by roberto | Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | Senza categoria
From: May 23, 2017 RBTH American actor Keanu Reeves is playing an American diamond merchant in a small Siberian town for an upcoming film. Siberia, directed by Matthew Ross, has begun filming in Canada. Keanu Reeves’ character is an American swindler, Lucas, who...
by roberto | Saturday, May 13, 2017 | Senza categoria
From: May 13, 2017 Ksenia Zubacheva, special to RBTH The Putorana Plateau. A traveler’s dream. The nature preserve par excellence. A land “where man has not set foot.” If you look out the window of your helicopter, you’ll see a rock massif the size...
by roberto | Monday, April 17, 2017 | Senza categoria
From: January 24, 2013 By The Siberian Times reporter The 2013 sees the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov, the Russian royal family thrown on the scrapheap of history in 1917 as the Bolsheviks loomed. The following year Nicholas II and his close family were...
by roberto | Saturday, April 1, 2017 | Senza categoria
From: April, 2017 Ross Anderseen The Atlantic Nikita Zimov’s nickname for the vehicle seemed odd at first. It didn’t look like a baby mammoth. It looked like a small tank, with armored wheels and a pit bull’s center of gravity. Only after he smashed us into the first...
by roberto | Friday, March 31, 2017 | Senza categoria
From: March 31, 2017 Yekaterina Filippovich, special to RBTH There’s an old Soviet joke that satirizes the USSR’s penchant for declaring itself a leading force in various fields. It goes like this: During an international competition, schoolchildren from several...
by roberto | Thursday, March 30, 2017 | Senza categoria
Early morning in Tofalaria. We have a salty breakfast as only here you can have. Proteins of fresh fish we catch and vegetables in a Siberian recipe that you will miss one day. Today we will walk up mountains searching the Kinzelyuk Waterfalls. Probably the second on...