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Jon Pearson (Telegraph Online)

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 fan of online media? A brown bear steals and tears a newspaper from rangers' hut

Air China Boeing 777 makes emergency landing in Russia's easternmost town

One of the world’s rarest big cats found badly wounded in the Far East of Russia

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

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

Reindeer crisis in Yamalo-Nenets as number of deaths rise

Unique experiment as endangered ‘young tiger couple’ to be returned into the wild

Business mission in Kuril Islands signals a new era for Russia and Japan

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

Sparkling Far East of Russia - Indian KGK to invest $50 million into a diamond-cutting factory

Players tee off with red balls for golf on the world's deepest lake

Tragedy as runner dies from 'cardiac arrest' during Baikal ice marathon

Woman pulls two trams full of passengers weighing 36 tons - in minus 20 cold

DiCaprio formally invited to visit Siberia after winning 'people's Oscar' from Yakutians

DiCaprio warns of climate change threat as he accepts 'Siberian Oscar'

The Siberian ice bucket challenge: Tomsk beats New York

DiCaprio's Siberian Oscar heads for the US

How Siberia's famous swamp could become the next big winter tourist draw

Splash! Skier plunges into -15C Lake Baikal after hitting thin ice

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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.

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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