Supposed inter-ethnic conflicts in the US could force millions of white Americans to request that Russia resettle them across the vast and snowy expanses of Siberia, one of the country’s most notorious nationalists has claimed. Taking to his Telegram channel on Tuesday, the leader of the ultra-nationalist LDPR party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, …
Read More »Cargo plane, with eight on board, crashes in Siberia — reports
“At 2.50pm Moscow time, the An-12 aircraft, flying between Yakutsk and Irkutsk, disappeared from the radar,” a source told RIA Novosti. According to TASS, officials believe that the plane belongs to Belarusian airline ‘Grodno’ and was operating a cargo flight. “According to preliminary reports, the crash site has been found …
Read More »Mysterious giant craters in Siberia: Sinkholes or underground explosions? RT’s special report explores the phenomenon
Giant round craters seemingly appear out of nowhere in the remote areas of Western Siberia, mesmerizing and, sometimes, scaring nomadic reindeer herders and scientists alike. One such crater opened up just last year, while more than a dozen others took several decades to form, researchers say. Some remain vast cavities, …
Read More »Underwater telescope placed below Siberia’s Lake Baikal as Russian scientists aim to detect particles from billions of years ago
Launched on Saturday, Baikal-GVD will attempt to detect the subatomic matter arriving from outer space, with the aim of discovering where it originates from. The high-energy cosmic particles are incredibly difficult to find, and placing the device in a large body of pristine water, where there are no impurities, increases …
Read More »Small-scale protests in Russia’s Far East & larger gatherings in Siberia begin day of pro-Alexey Navalny demonstrations (VIDEOS)
Dozens of protesters defied not only the authorities but also local representatives of Navalny’s own team, who said they were endangering themselves by gathering on the ice. Off the coast, the demonstrators walked in circles, in a manner resembling traditional Russian folk dancing, and chanted slogans. © Sputnik / Vitaly Ankov …
Read More »Siberia braces for close to record-breaking cold over New Year, with temperatures predicted to hit freezing -50 degrees
Earlier this year, in the height of summer, the highest-ever temperature seen above the Artic Circle was recorded, with the small town of Verkhoyansk seeing the mercury reach as high as +38. “Extremely cold weather in Siberia has not happened for a long time,” explained Roman Vilfand, the scientific director …
Read More »Russia to open WORLD’S LARGEST gold mine in Siberia
According to the firm, the undeveloped Siberian deposit is the largest in the world. “As of May 31, 2020, ore reserves are initially estimated at 540 million tons with an average gold grade of 2.3 grams per ton. This is equivalent to 40 million ounces,” said Polyus chief executive Pavel …
Read More »Alexey Navalny ‘in coma’ after falling ill on flight from Siberia, spokeswoman suspects Moscow protest leader’s tea was ‘poisoned’
His spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh says the unconscious activist is currently on a ventilator in the city of Omsk, where his plane landed on Thursday morning. Anatoly Kalinichenko, deputy chief physician of the hospital where he was taken, cautioned that “there is no certainty that the cause of Navalny’s condition is poisoning.” According to …
Read More »The chamber declined to comment on the failure of the “Power of Siberia” Gazprom
The chamber declined to comment on “the Ribbon.ru” the information about the possible failure of the multibillion-dollar contract to supply gas to China on the part of the state company “Gazprom”. Department under the direction of Alexei Kudrin considered that possible failure of one of the major oil and gas …
Read More »“Power of Siberia-2” risks repeating the fate of the “Nord stream-2”
“Gazprom” has started to design and survey works on “the Power of Siberia-2” — pipeline to China through the territory of Mongolia. We will remind, on March 27, Vladimir Putin instructed the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller to perform this routing. Research includes development of feasibility studies, conducting design and …
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