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A peer traveller falls knee-deep in ice-cold water

Our reporter completes Day 4 of Baikal skating tour safe and sound.

Flying with the wind and climbing ice poles

Anton, the guy with big heart and personality. Picture: Olga Gertcyk / The Siberian Times.

I'm on the frozen surface of the world's deepest lake - and then there is an earthquake

Sakhyurta village the morning we start skating. Picture: Olga Gertcyk / Siberian Times

The Siberian parents who gave up Jessica Long as a new-born baby salute her heroic achievement

The ultimate cure for stress, Siberian-style

I'm on the frozen surface of the world's deepest lake - and then there is an earthquake

For star American swimmer Jessica Long, it will be an emotional homecoming

A peer traveller falls knee-deep in ice-cold water

Siberian star Vladimir Tarasenko was named NHL Rookie of the Month after scoring five goals

Maria Sharapova admits Siberia gives her 'goosebumps'

The Siberian 'Royal Races'

They're off! The world's longest bike race covering 9,200 km across Siberia

Unique group for elderly women practising the art of Japanese Aikido is the only one in the world

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World Cup goal triggers marriage proposal by Siberian doctor

Caught on video - how Tomsk medic Sergei Pokidov waited for Colombia to score before proposing to his - Colombian - girlfriend Karen-Margarita Ruiz-Correa.

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World Cup causes dip in tourist numbers to Thailand

Russians staying home for football festival while the country also sees as influx of visitors who might otherwise come to Thailand

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Women’s American Football team in Vladivostok accused of vulgarity after daring photoshoot

Players aimed to break stereotypes about what females can do - but their poses have caused a storm on social media.

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Fan killed in fight between rival football club fans in Novosibirsk

Rare outbreak of 'hooliganism' in build-up to FIFA World Cup leaves 30 year old father dead 'from cracked temple and broken neck’.

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Burning angel gets second degree burns to win $350 prize at snow festival

Anton Redkov, 26, wedding planner from Novosibirsk, risks his life in flaming stunt

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Don't mess with Siberia's strongest woman as she deals with crazy driver

Powerlifter Oksana Kosheleva gets road rage, pulls motorist out of his vehicle, carries him over her shoulder, and locks him in the trunk of her car.

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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.

We say

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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