Vasily Sarana, the 33-year-old chief of the Russian Geographic Society's Putorana expedition and a mountaineer who seemed capable of bounding up vertical walls, was not in such an undignified ...

PETERSBURG, April 27. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued instructions to make a World Atlas that would not distort the "historical and geographic truth" about the real names of ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Everyone in Russia has a dacha story. It may be a trace of childhood memory like playing ball late into evening by grace ...

Russia is transcontinental, which means that it lies in two continents. Russia is largely in the continent of Asia, but it also lies partly in Europe. It is a large country in the Northern ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.

MURMANSK, September 2. /TASS/. The expedition team of the Northern Fleet and the Russian Geographic Society sailed around the Novaya Zemlya archipelago and is ready to return to the Fleet’s main ...