Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Veteran Russian politician Aman Tuleyev has been elected as speaker of the Kemerovo regional legislature in Siberia, eight days after he resigned as governor following a shopping-mall fire that killed 64 people.
Several thousand people rallied in a town outside Moscow, demanding the closure of a landfill site that has been emitting toxic fumes and calling for the resignation of the regional governor.
More than 1,000 people have been evacuated in the Siberian region of Altai Krai after melting snow caused severe flooding.
A former Russian police officer has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering 19 women in Siberia.
The home of a Russian activist has been burned down in what he suspects was an arson attack in retaliation for his opposition to deforestation in the Altai Republic in southern Siberia.
The drowning deaths of two brothers who fell into a trench dug for pipe repairs was taken as a call for action by angry residents of the small town of Kolyvan.
