Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Nastya Subbotina, a young woman from Moscow, spent a year teaching in Siberia, where she photographed her students and the austere landscapes of Evsino, a place that resonated deeply with her.
A Russian court in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk sentenced five soldiers to prison time for leaving their military units after being mobilized.
Known for coal mines and factories, Russia’s Kuzbass region has struggled for years with poverty, declining opportunities, and environmental destruction wrought by industrial pollution. Now, they’re also coping with the growing toll of dead and wounded from the Ukraine war.
Anton Kartavin, an independent lawmaker in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, said on August 22 that he discovered cables from an apparent hidden camera in his office, stressing that he will request police investigate the situation.
Russian prosecutors asked a court in the Siberian city of Abakan on August 22 to sentence the award-winning editor in chief of the Novy fokus (New Focus) online newspaper, Mikhail Afanasyev, to six years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces.
Five former officials at a Siberian penitentiary have been handed prison terms in a high-profile case involving the torture and rape of an inmate from the Republic of Tyva.
A top former Kremlin bodyguard who was serving a 10-year sentence on bribery charges has died in prison after an unspecified illness, a prison monitoring official said.
The governor of Russia's Far Eastern region of Primorye, Oleg Kozhemyako has announced a state of emergency in the region hit by floods caused by Typhoon Khanun.
Typhoon Khanun has caused floods in seven districts and left at least three people dead in Russia's Far Eastern region of Primorye.
Residents of the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok complained on August 9 that a huge explosion had woken them up at around 3:30 a.m. local time.
In a rare move, a Russian court has acquitted two Jehovah's Witnesses of extremism charges.
A court in Russia's Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, has sentenced a 19-year-old man from Siberia to six years in prison on treason charges.
A military court in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula said on July 31 it had sentenced a soldier to 30 months in a colony settlement for refusal to go to war in Ukraine.
A Russian court sentenced a taxi driver to 18 years in prison on July 28 for setting the entrance of the National Guard's headquarters in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur on fire in June last year.
A court in Russia's Far East has canceled a lower court decision to transfer to a less restrictive psychiatric clinic a Yakut shaman who became known across the country for his attempts to march to Moscow to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin.
An Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the Siberian region of Altai Krai on July 27, killing at least six people and injuring seven others.
Several banks in Central Asia and the Caucasus have stopped working with the Russian money-transfer company Unistream after the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the Moscow-based firm on July 20.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law raising the maximum age of people in the military reserves by five years.
The southeastern Siberian settlement of Domna has long been a military town, with most locals seeing only drugs or military service as an escape from the region's grinding poverty.
The remote Russian city of Norilsk, above the Arctic Circle, is known for its history of forced labor camps, mining, and railways. Photojournalist Aleksandr Kharitonov, who grew up there, shares images and stories with RFE/RL that capture the region's unheralded beauty, as well as its dark past.
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