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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

Siberians to get a taste for Pad Thai,  Tom Yum Goong and Som Tum

Tourism Agency of Thailand (TAT) to push native gastronomy to Russian visitors.

Cannes? No, Kansk!

Accent on age: fashion blogger sets up Russia's first oldie modelling agency

Siberians to get a taste for Pad Thai,  Tom Yum Goong and Som Tum

Cannes? No, Kansk!

Accent on age: fashion blogger sets up Russia's first oldie modelling agency

Dolls showcasing the mysterious characters from ancient Buryatian legends

Giant 'snow dragon' found in Siberia

The longest sketch in the world

We are so proud of you

Team UDI shows Siberia really has got talent

Controversial artist takes sarcastic Olympics exhibit to UK

Buryat artist sculpts a big name for himself on the world stage

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Ekaterinburg Opera Theatre to open Bangkok’s International Festival of Dance & Music

Honour for one of Russia’s oldest opera theatres at 21st  annual festival in Thai capital.

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Siberians opt for Songkran soaking in influx to mark the Thai New Year

Russian tourists among the top ten arrivals to Thailand - and the top spenders after the Chinese

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Siberia Airlines stunning music video nominated for Grammy

American music band OK Go filmed Upside Down & Inside Out during 21 flights on a plane used to train cosmonauts.

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'The next stop on the Trans-Siberian railway... was designed in London'

Kamvari Architects won an open international competition to design information kiosks along the world's most famous rail route.

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Dali and Picasso get warm welcome in Mongolia
Over 200 original paintings and ceramic artworks goes on public display in Ulaanbaatar.
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New Miss Russia, 18, 'never posed as a beauty' when she grew up

Yana Dobrovolskaya ate carrots and cottage cheese, then stretched herself on horizontal bars, to gain the height needed to enter pageant.

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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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