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American academic in mission to preserve two of Siberia's rarest dialects

Anthropologist Dr Alexander King is poised to rebase from Aberdeen University in Scotland to the Kamchatka Peninsula, with his family.

American academic in mission to preserve two of Siberia's rarest dialects

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Poland to unveil its first feature film on families deported to Siberia during II World War

Award-winning director and screenwriter Janusz Zaorski says members of his own family were sent into exile in the east of Russia during the war years.

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