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'Who are you, a Korean or a Russian?' I ask a taxi driver

'We're Russian Koreans,' comes the reply.

The Babushka of Baikal, the granny in her 80th year who has popularised the world’s deepest lake

Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.

'American girl' exiled to Siberia to press charges against her father

Her US mom still refuses to take back the daughter who 'loves her', and who she abandoned in Russia 32 months ago.

Hackers target military city home to Russia's new space cosmodrome

Is it a case of 'space race sabotage' as suspicion falls on Middle Eastern group with pages blanked out by Arabic writing stating 'Peace Be With You'?

Vladimir Putin in Siberia to mark the 100th anniversary of legendary ace pilot Alexander Pokryshkin

The president's visit to Novosibirsk honours one of the Soviet Union's great heroes but also set the course for future Russian military aviation.

Happy ending for black bear cub craving human contact

Often bears encroaching towns are shot, but in Dalnegorsk they spared the life of 'too friendly' wild animal.

Russian gun-maker and patriot, Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47, dies aged 94

Siberian-born national hero worked well into his 80s as the planet's most famous weapons designer.

Punished for showing real-life Soviet Siberia

Photographers win praise for work which had them in trouble with the Communist Party and KGB.

Top dancer Sergei Polunin smiling again as he performs in Siberia after quitting London

One of the world's great dancers is rediscovering his passion for ballet in Novosibirsk after dramatically quitting the Royal Ballet in the United Kingdom.