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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
Labour camps
Russia is poised to release to Tokyo records shedding light on fate of Japanese prisoners of war
The documents are expected to help Japan understand the fate of thousands of PoWs in Siberia after the end of the Second World War.
Two cloned dogs start work guarding prisoners at Forced Labour Camp #1 in Yakutsk
Designer animals bred by South Korean cloning laboratory showed skills 'beyond all expectations' in their first three weeks with the penal service.
Vacation in a gulag: are you ready for the ultimate Siberian holiday?
Tourist camps to be built at Stalinist camps where millions perished in the Soviet era, under new plan.
...yet still they remember times spent in Siberia with nostalgia
More than 500,000 soldiers and officers of the former Kwantung Army were sent to camps in Siberia and the Far East.
Convicts in former Stalin labour camp region eyeing 'Chateau Permafrost' wine
Prisoners proudly growing vines in Kolyma where the average annual temperature is minus 3C.
Heartrending letters from within the Soviet-era Siberian GULAGs
Examples of letters and drawings secretly passed to relatives from prisoners in Soviet labour camps gone on display in Moscow.
Expectant mothers face unexpected surprise as brown bear checks out a maternity hospital
Not quite a bull in a china shop but the worried women experienced hard labour as their birth clinic was besieged in the Sakha Republic.
Expectant mothers face unexpected surprise as brown bear checks out a maternity hospital
Not quite a bull in a china shop but the worried women experienced hard labour as their birth clinic was besieged in Yakutia.
Bust of Stalin ruled illegal and likely to be torn down
Statue to Soviet dictator erected close to proposed memorial to his victims of political repression is labelled 'blasphemy’.
A permanent exile in Siberia for Stalin, the man who sent millions here?
Communists want Soviet dictator immortalised forever in stone.
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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.
Business
The Bank of Russia official exchange rates of foreign currencies
