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'Lake Baikal's ability to purify itself is down to an endemic microscopic shrimp called epischura baikalensis'
'Sacred Sea', Peter Thomson

Frantic bid to save Umka the lost and forlorn polar bear who travelled 700 km in the wrong direction on ice floe

Lame, exhausted and confused animal seeks out help from the local police in Olyutorsky district of Kamchatka.

Scientists dissect 42,000 year old extinct male foal preserved in permafrost for cloning bid - video

Unique in palaeontology: Liquid blood found inside a prehistoric 42,000 year old foal

Train on Trans-Siberian railway goes through wall of fire from grass and forest inferno

Horror as children's ice playground goes up in flames in Irkutsk

How Karl Lagerfeld’s father was interned in Arctic by last tsar as a 'German spy'

2,000 year old mummified ‘sleeping beauty’ dressed in silk emerges from Siberian reservoir

50,000 year old Siberian bones may be the ‘oldest Homo sapiens' outside Africa and Middle East

Silicon Taiga can become a reality to drive Russia forward, Vladimir Putin urged

Lost but happy eating fish: the polar bear that strayed 700 km too far south

Hungry, exhausted, only half their normal weight: Tragedy for black bears

Flying to save the rarest big cat in the world

$11 billion Chinese scheme to develop Lake Baikal's tourism hub

Sea launch floating spaceport owned by S7 Group targets dozen launches in 5 years

'Let wealthy tourists buy more expensive diamonds for their wives and girlfriends'

Karate world champion murdered in case that has shocked city

Dream still alive for Siberian dance group in Britain's Got Talent

Rising actor found dead amid conflicting reports over what happened

Team UDI through to semi-final of Britain's Got Talent

Schoolgirl sets off on 112km expedition to ski to the geographical North Pole

First-ever underwater ice hockey matches held in Siberia

Siberian scientists tell women the best moment to conceive - in a message flashed to their phones

Siberia 'wins' the world record for bikini ski-ing

How do men impress women in the planet's coldest city? Easy - with the coolest dance in the world

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Features

I'm on the frozen surface of the world's deepest lake - and then there is an earthquake
Our reporter skates Baikal when the ice moves: Day 2 of Olga Gertcyk's diary


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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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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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