Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
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.
As the Kremlin's war on Ukraine hit its 500th day, the fallout from the conflict has seeped deeper into Russian society, slowly changing the fabric of life across the sprawling nation. That goes double in small, isolated Siberian towns like Yashkino.
An L-410 twin-engine short-range transport plane made in the Czech Republic had to make an emergency landing on July 3 in Russia’s Far Eastern region of Khabarovsk Krai due to an engine malfunction.
An unidentified gunman has fired at least one bullet at a car belonging to human rights activist and blogger Svyatoslav Khromenkov in the Siberian city of Irkutsk.
Valery Golubkin, a 71-year-old professor and researcher with more than 130 published works and numerous Russian state awards, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for treason, a charge he firmly denies. His family and lawyers say it amounts to a death sentence for the ailing man.
What will happen to the Wagner Group, following last weekend's mutiny? Relatives of men who joined the notorious private mercenary are worried, confused -- and angry.
A court in Siberia has sentenced the former emergency situations minister of the Kemerovo region, Aleksandr Mamontov, to 10 1/2 years in prison over a 2018 fire in the regional capital that killed 60 people, including 37 children.
A court in Russia's Far East has decided 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.
The deputy governor of the Kalman district in the Siberian region of Altai Krai, Vitaly Manishin, has confessed to killing five women who were applicants to a local university in 2000, media reports cited sources as saying on June 23.
The prosecution has asked a court in Barnaul, the capital of the Siberian region of Altai Krai, to convict and sentence Vadim Ostanin, the former leader of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in the region, to 11 years in prison.
A popular television celebrity in Russia's Siberian region of Sakha-Yakutia refused to anchor a broadcast on the Yakutian traditional Ysyakh Tuimaady holiday after the mayor of the regional capital announced that celebrations would be devoted to supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on June 21 that it had arrested a man in the Far Eastern region of Khabarovsk on a charge of high treason stemming from his alleged attempt to send cryptocurrency to Ukraine to raise money for its troops.
A former RFE/RL correspondent in Siberia who was sentenced in March to eight months of correctional work over his online posts about Russian forces attacking civilian infrastructure in Ukraine was offered a contract to join Russia's armed forces involved in the invasion of Ukraine.
A construction crane collapsed in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on June 15, killing the machine's operator.
Up to 90 tons of gasoline have leaked into Siberia’s Lena River, one of the area's major waterways, after two tankers collided, Irkutsk regional Governor Igor Kobzev said late on June 12.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on June 13 that a fire in a private house killed three people in the village of Poros in the Novosibirsk region of Siberia overnight.
Aleksandr Kolodich, a lawmaker in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District in Siberia, has been stabbed to death in his home in Moscow.
Siberian journalist Maria Ponomarenko leads a group of five people -- all of whom are currently in jail for voicing their opposition to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine -- to be awarded this year's Boris Nemtsov Award for their "brave defense of democratic rights and freedoms."
A Russian neurosurgeon left her home and successful career after her country invaded Ukraine last year. But after living for nearly a year in Kazakhstan, Renata Zhiltsova wants to move to another country.
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