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 ...

GORNO-ALTAYSK, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's first election for a supreme shaman has provoked uproar in the community of magical healers who are revered by Siberian tribes for their ability to mediate ...

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 ...

Vladimir Putin allegedly met shamans during his recent trips to Siberia and Mongolia to seek their blessing for the use of nuclear weapons, according to Russian opposition figures. The Russian ...

Long suppressed by missionaries and then by Soviet antireligious campaigns Siberian shamanism has experienced an unprecedented revival following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the number of ...

"A richly illustrated book showcasing the costumes and ritual equipment obtained from Shamans in Mongolia and Siberia in the 1930s by two legendary Danish travellers, Henning Haslund-Christensen and ...

A Russian court on Tuesday committed to a mental asylum a Siberian shaman critical of Vladimir Putin, a move rights groups condemned as a repressive move to silence a dissenter. Locals walk through a ...

(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 ...

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USSURIISK, Russia -- A court in Siberia has prolonged the forced treatment in a psychiatric clinic for a Yakut shaman who became known across Russia for his attempts to march to Moscow to drive ...

This paper documents a strand of religious practices concerned with curse afflictions in Tyva Republic, south Siberia. Drawing on consultations dealing with misfortunes the paper probes a field of ...

STORY: The descendant of the last shaman from the disappearing small Yukaghir people conducted a ceremony of good wishes at the polling station. He lit a fire and fed the spirits of the ancestors, ...