Bone-chilling winter temperatures. Sub-Arctic taiga forests as far as the eye can see. Blinding clouds of mosquitos. Vast deposits of diamonds, gold, and other minerals. Add to the list of qualities ...
KHABAROVSK, July 10 (Itar-Tass) —— A total of 20 out of 68 wildfires have been extinguished in Russia’s Far Eastern regions over the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the Far Eastern federal district ...
Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” is an inventive study of Russia’s cultural practices and its reigning mythologies ...
The fate of Russia's forests will affect the whole world, says Sophie Pinkham, a scholar and journalist who has spent years ...
In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still there ...