Siberia.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Hundreds have demonstrated on Sakhalin in Russia’s Far East to protest against any potential transfer to Japan of any of the islands from the disputed Kurile Islands.
The Muslim community in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk on January 5 bid farewell to four members of a single family who died under the rubble of a high-rise apartment building that collapsed on December 31. The remains are to be buried in their home Tajikistan. (RFE/RL)
The population of Dikson, Russia's most northerly port, has dwindled from 5,000 in the Soviet era to some 300 today. The development of shipping routes through the Russian Arctic offers some promise of renewal, but most residents see little future in this Siberian outpost.
A Russian activist who helped organize protests against plans to raise the retirement age has been severely beaten by unknown attackers.
Four people, including a local entrepreneur, were killed after a helicopter crashed near the city of Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Siberian region of Buryatia, the state-run TASS news agency reports.
A court in Russia has sentenced blog editor Aleksandr Valov to six years in prison after finding him guilty of extortion, a charge the journalist denies.
A member of an organized crime group that terrorized residents of the Siberian city of Tyumen for years has been sentenced to 24 years in prison.
Two Russian traffic police officers in the Siberian region of Buryatia have been charged with violent behavior and abuse of power after CCTV videos showing them beating a car wash director were posted online.
A Russian opposition politician from Siberia says he has fled to Lithuania, where he obtained political asylum.
The deputy speaker of the Krasnoyarsk regional parliament, Aleksei Kleshko, has been found dead.
Authorities at a prison in Siberia say they have established control after what they said was violent unrest among inmates over the weekend.
A Russian court has sentenced a member of an outlawed Russian nationalist opposition movement to 3 1/2 years in prison for allegedly plotting mass disturbances, his wife says.
Three members of the local branch of a Jehovah's Witnesses church have been detained in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula on extremism charges.
A fourth resident of Russia's Altai region in Siberia has been charged with inciting hatred via posts on the Internet.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a measure that will increase the country's value-added tax (VAT) from 18 to 20 percent as of January 1, 2019.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has reportedly lodged an extremism charge against an activist who promotes indigenous cultures and languages following a post on the Internet.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Russia to protest against the government's plan to raise the retirement age.
About 1,000 people have rallied in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk against a government plan to raise pension ages.
The head of the Russian opposition party Yabloko's branch in Moscow, Sergei Mitrokhin, has been detained while protesting the government's plan to increase the pension age.
A Russian artist who has faced pressure over works mocking nationalist lawmaker Natalya Poklonskaya says he left Russia earlier this year and plans to seek political asylum in France.
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