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October 23, 2022, 4:08 pm
2 Russian pilots killed as warplane crashes into Siberia building during exercise
Su-30 fighter jet falls on two-story wooden building, sparking fire; no reports of casualties on the ground in 11th reported noncombat crash since start of Ukraine invasion
By
AP
September 26, 2022, 7:14 pm
Gunman kills Russian military recruiter as opposition to Ukraine mobilization grows
Shooter, identified as 25-year-old local resident Ruslan Zinin, says ‘no one will go to fight’ before opening fire in the Siberian city of Ust-Ilimsk
By
Adam Schreck
and
Jon Gambrell
December 1, 2021, 2:59 am
Hanukkah’s early start this year put a Siberian tradition on thin ice
Jews in city of Tomsk annually construct a giant ice menorah; this year, due to holiday’s date and climate change ‘it was really touch and go’
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
November 26, 2021, 1:10 pm
Survivor found in Siberia coal mine after accident, as dozens presumed dead
20 fatalities confirmed, with another 31 people still missing inside the Listvyazhnaya mine, officials say
By
Dasha Litvinova
November 26, 2021, 5:31 am
Death toll in Siberia mining accident reported to reach 52
Authorities believe ‘no one is left alive in the mine’ that filled with smoke in the early hours of Thursday
By
AFP
November 25, 2021, 12:51 pm
11 dead, dozens missing in Siberia coal mine accident
46 people remain inside the Listvyazhnaya mine, with ‘no communication,’ officials say
By
AFP
September 17, 2021, 3:15 pm
Siberian Jews inaugurate a huge new Jewish education center in Tomsk
About 200 Jewish children are enrolled in the institution, which features a robotics lab, modern furnishings, pottery workshops and table tennis stations
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
July 21, 2021, 9:52 am
Wildfires spreading in Russia’s Siberia could endanger a power plant
Blaze that has already engulfed 102,000 acres is some 24 kilometers from hydroelectric facility; 216 fires still active in Sakha-Yakutia republic
By
AP
February 17, 2021, 7:31 pm
Million-year-old mammoth teeth yield world’s oldest DNA sequence
Analysis of genomes from extinct species reveals previously unrecognized genetic lineage and shines light on the Ice Age and the life of its giant mammals
By
Kelly MacNamara
January 17, 2021, 9:38 pm
Kremlin critic Navalny lands in Moscow, is immediately detained
Putin’s most prominent foe spent 5 months in Germany recovering from a nerve agent attack he blames on the Kremlin
By
MSTYSLAV CHERNOV
and
Jim Heintz
September 23, 2020, 1:01 pm
Russian special forces arrest Siberian ‘Jesus Reincarnate’ cult leader
Sergei Torop, founder of Church of the Last Testament, accused of organizing an illegal religious organization of thousands and causing ‘two or more people severe harm’
By
AFP
November 17, 2018, 3:51 am
Jews of former Cossack fort Irkutsk mark 200 years of prosperity and persecution
Founded by a band of liberated Jewish Cantonist soldiers in 1818, this small Siberian community has donated to communal causes worldwide — and been threatened with expulsion
By
Rossella Tercatin
March 26, 2018, 5:29 pm
Russian shopping mall fire kills 64 including children
Investigators said emergency exits were blocked, security guard turned off PA system, fire alarms remained silent
By
NATALIYA VASILYEVA
March 16, 2018, 2:00 pm
In frozen Siberia, a small Jewish community is unthawed
On the day an ancient synagogue is returned to the Jews of Tomsk by the Russian government, the caretaker’s grandson reveals the Torah scroll his family kept secret for 90 years
By
Yaakov Schwartz
February 1, 2018, 2:46 pm
Siberian synagogue built by former child soldiers returned to Jewish community
Chief rabbi of Russia to hold ceremony in Tomsk completing transfer of one of the only wooden synagogues worldwide
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
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