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Siberia

A young man wearing a jacket, a hat and gloves looks at his cellphone

Siberian student scales birch tree for internet access as classes move online

Arts, Culture & Media

Alexei Dudoladov has been forced to go to great lengths — or rather, great heights — to take courses on the internet.

Smoke rises from wildfires near Berezovka River in Russia

A heat wave in Siberia signals dangerous Arctic warming

Yakutian horses trampling snow

A bold plan to slow the melt of Arctic permafrost could help reverse global warming

Science
Chris Tara-Browne was a coffee magnate in Siberia. Now, he's starting over again in California. His new venture, CaféUnity, is going in in what was a hot dog stand in Rohnert Park.

Siberia’s coffee king is setting up shop back home in California

Business
Natalia Pinus decided to run for the Novosibirsk City Council in Siberia. And she decided to run as an independent.

This woman demonstrated that even in Russia all politics is local

Global Politics
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