Andrei Borodulin, the writer and photographer who penned "Gone Fishing," an article about the Volga River delta for our September/October issue, sent us this fantastic short video captured while reporting that story.

In Chelyabinsk, for the first time, an agricultural enterprise is under legal heat for the mass killing of bees.

Big cats can rest easy knowing that both the Amur Tiger and the Amur Leopard have been declared safe from the possibility of extinction. 

A court has found two men guilty of poaching—men whose job it is to prevent the poaching of fish.

Subarctic summer Siberia is hosting snow and wildfires at the same time.

The highest mountain in Russia has a bit of a trashy problem. 

Did you know that wild lotus flowers are native to Russia? Well, here's an interactive map of where to find them in the Astrakhan region.  

There has long been anxiety about a “Chinese takeover” of Siberia. Even Lake Baikal is not immune.

A Russian zoo will open its very first exhibit to allow the observation of hibernating bears, but will it allow the bears to get some good shut-eye? 

In this week's Odder News, a skydiver plunges into family breakfast, Russian and American actors fly into space, and robots are taking over.

Bees and people aren't really that different after all: Apparently, both get a little disoriented when the weather gets too hot and they have had a little bit too much to drink. 

A usual weather phenomenon called "Milky Rain" occurred recently in the Moscow region, but it wasn't nearly as delicious as it sounds.