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Pensioner with pacemaker uses pitchfork to fight off endangered Amur tiger, the world's largest cat

When this failed, Vitaly Saidov grabbed his gun and shot dead the predator to save himself and his family.

Siberian grandmother hailed the Queen of Flex for reading rap in freezing waters of Lake Baikal

Call to avoid 'mob rule' amid mass anger in Yakutsk after ‘kidnap and rape’ by ‘Kyrgyz migrant’

A ‘meteor’ turns evening ‘bright and warm’ in the north of Siberia

Miraculous escape for man who turns into ‘human Frankenstein’ after freak accident

Ultimate love as hero mother Gerda shows off her polar bear cubs in Novosibirsk Zoo

Ancient cave lions had spots, believe scientists, after analysing cub preserved in permafrost

Extinct ancient foal in pioneering cloning experiment is older than initially believed

Cloning of mammoth will be successful in 10 years, predicts head of region earmarked for their home

Concern over raging wildfires as smoke from Siberia crosses Alaska and Canada, reaching New England

Blood coloured rain in Arctic? A biblical plague? The apocalypse? What’s going on?

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

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

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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Excavating the thick ice under a whole ship at bone-chilling minus 50C?

This is precisely how Yakutia gets its impressive river fleet ready for the new season of navigation.

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Incredible journey to the land where winter begins, the place winter is born

In this exclusive report, Yakutian photographer Nariyana Romanova takes us on a magical journey through her kingdom of ice.

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Features

Flair to avoid snow glare - dazzling eye fashion from 2,000 years ago until today

Siberian goggles among the world’s earliest eyewear to prevent winter blindness from the sun’s piercing reflection.

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Russian military sent to assess giant rockfall blocking Bureya River

Urgent measures underway to evacuate residents of remote villages after flood threat caused by rising water above new ‘dam’.

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Found: man who vanished before the Soviet Union collapsed to live as a hermit

Former paratrooper conscript Timofey Menshikov wanted to escape modern life - and vodka - now faces reunion with family he left behind.

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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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