Siberia covers an area of over 13 million sq km and accounts for 77 percent of the area of modern Russia. But there was a time when "Siberia" was the name of a separate country. How did it come ...

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How did Russia become the largest country in the world? In this first part of our detailed series, we trace the early history ...