Siberia
Employee of Russian plague institute dies of suspected pneumonic infection, Trump offers help
Early Russian reports wrote that Shipilova had contracted the pneumonia after breaking a vial of plague bacteria.
Russian Tu-95 bomber crashes near China, killing at least six on board, state media reports
Russian strategic bomber plane crashes in Siberia, Moscow's defense ministry says
Neanderthal tooth from Siberian cave shows signs of earliest-known invasive dental surgery - study
Father and son work to slow Siberian Ice Age thaw
Scientists say that greenhouse gas emissions from its thaw could eventually match or even exceed the European Union's industrial emissions due to the sheer volume of decaying organic matter.
Russian An-12 cargo plane engulfed in flames after crash landing in Siberia
A source close to the regional administration said at least two people had died.
Bible scrolls from around the world - in pictures
A photo essay captures the stories of six Torah scrolls from around the world - Yemen, Siberia, France, Germany - which all ended up in Israel.
Siberian Jews open region’s largest Jewish education center in Tomsk
Tomsk is symbolic for many Russian Jews for its Cantonist community, which has become an icon of the determination of many Jews in Russia to adhere to their faith and culture.
A synagogue in Siberia has a 10-foot menorah made of ice
The menorah was made by Seva Mayorov, a local non-Jewish artist whose work also features regularly at the annual Tomsk Ice Park exhibition.
Russian opposition leader Navalny in hospital with suspected poisoning
Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, had started feeling ill when returning to Moscow from Tomsk in Siberia by plane on Wednesday morning.
Woolly mammoth skeleton found in lake in Russia's Arctic
Part of its skull, several ribs and foreleg bones, some with soft tissue still attached to them, were retrieved from Russia's remote Yamal peninsula above the Arctic circle on July 23
Book review: Dressed for a Dance in the Snow
A complex story of suffering and hope from women who survived Siberian imprisonment
Majestic ice menorah ready for Hanukkah in freezing Siberia
The menorah is expected to stand outside the synagogue in Tomsk until it warms up around Pesach.
