Ice Maiden triggers mother of all disputes in Sibe

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High in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia, where Shamans still practise their ancient rites and most people are descended from Asiatic nomads, there is a whiff of revolt in the air. Local officials, urged on by the increasingly militant electorate, are collecting signatures, writing petitions and demanding audiences with regional political leaders.

 

Their demands are simple and have nothing to do with the inept rule, poverty, corruption and ecological disasters dogging the region. They want a 2,500-year-old mummy, found by Russian archaeologists 11 years ago and being studied in the Siberian capital of Novosibirsk, to be reinterred without delay.

 

full article at the Telegraph