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'On the Eve of the First World War, the single Siberian province of Irkutsk was larger than all of India'
W.Bruce Lincoln

Chimpanzees in Siberian nature park watch cartoons to stay in good mood during Covid-19 crisis

Intelligent primates miss seeing visitors, and get depressed in quarantine.

Video shows frightened leopard cub fleeing raging wildfires in eastern Russia

Angry passengers storm out of a Siberian airport after hours of waiting for quarantine papers

Single father deserts his two children at Moscow airport with note begging to help

Vladivostok customs stopped a radioactive Toyota Prius that arrived from Japan

Cloned laika dog supermum gives birth to her second litter of 7 puppies in 7 months

Siberian scientists find bacteria that could live on Mars

Homo sapiens or Denisovans? Who made stunning cave jewellery and artefacts up to 48,000 years ago?

Ancient coloured ‘pencil’ up to 50,000 years old found in Siberia

Rarest big cats in the world reach key milestone in evading extinction

Giant cat with appetite to eat dogs trapped in unique operation in eastern Russia

Sadness as tigress who came in from wild to ask for human help dies

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'

Tokyo to London by train? Ambitious new plan links Trans-Siberian to Japan

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

Director of Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre fired in religious backlash

Court throws out claims Novosibirsk opera offended Orthodox believers

Chocks away! Siberia’s unusual airborne world record attempt

Foreign visitor to Siberia takes part in coldest ever Ice Bucket Challenge

Born in royal capital St Petersburg under the last tsar, Alexander Kaptarenko dies aged 102

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

No fun on Siberia's pistes? Check out this film!

Siberia warmed up by New York, say US scientists

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The day the world’s most polluted city was in Siberia

Pictures show the impact of smog in Krasnoyarsk, as it scored worse for air quality than Mumbai, Dhaka and Kolkata.

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The Leo Express: a rescued Amur leopard is sent on a 9h flight across Russia to cure back tumour

One of world’s rarest big cats was hit by a car and went through months of treatment at the rescue centre in Russian Far East.

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Admiral Kolchak’s archive has returned to Russia 100 years after his execution

A group of Russian billionaires spent over 3 million euro at French auction to buy historic papers of the man who tried - and failed - to halt Bolsheviks.

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Indian elephants escape circus, go for a snow bath in Yekaterinburg

Runaway duo blocks traffic in the centre of the city as they splash in the snow.

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Arctic island woolly mammoth shows strongest evidence yet of human slaughter and butchering
Ancient men cut all the meat, severed the trunk, removed the brain and pulled out bone marrow from all the limbs.
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The world’s rarest big cat is filmed in stunning video in Far East of Russia

Congratulations to South Korean photographer Choi Kisoon for getting unique footage.

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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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