dogs, deer and bison to join woolly mammoths being cloned back to life

Holding hands for 5,000 years, a couple with mysterious jade rings and dagger

New method of fighting cancer developed by Siberian scientists

Ekaterinburg Opera Theatre to open Bangkok’s International Festival of Dance & Music

DiCaprio wins Siberian Oscar

World famous ballet star Sergei Polunin returns to Siberia

Stinking poisoned water flows towards Siberia from mining city Ridder in Kazakhstan

Fears over Sakhalin oil spill amid contrary claims on size of disaster

The two worst polluted cities in Russia are Siberia's Chita and Ulan-Ude

Thailand wants more tourists from Siberia

Blood donor movement in Novosibirsk is the best in Russia

Summer fun in Siberia

Rent-a-cat to take away your stress

Traces found of bear thought to have died out decades ago

We ate our friend who died of cold after we got lost in taiga, admits fisherman

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Race against time and waves as Russian archaeologists rescue Siberia’s remarkable Atlantis

Sensational underwater treasures - including mummies of Hun-era fashionistas - recaptured from oblivion.

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Siberian hermit, 75, who ‘lives in 18th century’ refuses to be moved by Space Age

Agafya Lykova rejects leaving her remote house even though debris from coming rocket launch could fall dangerously close.

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Ice tsunami in the extreme north of Russia means summer is finally here

Residents of Dudinka share this impressive - ok, scary! - video of ice breaking on the Yenisei River.

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Siberian tourists return to Russian after birth of their first child while on honeymoon in Thailand

Couple thank Thai and Russian doctors who save their premature miracle baby.

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Ever dreamed of skating the world’s deepest lake?

Our reporter goes through days of sleeping on ice and survives a Baikal earthquake. Baikal Trip Diary, Day 1

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Proof of a 2,000 kilometre polar trade route in volcanic glass dating back at least 8,000 years

Valuable obsidian travelled during Early Holocene times from Lake Krasnoe in Chukotka to Zhokhov Island deep in the Arctic.

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Dog walks 200km across taiga as she looks for owners who rejected her

Hell on fire! Raging bush inferno at Batagai Depression, giant gash in the tundra

The world’s most unusual beach is a glacier in Russia’s Kingdom of Permafrost

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