Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Paleontologists are struggling to salvage precious prehistoric bones discarded by mammoth-ivory hunters in Russia's remote Yakutia region. When hunters extract valuable tusks from the skeletons of the ancient buried animals, they also destroy evidence of past life on Earth. Scientists can't stop this illegal work, but they bargain and scavenge to preserve natural history.
The fire chief of a Siberian village has been arrested for intentionally setting several houses on fire to test his department's response to an emergency.
Two nongovernmental organizations, Officers of Russia and the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, have blamed the Internet for a shooting spree at a military unit in Siberia in which eight men were killed and two were wounded last month.
A newspaper in Siberia has published a video purportedly showing an inmate being tortured by a prison guard.
Russian authorities in the Siberian city of Tomsk have convicted and handed a prison sentence to a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, a religious group that Moscow has outlawed and labeled as "extremist."
Two people, including the former mayor of the Siberian town of Kiselyovsk, were killed in an apparent shootout on October 31.
A court in Russia's far eastern city of Yakutsk has refused to close an extremism case against a Yakut shaman, Aleksandr Gabyshev, who was detained last month while walking from Siberia toward Moscow with the declared aim of "driving [President Vladimir] Putin out of the Kremlin."
A psychiatric examination has determined that a Yakut shaman who was detained last month while walking from Siberia toward Moscow with the declared aim of "driving [President Vladimir] Putin out of the Kremlin" is mentally unfit to face trial.
The supporters of a Yakut shaman who was detained while walking from Siberia toward Moscow for months with the declared aim "to drive [President Vladimir] Putin out of the Kremlin" say they have ended their march after "threats" by the Federal Security Service (FSB).
Supporters of a Yakut shaman who was detained while walking across Russia for months "to drive [President Vladimir] Putin out of the Kremlin" continue the walk to Moscow.
A Yakut shaman, who has been walking for months to Moscow "to drive [Russian President Vladimir] Putin out of the Kremlin" has been taken away by dozens of armed and masked people in uniforms.
Hundreds of protesters jammed a central square in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, amid continuing outrage over recent elections for the city’s mayor and related police violence.
Police in Russia's Siberian region of Buryatia have detained 17 activists who have been challenging mayoral election results for days.
Three Kyrgyz nationals have received prison terms for their roles in a high-profile rape case that sparked mass protests and attacks against Central Asian labor migrants in Russia's Far Eastern region of Sakha-Yakutia in March.
Police have violently dispersed a protest and detained two men in the capital of Russia's Siberian region of Buryatia.
A wall in an old building under repair collapsed on August 28 in the Russian city of Novosibirsk, killing at least three people.
The house of an opposition lawyer in the Siberian town of Kaltan has been targeted by arsonists in an attack that he said was politically motivated.
A court in the Siberian town of Kiselyovsk has fined an American woman after she interviewed local residents who had asked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to provide them with asylum.
A leader of mass rallies in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg says he was attacked while his home was being searched by police and Federal Security Service (FSB) officers.
An unidentified man has severely beaten an opposition lawyer in the Siberian town of Kaltan -- an attack the lawyer said was politically motivated.
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