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Russia proposes building data centers in coal pits after drone strikes

Russia proposed building data centers inside 300-meter-deep coal pits to shield servers from Ukrainian drone strikes, Kemerovo Oblast Governor Ilya Seredyuk said on Oct. 16.

16 October, 01:16 PM

Russia tells WHO no plague cases in Irkutsk as lab worker’s death remains unexplained

Moscow informed the World Health Organization (WHO) that no cases of plague had been detected in Irkutsk, Siberia, the WHO said on Oct. 6.

6 October, 10:51 PM

Zelenskyy updates target list for deep strikes on Russia

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting on long-range strikes on Russian territory, attended by acting Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara and new Commander in Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi, Zelenskyy reported on X on July 26.

27 July, 11:05 AM

Russia reroutes fuel from Siberia to Moscow

Russia is rerouting fuel from Siberia to Moscow to avoid shortages in the capital, Reuters reported on July 21, citing industry sources.

21 July, 08:50 PM

Ukraine’s longest-range strike exposes gaps in Russian air defense

Ukrainian drones flew for more than 12 hours before striking Russia’s Omsk oil refinery in Siberia, The Telegraph reported on July 13.

14 July, 03:50 PM

Siberian oblasts introduce gasoline sale limits to combat growing fuel crisis

Omsk Oblast banned fuel sale in jerry cans and set a 40-liter limit per vehicle to prevent panic at gas stations as at least three Siberian oblasts in Russia introduced restrictions on gasoline sales, governor Vitaly Khotsenko wrote on June 22.

23 June, 12:05 PM

Russia begins production at massive Siberian oil fields once deemed unprofitable

Gazprom group began "full-scale oil production" at the Chonsky group of fields in Eastern Siberia in late May, the news agency Interfax-Russia wrote.

3 June, 10:36 AM

Gas exports to China rise 11% as Russia supplies record 4.25 bcm in July 2025

Russia’s total gas supplies to China, via pipeline and LNG, rose 11% in July 2025 from a year earlier to a record 4.25 billion cubic meters, Interfax reported on Sept. 27.

27 September 2025, 04:57 PM

Hackers paralyze Russia’s Orion Telecom, disrupt uranium city’s network

Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), with hacker group BO Team, launched a cyberattack on June 12, paralyzing Siberian internet provider Orion Telecom, leaving a uranium-mining city without connectivity, NV’s intelligence sources reported.

12 June 2025, 05:36 PM

Satellite shows at least seven damaged bombers in Siberia

At least seven Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers were damaged at the Belaya air base in Irkutsk Oblast of Siberia, according to the Planet Labs satellite images published by Radio Liberty on June 4.

5 June 2025, 04:35 AM

Massive fire engulfs Russian military facility in Siberia - video

A military facility in the Russian Siberian city of Novosibirsk burned down on Dec. 12, Andriy Kovalenko, the head of the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) at the National Security and Defense Council, wrote on Telegram the following day, posting a video of a massive fire.

14 December 2024, 05:29 PM

Siberian outage fix solution: DIY heating with a loan - video

Authorities in Russia’s Irkutsk Oblast seem to have come up with a brilliant solution for residents facing power outages: take out loans to buy furnaces and figure out the rest yourself!

17 October 2024, 03:03 PM

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