Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A Russian schoolteacher who says she was hounded from her job and likened to a prostitute after posting a photograph of herself in a thigh-high dress is getting some support from local officials.
An activist in Russia's Far East has been questioned by police who accuse her of distributing pornography over a series of hand-drawn posters promoting positive body images of women. It wasn't her first run-in with the law this month.
Police in Russia's Sakha-Yakutia region have detained a group of people accused of attacking migrants from Central Asia following the arrest of a Kyrgyz man suspected of raping a local woman.
Residents of a Siberian town were outraged when a prominent defense lawyer was found dead, one day after recording a video purportedly showing police investigators beating a detained suspect. The video has not been found.
President Vladimir Putin lauded the opportunities his government had created for young people in his state-of-the-nation address on February 20. The same day, in Novosibirsk, a young heart surgeon who won one of those honors in 2018 was arrested, accused by the FSB of embezzling $20 million.
Lyu Pen-Sei grew up in a gulag and is now back living among his childhood barracks.
Some residents of condemned Soviet-era housing blocks in the Kuntsevo district of Moscow -- known as "Khrushchyovka" after Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev -- have been waiting 10 years to relocate. But many are now reluctant to move in to new apartments because of what they say are major flaws.
Six miners have been killed in a road accident in Russia's Siberian region of Kemerovo, local officials say.
A 65-year old pensioner has become pole-dance star in Siberia. Svetlana Miroshkina works as a supermarket cleaner by day and pole dances by night.
Hundreds have demonstrated on Sakhalin in Russia’s Far East to protest against any potential transfer to Japan of any of the islands from the disputed Kurile Islands.
The Muslim community in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk on January 5 bid farewell to four members of a single family who died under the rubble of a high-rise apartment building that collapsed on December 31. The remains are to be buried in their home Tajikistan. (RFE/RL)
The population of Dikson, Russia's most northerly port, has dwindled from 5,000 in the Soviet era to some 300 today. The development of shipping routes through the Russian Arctic offers some promise of renewal, but most residents see little future in this Siberian outpost.
A Russian activist who helped organize protests against plans to raise the retirement age has been severely beaten by unknown attackers.
Four people, including a local entrepreneur, were killed after a helicopter crashed near the city of Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Siberian region of Buryatia, the state-run TASS news agency reports.
A court in Russia has sentenced blog editor Aleksandr Valov to six years in prison after finding him guilty of extortion, a charge the journalist denies.
A member of an organized crime group that terrorized residents of the Siberian city of Tyumen for years has been sentenced to 24 years in prison.
Two Russian traffic police officers in the Siberian region of Buryatia have been charged with violent behavior and abuse of power after CCTV videos showing them beating a car wash director were posted online.
A Russian opposition politician from Siberia says he has fled to Lithuania, where he obtained political asylum.
The deputy speaker of the Krasnoyarsk regional parliament, Aleksei Kleshko, has been found dead.
Authorities at a prison in Siberia say they have established control after what they said was violent unrest among inmates over the weekend.
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