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'Lake Baikal: the very name fills Russian hearts with awe'
Mike Carter, The Observer

World Cup goal triggers marriage proposal by Siberian doctor

Caught on video - how Tomsk medic Sergei Pokidov waited for Colombia to score before proposing to his - Colombian - girlfriend Karen-Margarita Ruiz-Correa.

World Cup causes dip in tourist numbers to Thailand

Picture: Michaela Loheit.

Women’s American Football team in Vladivostok accused of vulgarity after daring photoshoot

Krasnoyarsk on brink of winning right to host 2019 Winter University Games

Siberia to host Cyber Football World Cup in 2018 - for robots

Vladimir Putin backs Krasnoyarsk's bid to host the World Winter Student Games in 2019

Tragic death of 28 year old women's judo star Elena Ivashchenko

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

Brave foreign swimmers join hardy Russians in bid for record-breaking (and ice-breaking) swim

My crown, please! Thrilling chess finale sees Anna Ushenina win the world championship in Siberia

Tense finale underway in women's chess contest

Krasnoyarsk confirms its challenge for the 2019 World Winter Student Games

Splash! Fans of FC Tom hosed with cold water in icy welcome to Novosibirsk

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A peer traveller falls knee-deep in ice-cold water

Our reporter completes Day 4 of Baikal skating tour safe and sound.

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Flying with the wind and climbing ice poles
Our reporter Olga Gertcyk continues skating on the world's deepest lake. Enjoy Day 3 of her Baikal diary!
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I'm on the frozen surface of the world's deepest lake - and then there is an earthquake
Our reporter skates Baikal when the ice moves: Day 2 of Olga Gertcyk's diary


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Ever dreamed of skating the world’s deepest lake?

Our reporter goes through days of sleeping on ice and survives a Baikal earthquake. Baikal Trip Diary, Day 1

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They're off! The world's longest bike race covering 9,200 km across Siberia

Pedal power challenge as the Red Bull Trans-Siberian Extreme ultra-stage bicycle race heads from Moscow to Vladivostok.

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The Siberian 'Royal Races'

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

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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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