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I escaped Vladimir Putin in the belly of a dead cow

An escapee used a dead cow carcass and carefully chosen September twilight conditions to avoid Russian border guards.

fromwww.theguardian.com

Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot

An isolated Old Believer family, the Lykovs, lived decades in remote western Sayan Mountains without contact, sustaining a primitive homestead and rejecting some outside offerings.

Books

fromwww.theguardian.com

5 months ago

Ice by Jacek Dukaj review a dazzling journey to an alternate Siberia

A 1924 alternate-history thriller follows Benedykt Gierosawski's Siberian mission to find his exiled father amid a spreading sentient cold called the gleiss.

fromTime Out New York

8 months ago

An iconic Hell's Kitchen watering hole just reopened inside the Columbus Circle subway station

Now, against all odds, Siberia is back. And fittingly, it has tunneled its way into yet another underground space: the Turnstyle Underground Market at Columbus Circle, hidden just steps from the 57th Street-Eighth Avenue subway entrance. It opened quietly last weekend, still labeled as "Gotham Taco" (the space's former tenant), but regulars knew where to look. A red glow, a jukebox and the familiar grin of proprietor Tracy Westmoreland, Siberia's self-proclaimed "minister of propaganda," confirmed the resurrection.

New York City

Science

fromHarvard Gazette

10 months ago

Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language origins - Harvard Gazette

Uralic languages originated over 4,500 years ago in northeastern Siberia, not the Ural Mountains as previously thought.