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Type of site | Online newspaper |
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Available in | English |
Created by | Svetlana Skarbo |
Editor | Svetlana Skarbo |
URL |
siberiantimes |
Launched | 2012 |
The Siberian Times is an English-language news organization which was founded in 2012.
The Siberian Times refers to their organization as a "major new source of news, features and opinions from Russia's largest region." They were founded on July 12, 2012 and they state that their content is produced journalists (both Russian and Western) along with researchers. [1]
Stories from the news site are increasingly garnering the attention of the Western media. One such is an article about frozen Siberian worms becoming reanimated after thawing out of the permafrost. [2] The story was also reported by the Smithsonian website, although a separate claim was made by the academic journal Doklady Biological Sciences. [3]
Other Siberian Times stories have been picked up by: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, [4] The Daily Telegraph, [5] The Independent [6] and Business Insider. [7]