The Russian Empire expanded across Siberia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus — but Persia remained out of reach. Geography, resistance, and European rivals kept the Tsars from conquest.

The Korean peninsula is fascinating, not only because it lies under the watch of Russia and China, but also because it is the ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

Subic Bay is back in American planning. Although described by the crew of the USS Fulton in 1945 as “a primitive, humid, unhealthy, desolate Siberia far from ...

Somewhere along the northern coast of Siberia coast in the mid-1990s, Russian researchers and their international colleagues ...

The organizers have structured the route and refueling locations: Irkutsk - Kirensk - Yakutsk - Magadan - Anadyr - Providence Bay - Nome (the US) - Fairbanks - Anchorage - Kodiak - Sitka, and back ...

The largest Russian conference on the use of scattered neutrons in condensed medium research "RNIKS-2025" has got started at ...

The project is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Vitus Bering expeditions, the 180th anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society and to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory in the Gre ...

Experience two continents in one nation as you cross the Suez Canal. While the bulk of Egypt is in Africa, the historic Sinai ...

"Those who want air sovereignty must build it. Germany must become a leading location for the development and production of ...

Lithuania's main airport was closed late on Oct. 4 following a sighting of 13 "contraband" balloons flying towards the site, ...