Russia’s growing industry needs more & more cotton, and in 1938 used the entire harvest of 3,000,000 tons (12,000,000 bales). Last week the Soviet press exulted that Russia would soon export ...

But after seeing footage of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft crash down on the remote Kazakh Steppe 10 years ago, photographer Andrew McConnell became more enraptured by astronauts’ unceremonious ...

In a high-tech college and manufacturing complex in the Russian steppes, Moscow is aiming to scale up production of the weapons it needs to gain a battle advantage.

STORY: Ukrainian Leniie Umerova is a member of the Crimean Tatar community indigenous to the Black Sea peninsula that was ...

But after seeing footage of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft crash down on the remote Kazakh Steppe 10 years ago, photographer Andrew McConnell became more enraptured by astronauts’ unceremonious ...

Russia has inflation at rates approaching 20 percent (officially, they are about 9 percent), and it has been sucking its own sovereign wealth fund dry. But Ukraine is poor, too, and has man-power ...

The Russian Steppe, an expansive geographical region stretching across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, plays a pivotal role not only in human history and culture ...

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In the steppes of Kazakhstan, there is no Internet, no stable access to electricity, and there are few people. If you spend more than a day here, it seems that "civilization" exists in another ...

Researchers have analyzed the genomes of skeletons from an extended family from a Bronze Age necropolis in the Russian steppe. The 3,800-year-old 'Nepluyevsky' burial mound was excavated several ...

Russia has launched and landed there for a lot longer than Putler has been around. But Kazakhstan was the site of (yet another) color revolution in 2022, so you can be sure that the usual suspects ...