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Sochi Olympics

Siberia joins national effort to make the Sochi Olympics safe and successful

1,500 Interior Ministry troops deployed in host city for Winter Olympics.

Siberian children to start the Olympic flame's longest ever journey

Children from Yakutsk - the coldest city in the world - will start next year's flame relay for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Olympic flame to warm Siberia on longest torch relay in history

Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the flame will twice cross Siberia, once from west to east, then east to west.

Centenarian uses a frozen salmon to practice for his role in Olympic torch relay

The flame warms Siberia and even takes a dip in Lake Baikal en route to the Sochi Winter Games.

British princess has a Siberian escort in Sochi

How an entrepreneur and cinema producer from Lake Baikal became driver to the UK's Princess Royal at the Winter Olympics.

Skater Yulia Lipnitskaya, 15, steals the Olympic show in Sochi

'Genius' teenager from the Urals helps Russian figure skating team to first gold medal.

Leading Siberian scientists protect Winter Olympics from threat of bio-terror virus attacks

Special testing kits sent to Sochi amid 'fears from Japan' and other countries over risk from deliberate deadly disease strike.

Siberian company feeling the heat over Olympic torch for Sochi 2014
Kransnoyarsk company under scrutiny over torch which 'ignites in flames'...or 'fails to stay lit'.
Controversial artist takes sarcastic Olympics exhibit to UK
London calling for the man whose dark humour surrounding Sochi led to 'censorship'.
Controversial artist takes sarcastic Olympics exhibit to UK

London calling for the man whose dark humour surrounding Sochi led to 'censorship'.

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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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