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'Please will you get a message to my wife in Paris, to say I bless my son?-reported final words of Admiral Kolchak'

French forced to endure London pub in Irkutsk as they are ‘stuck in Siberia’ after emergency landing

Air France Boeing 777 with 282 on board suffered technical failure, then the rescue aircraft sent from Paris was also grounded.

Snow tsunami shows winter arriving, as pictures show ice halo and noodles in the Siberian cold

Dog rescued after tail and hind legs get frozen on iced lake

Teenage dies a hero after saving his cousin from bear attack

25 polar bears plus cubs besiege village of Ryrkaypiy in Chukotka

Hero dog that saved owner during three weeks lost in chilly Siberian wilderness has died

Cute first pictures of new 50,000 year old cave lion cub found perfectly preserved in permafrost

Puzzle over Arctic ‘breeding and dying ground’ for ancient animals from woolly mammoth era

New tests underway on Mona Lisa of geo-archeology - a bone that proves man hunted woolly mammoth

Mass death of herring on Sakhalin island: what is the cause?

UPDATED: Arctic river turns red again - two years after ‘pollution problem' supposedly fixed

Reindeer crisis in Yamalo-Nenets as number of deaths rise

No Go for Go-Go Bars as Thailand aims for quality and family tourism

Yoga at -41C on the famous Baikal-Amur Mainline railway

Fan killed in fight between rival football club fans in Novosibirsk

Russia in ‘remarkable recovery story’ as number of visitors to Phuket soar

Record pink rough diamond found by Alrosa subsidiary in Siberia 

Russia offers a bridge across history to connect Tokyo to the Trans-Siberian railway 

Burning angel gets second degree burns to win $350 prize at snow festival

Don't mess with Siberia's strongest woman as she deals with crazy driver

Dali and Picasso get warm welcome in Mongolia

Siberians mark end of the snow season with annual swimsuit skiing day

New Miss Russia, 18, 'never posed as a beauty' when she grew up

Row as schoolchildren aged 7 to 16 taught to pole dance

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Features

‘Mowgli girl’ who survived alone aged 4 in bear infested wild for 12 nights becomes young ballerina

Amazing Karina Chikitova in 2014 captured the hearts of people around the world after staying alive with her dog in wild: now she is thriving.

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Unique 19th century English steam engine found in the depths of Siberian taiga

This witness to the Siberian gold rush might be the only one left in the world.

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Peek inside the Siberian cave where inter-species love child ‘Denny’ lived 90,000 years ago

13 year old revealed as the daughter of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father - separate humanoid groups now proven to have crossbred.

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Features

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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Haunting last picture before execution of the boy born to be Russia’s tsar

Image goes on display at new Tobolsk museum dedicated to the exile of Nikolai II and family shortly before they were shot.

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Yak calf born in Pleistocene Park: will a hybrid elephant-mammoth be next?

It now seems likely in a matter of years; before this, the first bison since their extinction 10,000 years ago will be re-introduced.

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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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