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'Kolchak was 'like an Englishman'-the analogy oddly recurs in an official Soviet account of the execution'
Peter Fleming, 'The Fate of Admiral Kolchak'

Next ‘stop’ Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean?

Toxic fuel from 21,000 ton leak reaches pristine lake, bypassing floating booms, as rivers of diesel pollution cover-up is exposed.

Pure waters of Lake Baikal in danger from 6.5 million tons of toxic waste

Rare Siberian Saker Falcon illegally caught and sold for $42,000 to an UAE buyer

Next ‘stop’ Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean?

Pure waters of Lake Baikal in danger from 6.5 million tons of toxic waste

Rare Siberian Saker Falcon illegally caught and sold for $42,000 to an UAE buyer

How poaching is 'killing off' the world's largest reindeer herd on Taimyr Peninsula

Gone: endemic Baikal sponge has died completely in several areas of the vast lake

Unmasked: the scale of Arctic junk polluting the pristine environment

Recent forest fires 'destroyed' 2 million hectares - 'an unprecedented catastrophe in Siberia'

If you love Baikal, become a 'people's scientist' to save it from stinking algae

British claim Arctic to be ice free this year is 'incorrect' and 'hasty', say Russian scientists

Extreme warnings issued that Lake Baikal could 'drain dry like the Aral Sea'

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Troops set to work decontaminating ‘Siberian Chernobyl’ amid fears of ecological catastrophe

Radiation, chemical and biological forces tackle two million tonnes of toxic chemical waste with huge mercury stockpile and oil poisons.

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2019 to be ‘worst-ever year’ for wildfires in Siberia and ‘only rain can now extinguish flames’

Military fully engaged in minimising carnage, but water sprayed by planes to extinguish infernos is ‘as expensive as Champagne’.

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The abandoned chemicals plant that could trigger ‘an environmental disaster akin to Chernobyl’

The Usolyekhimprom facility, disused due to bankruptcy in 2017, is a ‘toxic catastrophe waiting to happen’.

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Don’t feed the lost polar bear! warn Russian experts as rescue poised to begin

The animal is pictured at Norilsk garbage dump, a police convoy following its every move.

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Starving polar bear 'can hardly move', say residents of Norilsk

Emaciated animal walked 1500km south and away from Arctic Ocean, searching for food.

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Reindeer crisis in Yamalo-Nenets as number of deaths rise

‘Thousands’ perish amid calls for a state of emergency in the region, with fears anthrax vaccine is a cause of death.

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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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