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Siberians mark end of the snow season with swimsuit skiing day

Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.

Waiting for Leo DiCaprio

Switch the black sky off, demand residents of Krasnoyarsk

Siberians mark end of the snow season with swimsuit skiing day

Waiting for Leo DiCaprio

Switch the black sky off, demand residents of Krasnoyarsk

Pollution 'crisis' in Lake Baikal

'I once lived in a country where we only had Aeroflot: I didn't like it'

What happened when a Siberian village gave up alcohol?

Russia's vast collection of Lenin statues finally finds a new purpose

We never forget the victims of the Beslan school terrorist outrage

Women told to make sure they get enough sleep or risk a stroke or heart attack

Baikal 'no longer the cleanest lake on Earth'

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Mass deaths of reindeer on Yamal peninsula might be linked to climate change, scientists believe
Thousands of domestic and wild animals perished because they couldn’t get to forage locked under ice.
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Ice on fire: first wildfires are registered around the world’s Pole of Cold in Yakutia

Could burning ground in an area as extremely cold as Oymyakon be caused by zombie fires?

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Rare falcons are tattooed to escape being sold to Arab sheikhs by poachers

Desperate attempt to protect saker falcons known as the feathery treasure of Siberia.

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Unique 2,000-year-old statuette of dancing man, likely made in Northern India, dug up in Siberia

Mystery how the bronze dancer, his arms raised in an ecstatic trance, reached modern-day Novosibirsk region.

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Stunning visuals of a black panther playing in the snowy woods of Siberia shared by owner

Luna the panther was rescued from a travelling zoo when its mother refused to feed the cub.

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The Babushka of Baikal, the granny in her 80th year who has popularised the world’s deepest lake

Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.

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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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