YELANTSY, Russia -- Once considered enemies of the Soviet state, the shamans of southern Siberia are now tourist attractions. They travel to exhibitions across Russia, sometimes to explain their ...

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YAKUTSK, Russia -- A court in Russia has ruled that Aleksandr Gabyshev, a shaman in the Siberian region of Yakutia who gained notoriety in 2019 after declaring that he wanted to drive President ...

An almost perfectly preserved shaman burial site dating back as far as the 18th century has been discovered in remote Siberia. In only the second-ever archaeological study in the Yakutia area of ...

DANBURY -- In his 64 years Jon Turk has explored the Arctic by boat and dogsled; kayaked around Patagonia and Cape Horn; bicycled through Central Asia; and in an epic two-year journey, sailed and ...

(RNS) — The sentence comes in response to Aleksandr Gabyshev’s 2019 attempt to march from Siberia to Moscow, where, he claimed, he would use his self-proclaimed shamanic powers to ‘purge’ Vladimir ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday banned a shaman from leaving his Siberian hometown after he was detained during a second attempt to hike to Moscow on what he has called a mission to banish ...

MOSCOW, Sept 20 (Reuters) - A Siberian shaman detained by police while trekking to Moscow on what he said was a mission to drive President Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin has been taken into a ...

A shaman on a 5,000-mile journey to “exorcise” President Vladimir Putin has been arrested by Russian armed police, a human rights organization has said. Amnesty International said Thursday that ...

MOSCOW — Increasingly jittery over all forms of public protest, Russian security forces on Thursday cut short a trek of thousands of miles to Moscow by a Siberian shaman who has been walking for six ...

YAKUTSK, Russia -- The Supreme Court of Russia's Yakutia region has ruled that the forced confinement to a psychiatric clinic of a shaman who tried several times to march to Moscow on foot "to drive ...

Lenky Roy is a Jamaican reggae singer whose record company dreamed up a unique way to promote his new CD, Siberia-- an actual trip to Siberia. He's there now and plans to take part in a grueling, ...