Explore cities with unusual rules. Tórshavn in Faroe Islands has more sheep than people. Yakutsk in Russia shares a time zone ...

In the remote eastern Siberian city of Yakutia, Pryany Yakutsk, a popular media channel ... spurred a silent exodus of gay and trans people from Russia, activists say. But Tahir, a 25-year-old ...

Welcome to Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia—the coldest inhabited city on ... and where the resilience of its people is as fascinating as the landscape itself. For adventure seekers, Yakutsk isn ...

A Soviet-era plane landed with one propeller after the pilot was forced to shut down the engine mid-flight. Footage shows the aeroplane safely touching down on the tarmac with only a single rotor in ...

The contribution and scale of the directly linked First and Second Kamchatka Expeditions cannot be overestimated. In the 18th century, research covered Eurasia's northern coast, the entire Siberia, ...

Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.

Siberia has, since time immemorial, been a precious land sought after by major powers. The many Chinese dynasties – particularly the Han, Tang, Yuan and Qing dynasties – as well as the Mongol Empire ...

Russian authorities have in recent years dismantled or destroyed more than a dozen memorials commemorating Polish citizens, many of them victims of Soviet-era repression and forced deportations.

The necropsy took several hours and was conducted in late March at the Mammoth Museum in North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk ... in Russia, told AFP. Related: 'Closer than people think ...