The Chukotka peninsula is Russia's most northeastern expanse, stretching into the Bering Strait less than 100 kilometers from Alaska. Travel to the sparsely populated region is usually restricted for ...

Discover Russia's Chukotka, a groundbreaking nuclear icebreaker designed to crush Arctic ice 2.8 meters thick. Powered by ...

Russia’s nuclear icebreaker Chukotka has successfully tested its emergency diesel generators, ensuring backup power and ...

In July, Kirsten Swann of Alaska Dispatch News flew to Chukotka on a journey led by Anchorage-based Circumpolar Expeditions. Over two weeks, the group traveled more than 300 miles along the coast in ...

ANADYR, March 5. /TASS/. A new university on Chukotka, organization of which Deputy Minister on Development of the Far East and Arctic Alexander Krutikov has announced earlier, should educate a ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Russia's President Putin attends Orthodox Christmas liturgy outside Moscow MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin ...

Moscow — Dozens of polar bears have moved into the outskirts of a village in Russia's far north, forcing residents to take extra precautions as the hungry animals scrounge for food. Environmentalists ...

Robert Qaummaluk Lisbourne remembers how, when he was growing up, walruses started to beach near Point Lay in large numbers. It was always an exciting time for local hunters. But he said a stream of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Russian tanker. Photo: CTS An explosion has struck a Russian tanker belonging to the so-called shadow fleet near the coast of ...