Just outside St. Petersburg, a small, ancient ethnos comes to terms with its history, its language, and with its inevitable end.

RIA Novosti's annual survey, ranking each Russian region by residents' quality of life, has some not-so-surprising results.

Natalia was raised between downtown St. Petersburg and a small village. She is passionate about sharing all aspects of Russian life: both the good and the bad.
 

This creative conservation project benefits both the endangered snow leopards in the Altai region and local farmers and their livestock.

One wouldn’t expect it to be an issue for a snowman to be left out in the cold, but in the village of Zachachye in Arkhangelsk Oblast, four such fellows were found wanting for warmth.

Gulnaz has lived in many places: the Siberian North, St. Petersburg, Georgia, and Moscow. And shurpa has been with her wherever she went.

Russian scientists are attempting to bring tea cultivation to more Northern regions of the country. 

Icy winter waters were no threat to a talented reporter who dove in to save a puppy from the cold.

Where we explore Russia’s oenophilic intentions and vine-driven tourism, rooted in the hills of Krasnodar Krai.

Our intrepid Far Eastern explorer gets it into his head to trek through uninhabited wilds in order to ascend his region’s tallest peak. Not all goes to plan.

Russian scientists are researching the cause of a massive die-off of marine life off the coast of Kamchatka in October.

Historic wooden buildings in Tomsk are under threat.