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It's not getting better... Siberia remains worst-hit as 175,000 firefighters battle forest blazes

New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.

Mystery gets murkier over cloud that turned day into night

No official explanations for darkness over swathes of Yakutia amid conspiracy theories of a UFO, new weapons tests, a meteorite, or pollution from wildfires.

Sasha, the world's only baby woolly rhino, is 34,000 years old, say scientists

Video and pictures show experts conducting initial autopsy on the extinct creature preserved by permafrost.

Sasha, the world's only baby woolly rhino, is 34,000 years old, say scientists

Video and pictures show experts conducting initial autopsy on the extinct creature preserved by permafrost.

Glittering vacation in Siberia - take your holiday in a diamond mine

Russia's gem capital Mirny, one of the country's most remote locations, wants an influx of tourists.

World’s northernmost Palaeolithic settlement found on Kotelny island in the Arctic

Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.

How one car (almost) beat the frozen wilds of Yakutia

Journalists test Chinese Geely on epic 10,000km journey from Belarus and find it performs well in the harsh climate - even if they did have to wear ski clothes.

Putting the Power into Siberia

Construction launched on 3,968 kilometre 'Power of Siberia' gas pipeline.

DiCaprio: will he be sent to Siberia TWICE?

Actor is being awarded the Siberian Oscar (if he arrives to collect it) - but is also now wanted as a tourism guru after 'blunder' on Urals pollution.