Siberia

Life in the coldest inhabited settlement on Earth
Oymyakon villagers hold up damp towels that had frozen after being swung around. (Daisuke Nishimura)
February 23, 2013
OYMYAKON, Russia--Whether you're digging a grave or using the toilet, nothing is easy in the village of Oymyakon, the coldest inhabited settlement on Earth.
In the land of the Cossaks, a dream of independence
Konstantin Eryomenko, one of the key figures behind the movement calling for people to declare their nationality as “Siberian” in the national census. Photo taken in Novosibirsk, the largest city in Siberia. (Photo: Yoshinori Toyomane)
September 09, 2012
There is no such category, but that didn't faze the 6,000 or so Russians who listed "Siberian" as their nationality in the 2010 census.
Japan manufacturers eye Trans-Siberian Railway
A Russian cargo train carries containers along the Trans-Siberian Railway near Vladivostok on June 9. (Hitoki Nakagawa)
July 19, 2012
Hoping to cut costs, major Japanese electronics makers are shipping parts on Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway, which roughly halves the transit time from Japan and China to...
BIZ BRIEF: NEC subsidiary helping provide femtocell ...
June 25, 2012
NEC Corp. announced on June 25 that Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS), the leading telecommunications provider in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, together with...
Japan, Russia agree on joint oil field study in...
Work is under way to reinforce facilities at Kozmino port outside Nakhodka, Russia, to allow for a doubling of petroleum shipments after a pipeline goes into operation. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
June 23, 2012
ST. PETERSBURG--Japanese and Russian government-affiliated corporations have agreed to carry out a joint geological survey of oil reserves in eastern Siberia.
Flowers woken from 30,000 years of slumber in...
These pink flowers were grown from plant tissue excavated from Siberian permafrost. (Provided by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
February 23, 2012
When these pink flowers last bloomed during the Ice Age, they might have been eaten by wooly mammoths in the frozen tundra or picked by the last of the Neanderthals. Instead, a ...
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