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'If you emptied Lake Baikal, it would take every river in the world flowing into it a year to fill.'
Mike Carter, The Observer, 2009
synthetic drugs Siberia
Siberian and Far East regions hit by drugs menace, shows a new league table
7 out of top 10 regions for confiscations are in Siberia or Russian Far East.
Russian government acts against substances in destructive synthetic drugs
Premier Dmitry Medvedev bans 'spice' ingredients after 7 deaths and mass poisoning in western Siberia.
Turn the heating up high! Village kept warm by illegal drugs
The municipal heating system burns narcotics including heroin seized from traffickers.
Children make 'soup' of hard drugs during playtime at kindergarten
Three girls in coma after using lethal designer narcotics during their game.
Horrific new mind-bending drug kills 7 and poisons 180 in western Siberia
Fresh graves at Surgut cemetery of young people killed by unidentified designer narcotic.
Shocking naked pictures highlight the toll of new synthetic drugs
Lethal mind-changing designer narcotics - 'a new one every three days' - are virtually impossible to curb, warn experts and police.
Three-year-old boy thrown out of window by father on drugs
Hallucinations from new synthetic substance made man think his home was full of gas and he needed to save his son.
US pathologist 'found suspicious marks' on US man who officially died of 'hypothermia' in Siberia
Forensic tests underway in America as mother appeals for Russian witnesses, alleging 'foul play' and police 'cover-up’.
Kidnapped? Abused? Buried alive during 10 missing days? Left for dead? Or...?
After her ordeal, Yulia Romanova, 34, cannot yet speak in intensive care: what dark secrets is she trying to tell?
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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.
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