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Vladimir Putin critic shares grim punishments from inside maximum-security prison

Alexei Navalny - Vladimir Putin's strongest political opponent - was jailed by the Kremlin at the start of 2021 upon returning to Russia after being poisoned with the novichok nerve agent while visiting Siberia in 2020

Daily Mirror

Life will find a way: could scientists make Jurassic Park a reality?

Just a few years from now, herds of woolly ‘mammoths’ could be roaming the Siberian tundra. Are dodos and dinosaurs next for de-extinction?

The Guardian - UK

Blood popsicles, mist-making, ice baths: How zookeepers coax animals through heat waves

DENVER — The Siberian tigers Yuri and Nikita at the Denver Zoo, who are supposed to mate, suffer most during Denver’s intensifying 95-degree heat waves, and caretakers supply cooling ice “bloodsicles” from the zoo’s heavily frequented freezers.

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Russia says West, unlike China, 'shoot themselves in the head' over Ukraine

Russia said on Wednesday that the West had "shot itself in the head" by trying to limit energy imports from the oil and gas fields of Siberia due to the Ukraine conflict, in sharp contrast to China which has increased deliveries of energy.

Reuters

Alexander Govor: The Siberian billionaire behind the ‘Russian McDonald’s’

First 15 branches of Vkusno i Tochka open in Moscow, without McNuggets or McFlurrys, after American fast-food giant boycotts country over war in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Alexander Govor: The Siberian billionaire behind the ‘Russian McDonald’s’

First 15 branches of Vkusno i Tochka open in Moscow, without McNuggets or McFlurrys, after American fast-food giant boycotts country over war in Ukraine

The Independent UK

‘We can’t live with people who support Putin’s war’: the TV chief who fled Russia

When journalists faced jail for reporting on Ukraine, Viktor Muchnik closed down his Siberian TV station and left for Armenia

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‘Mouth to hell’ is increasing in size and nothing can be done to slow its growth

A ‘mouth to hell’ has opened in Siberia in Russia according to local villagers who fear that the ever-growing site is connected to the supernatural and must be watched closely

Daily Record

Gaping 'mouth to hell' appears in Russia's Siberia which cannot be stopped

Local villagers fear the ever-growing site is connected to the supernatural and must be watched closely

Irish Mirror

'Mouth to hell' appears in Siberia - and nothing can be done to slow its growth

A ‘mouth to hell’ has opened in Siberia in Russia according to local villagers who fear that the ever-growing site is connected to the supernatural and must be watched closely

Daily Mirror

McDonald's Exits Russia - Read The Latest Update

McDonald's Corp (NYSE:MCD) has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with its existing licensee Alexander Govor to sell its Russian business. The financial terms were not disclosed. Under this agreement, Govor will acquire McDonald's restaurant portfolio and operate the restaurants under a new brand. Govor has served as a McDonald's licensee since…

Benzinga

A fossil tooth places enigmatic ancient humans in Southeast Asia

What do a finger bone and some teeth found in the frigid Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai mountains have in common with fossils from the balmy hills of tropical northern Laos?

The Conversation

Why the world has a lot to learn about conservation – and trust – from Indigenous societies

Twenty-five years ago, when I was a young anthropologist working in northern Siberia, the Indigenous hunters, fishers and trappers I lived with would often stop and solemnly offer something to the tundra. It was usually small, such as coins, buttons or unlit matches. But it was considered essential. Before departing…

The Conversation

Putin demands action on Siberia forest fires threatening lives and economy

Russian President Vladimir Putin told regional officials on Tuesday to deal with forest fires in Siberia and said there could be no repeat of last year's fire season, the worst on record.

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How a volcanic bombardment in ancient Australia led to the world's greatest climate catastrophe

Some 252 million years ago the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming.

Reuters

Fires kill at least 8 people in Siberia as high winds hamper rescue

At least eight people died in Siberia on Saturday as fires ripped through hundreds of buildings in several villages, with high winds hampering efforts to extinguish the blazes.

France 24

Several dead after deadly blazes in Russia’s Siberia

At least eight people died in Siberia on Saturday as fires ripped through hundreds of buildings in several villages, with high winds hampering efforts to extinguish the blazes.

The Independent UK

Siberian wildfires burning unchecked because Russian military units which usually fight them are at war

Vast blazes are a major contributor to the climate crisis - but no-one’s putting them out

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The Independent UK

Putin ‘resettling Ukrainians 5,500 miles away in Siberia and far east Russia’, report claims

People in Mariupol are being asked to sign papers claiming Ukrainian troops shelled their city

Reuters

Ukraine conflict hurts Russian science, as West pulls funding

Dozens of international scientists have arrived each year since 2000 at Russia's remote Northeast Science Station on the Kolyma River in Siberia to study climate change in the Arctic environment.

Daily Mirror

One Siberian postcode has dozens of war dead - but mysteriously none in Moscow

Different parts of Russia have widely different numbers of war dead, according to the official record, raising questions about fatality estimates issued by the Kremlin during the invasion

Tribune News Service

Martin Schram: Quit winging it and fly home, Putin

In 2012, Vladimir Putin took his media corps out to an Arctic peninsula in Siberia to showcase his leadership prowess for all the world to see.

Reuters

Russia's Jehovah's Witnesses caught up in "extremist" law

In the early morning of Feb. 15, 2019, armed police and intelligence agents burst into Timofey Zhukov's home in Surgut, an oil town in western Siberia. They knocked him to the floor, then began searching his belongings, he said.

Irish Mirror

Vladimir Putin moves family to 'hidden underground city in Siberia' as world on 'high alert' for nuclear warfare

In a recent post, the Telegram channel General SVR said senior political figures at the Kremlin "were warned on behalf of the president that, perhaps in the near future, they will participate in practising evacuation in case of a nuclear war

The Conversation

A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and the internet – an electrical engineer explains how

On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able to operate equipment with batteries disconnected. During the evenings, the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the northern lights, could be…

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