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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

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Students hospitalised with infectious pneumonia

School closed after outbreak in village in Krasnoyarsk region.

How one Siberian is using the freezing weather to better her health
It may seem unusual but sunbathing in snow and wearing nothing more than a swimming costume in -10C can help fitness.
Cold comfort: How one Siberian is using the freezing weather to better her health

It may seem unusual but sunbathing in snow and wearing nothing more than a swimming costume in -10C can help fitness.

The ultimate cure for stress, Siberian-style
Surgeon who suffered health issues turns to daredevil ski action on 'impossible' mountain slopes to relax.
The ultimate cure for stress, Siberian-style

Surgeon who suffered health issues turns to daredevil ski action on 'impossible' mountain slopes to relax.

Children given shock TB vaccine overdose 2500 times higher than permitted

More than two dozen children in hospital after blunder by medics administering Mantoux tuberculosis test.

World's media search for jailed Pussy Riot singer 'missing in Siberia'

Husband of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, says her health a 'major concern' after two hunger strikes.

Outcry over 'terrible and cruel' health care for children in Khabarovsk

'Shocking' pictures revealed online by campaign exposing the alleged failings. 

'Five week delay' in issuing warning of anthrax outbreak, claims senior veterinary regulator

Even Russia's Health Minister is on antibiotics after visiting victims of the deadly infection as numbers of infected rise.

Black snow falls in Omsk causing health concerns for residents

Soot-coloured snowfall covers the ground in Siberia's second largest city.

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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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