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The church at the end of the world – photo essay

Perched atop a scree hill north of the village, a Russian Orthodox church keeps watch over the Antarctic outpost Villa Las Estrellas. It was built in 2002 from wood shipped from the Siberian city of Altay and its bells were brought from Vladimir, a city east of Moscow

The Guardian - US

Paradise review – visually striking account of Siberian wildfires leans towards abstraction

Alexander Abaturov’s stunning film captures the resilience of villagers in remote Shologon, but feels contextless

The Guardian - UK

At least 21 dead as wildfires rage across Urals and Siberia

Dead are mainly elderly people unable to flee, Russia media report

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Russia's wildfire death toll rises to 21 in Ural Mountains

The death toll from wildfires in Russia’s Ural Mountains has risen to 21, according to Russian state news agency Tass

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Wildfires rage in Russia's Ural mountains, Siberia

Wildfires have raged in Russia’s Ural mountains and in Siberia this week, with authorities promising to swiftly contain them

The Independent UK

Who owned this Stone Age jewellery? New forensic tools offer an unprecedented answer

An international team of researchers has recovered DNA from the owner of a deer-tooth pendant that was buried inside a remote Siberian cave for tens of thousands of years.

The Conversation

Russian TV pundit makes bizarre call for Scots 'terrorists' to be trained in Siberia to fight in Ukraine

The comments were broadcast on a Russian news show and were widely mocked on social media.

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Offshore cash and huge loans: leak reveals how Roman Abramovich funded Chelsea’s success

Exclusive: Network of companies used to route fortune made from the oil fields of Siberia into Stamford Bridge

The Guardian - UK

Huge swathes of Vladimir Putin’s Russia see internet cut off in mystery outage

Unprecedented massive web problems hit large regions across Siberia and the Russian Far East, and spanned many of Vladimir Putin’s 11 zones

Daily Mirror

International Criminal Court has cited Russia's deportation of Ukrainian children a war crime: on Russia's long history of weaponising deportation

On March 17, the International Criminal Court cited Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian children as a war crime for which President Vladimir Putin is being held responsible.

The Conversation

Blast hit a natural gas pipeline in northern Siberia -Tass agency

An explosion hit a natural gas pipeline near a village in northern Siberia late on Wednesday but there were no casualties, Tass news agency cited a local official as saying.

Reuters

Russia Stops Sharing Missile Test Info with US, Opens Drills

A senior Russian diplomat said Wednesday that Moscow will no longer inform the US about its missile tests, an announcement that came as the Russian military deployed mobile launchers in Siberia in a show of the country’s massive nuclear capability amid the fighting in Ukraine. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Territorial dispute between China and Russia risks clouding friendly future

Despite the public image of cordiality presented by China and Russia, some observers suggest the friendship is on fragile foundations. Xi Jinping is visiting Moscow this week in a show of solidarity with Vladimir Putin. However, a background dispute over territory in east Siberia could dangerously undo the comprehensive strategic…

Radio France Internationale

Kyiv condemns 'kidnappings' as Russians foster Ukrainian kids

KYIV, Ukraine: At their home in the middle of Siberia, Russian pastor Roman Vinogradov and his wife Yekaterina are the new foster parents of five children from Moscow-occupied eastern Ukraine.

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Alexey Navalny film on fighting the Kremlin wins Oscar

Navalny, 46, fell ill in Siberia in 2020 and was flown to Germany, which said it found evidence he had been poisoned.

Daily Mirror

'Zombie virus' frozen under ice for 48,000 years revived by scientists

Jean-Michel Claverie, a French scientist has raised concerns about a 'zombie virus' that spent over 48,000 years frozen in permafrost, Siberia. He has been studying the viruses to understand the potential risks they pose

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tech & Science Daily podcast: Frozen 48,500-year-old ‘zombie’ virus revived

Scientists have revived a ‘zombie’ virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost in Siberia.

The Conversation

Extreme wildfires are turning the world's largest forest ecosystem from carbon sink into net-emitter

The vast boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere stretch from Scandinavia through Siberia, Alaska and Canada. They cover a tenth of the world’s land but hold one-third of the land’s carbon, stored mainly in organic-rich soils and in trees. Now, a new study in the journal Science provides further evidence…

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5 dead in apartment building fire in Novosibirsk, Russia

Authorities say a gas explosion in an apartment building in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk has killed at least five people including a 2-year-old child

Reuters

At least 12 dead after gas explosion hits Russian housing block - Tass

At least 12 people were killed on Thursday in a gas explosion in a housing block in the city of Novosibirsk in Siberia, Tass news agency said, in Russia's second fatal gas explosion in three days.

Daily Mirror

Inside world's coldest city where locals jump into river as temperatures drop to -62C

A video shared on Twitter showed residents in Yakutsk, Russia, plunging themselves into the ice cold waters of the Lena River to mark the Orthodox Epiphany

Daily Mirror

Furious camel bites and tramples man to death after lashing out at kid's holiday camp

The man, who worked at a holiday camp in Siberia in Russia had apparently struck the two-humped camel in the face before it retaliated, biting and trampling the 51-year-old to death.

Zenger

This Is What Americans Were Doing 7,500 Years Ago

We describe a previously unknown hunter-gatherer population & what Americans were doing 7,500 years ago appeared first on Talker.

Daily Record

Scotland to be hit with snow tonight as temperatures set to plummet to bone-chilling -15C

The UK is likely to turn colder than Siberia as a 500-mile-wide weather front from Greenland brings a bone-chilling Blue Monday.

Daily Mirror

Snow expected TONIGHT as Britain turns colder than Siberia for bone-chilling Blue Monday

The incoming icy blast has threatened to dump up to six inches of snow in parts of the UK as Brits brace for the return of the Troll from Trondheim - and it's set to be colder than Siberia

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