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Video shows methane leaking from beneath an Arctic river after spectacular eruption

Gas bubbles from waters filling crater hole on Yamal peninsula two months after volcanic-style explosion in thawing permafrost.

Are drunken trees (no, it's not the vodka!) a sign of alarming Siberian climate change?

Enough joking. New NASA-Russian research is leading to concern that global warming is causing truly disturbing changes to the virgin forests of northern Russia.

The Siberian 'Royal Races'

How horseracing and equestrian culture is developing in the Sakha Republic.

If the minister of education is reading this, you and I need to have a chat fella
It is becoming increasingly obvious that there is a dire need for changes in the education system here.
Young women 'froze to death after refusing to spend night with male friends' in hut

The two fled on foot in minus 35C rather than stay with the men in remote hut in the taiga in Sakha Republic.

Found: man who vanished before the Soviet Union collapsed to live as a hermit

Former paratrooper conscript Timofey Menshikov wanted to escape modern life - and vodka - now faces reunion with family he left behind.

Siberian financial whizz-kid appointed to lead Russian science

Deputy finance minister Mikhail Kotyukov, 36, given key job amid 'crisis' over science reforms.

Why I want to marry serial killer who butchered 49 victims... and have his baby

Meet the woman who says: 'I will always be there for my maniac'.

Britain's Charlie Simpson in the freezer as he seeks world record by singing at the Pole of Cold
Publicity for the 'Jagermeister Ice Cold Gig' suggested the solo singer, formerly of Busted, would be performing in -40C in the Siberian town of Oymyakon.
English-speaking 'forest boy' nicknamed 'Siberian Mowgli' born and raised in the Altai wilderness

He is believed to be 20, born in the wild, never went to school, received no vaccinations, and was cut off from civilisation.

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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.

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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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