A 6.4-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Siberia, no casualties reported
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s Altai Republic in southern Siberia on Saturday morning, according to Russian ...
I lived in Russia under Putin. There are parallels to what’s happening in the U.S. now
Many of President Donald Trump’s recent moves have the authoritarian reek of what I saw in Russia when Mr. Putin was in his ...
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Inside Siberia's 'megaslump' – and why it is getting bigger
In other words, the megaslump is "slowly encroaching upon the landscape like a living thing", said Treehugger. Locals in Siberia have mixed feelings about the unusual chasm, said Yahoo News.
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The Siberian city of Irkutsk, a ‘Russia in miniature’
Irkutsk is in fact the dam that holds and controls this huge expanse of water, uniting parts of the whole of Siberia in a special version of the ‘one indivisible Russia’. The Irkutsk ...
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On Siberia's Ice Highway
Every winter in Russia's east, rivers that vein the enormous open spaces of Siberia freeze solid. Once the cold begins to bite, life for most people in the region turns inward. But for one group ...
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Idea of relocating Russia’s capital city to Irkutsk in Siberia not feasible — Kremlin
MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov believes that the idea of relocating Russia’s capital city from Moscow to Irkutsk in southeastern Siberia is simply not practicable.