Over the next two decades it became Russia’s equivalent of Amazon. Customers from Siberia to the Crimean Peninsula (which was ...

Understanding Permafrost and Its Global Distribution Permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen year-round, covers an impressive 24% of the Northern Hemisphere. It stretches across wide swaths of ...

Let’s talk about Norilsk, Russia. It’s a city with a population of over 180,000 people in northern Russia. It is located inside the Arctic Circle in Siberia where the average January high ...

Of this 6 million, more than a third came from Norilsk Nickel — the Russian company that supposedly sits on the ... the result of volcanic eruptions around the Siberian Traps region. The ores ...

Irkutsk is in fact the dam that holds and controls this huge expanse of water, uniting parts of the whole of Siberia in a special version of the ‘one indivisible Russia’. The Irkutsk ...

Russia's Nornickel , a major world producer of refined nickel and palladium, said on Tuesday it is in active talks on a joint ...

Russia once launched an astonishing space mission straight out of a James Bond film in a bid to light up Siberia during its dark winter months. Renowned Russian space engineer Vladimir ...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Monday that the U.S.-Russia relations are on the verge of a major breakdown. Despite President Trump claiming that he spoke with Russian ...

Russian battlefield casualties — dead and injured — have risen to more than 1,500 a day over the last three months, posing serious problems when it comes to replacing their numbers, military ...