If a vessel is unlucky enough to be berthed as a river ferry in Yakutsk, it will spend most of its life frozen into the surface of the Lena River.

The weather has been all over the place in Russia, and future forecasts predict more of the same.

Five Russian oblasts have schooled the rest in good socio-economic policy, according to recent awards from the Expert Institute of Social Research.

Approximately 600 fishermen were stuck on an ice floe, despite being warned about the dangerous ice.

Everyone’s a kid at Christmastime, and, beginning this holiday season, pensioners in Kostroma Oblast can be kids year-round at Russia’s first “kindergarten” for pensioners.

Russia is a little out of touch with reality this week: gates lead to nowhere, cows get VR, and bankers think the economy is like Harry Potter.

Fall starts on a harmonious note, Putin’s meeting with the Saudis — not so much. Also, happy birthday to vodka!

While city vehicles go for a stroll, death comes knocking — twice.

In the public mind, Russian forests have always been an unlimited resource. Not any longer.

Known as “Russia’s Tibet,” the Altai region is vast, unpeopled, and brimming with energy centers.

Vladimir left the big city to set up a farm in rural Lipetsk Oblast. And he doesn’t regret it one bit.

A telling photo from Voronezh's Central Market.