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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

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Like ducks to water in the snow - keeping kids healthy Siberian style

It is a medical fact that children are healthier if they daily run out into the snow in their swimming costumes - and pour a bucket of cold water over their heads.

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

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

The American girl caught between two worlds

Neglected by her parents as well as a 'stepfather from hell': Will no-one help this teenager stranded 6,000 miles from home?

Irkutsk to get futuristic new $58 million Smart School, unique in the world

Stunning new Danish-designed buildings will offer new hope to orphans and their adoptive families.

Every other article about Russia in the British media manages to slip in a mention of Soviet history

It is quite ironic seeing as the current British government are engaged in purges of the poor and disabled.

Go East to go West for your children

Think Thailand, and probably schools are not the first thing to come into your head.

Suspected first trace of Beringia people on the land bridge - now mostly sunken - joining Russia and North America

Most northerly palaeolithic site found on Arctic island of Stolbovoy, part of lost continental link between Siberia and Alaska, believe scientists.

My new life as an honorary Siberian

Siberia isn’t simply a land full of bears, spies and nuclear reactors... it is also now my duty to help my fellow Siberians understand my home country.