After he recovered from sepsis, a wild Asian foal was rejected by his mother. His vets found a mare who lost her own foal to ...

In remote Kazakhstan, photographer Andrew McConnell captured astronauts’ return from the ISS — and the nomadic communities whose lives became intertwined with space travel.

The fierce and bitter conflict on the Eastern Front, lasting four long years, would produce its own special brand of soldier, ...

The Russian Steppe, an expansive geographical region stretching across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, plays a pivotal role ...

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 ...

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

But instead of a work-study program in fields like hospitality and catering, some of them learned only after arriving on the steppes of Russia’s Tatarstan region that they would be toiling in a ...

ODESA REGION, Ukraine — There are at least two dozen statues of Vladimir Lenin standing like historical sentries over a steppe of southwestern Ukraine. Karl Marx and Josef Stalin are also there ...

Moreover, the steppe itself is being reconceptualised not as a historical void between civilisations but as an engine of innovation—transmitting technologies (like the composite bow), ideas, and ...

At the current rate, Russia will control all of Ukraine in about 118 years.

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 ...