Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
A court in Russia has ruled that Aleksandr Gabyshev, a shaman in the Siberian region of Yakutia who gained notoriety in 2019 after declaring that he wanted to drive President Vladimir Putin from power, must be forcibly placed in a psychiatric clinic.
Heavy storms and rains in Russia's Siberian region of Kemerovo have left two people dead and damaged dozens of houses and social infrastructure.
Lawyers of Aleksandr Gabyshev, a shaman in the Siberian region of Yakutia who gained notoriety in 2019 after declaring that he wanted to drive Russian President Vladimir Putin from power, have filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against his forced placement in a psychiatric clinic.
Russian special police have detained Aleksandr Gabyshev, a shaman in the Siberian region of Yakutia who gained notoriety in 2019 after declaring that he wanted to drive President Vladimir Putin from power.
A fight between local officials in the Russian region of Irkutsk over forest fires is heating up, with one of them landing in a hospital and another in a river, as residents say it may be a sign of a power struggle ahead of elections.
The acting chief physician of a hospital for war veterans in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia is in intensive care and in "grave condition" after falling from a window of her fifth-floor office.
Three residents of Russia's Far Eastern island of Sakhalin, an oil and gas hub, have been arrested on terrorism charges that their relatives say are a case of a misunderstanding.
A person who supplied a Siberian city with bath lotion that killed dozens of people who drank it in 2016 has been convicted and sent to prison.
A news presenter on Russian state TV made waves when a report of her laughing uncontrollably about new social benefits was leaked online.
A man was killed and a woman injured during a shooting in a courtroom in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk, officials in Russia's Kemerovo Region say.
A 73-year-old kindergarten teacher in Russia's Far East has died during the evacuation of a building following false bomb-threat phone calls.
A court in Russia's Siberian region of Yakutia has fined shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev and ordered him to remain in the regional capital, once again halting his march to Moscow "to drive [President Vladimir] Putin out of the Kremlin."
Police in Russia's Siberian region of Yakutia have detained shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev, who resumed his march to Moscow "to drive [President Vladimir] Putin out of the Kremlin."
Yakut shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev has resumed his march to Moscow from his native far-eastern region of Yakutia "to drive [President Vladimir] Putin out of the Kremlin."
Another Orthodox priest has been arrested in Russia and is under investigation on suspicion of molesting minors.
Paleontologists are struggling to salvage precious prehistoric bones discarded by mammoth-ivory hunters in Russia's remote Yakutia region. When hunters extract valuable tusks from the skeletons of the ancient buried animals, they also destroy evidence of past life on Earth. Scientists can't stop this illegal work, but they bargain and scavenge to preserve natural history.
The fire chief of a Siberian village has been arrested for intentionally setting several houses on fire to test his department's response to an emergency.
Two nongovernmental organizations, Officers of Russia and the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, have blamed the Internet for a shooting spree at a military unit in Siberia in which eight men were killed and two were wounded last month.
A newspaper in Siberia has published a video purportedly showing an inmate being tortured by a prison guard.
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