Beyond nuclear icebreakers, Russia maintains conventional icebreakers and is constructing four non-nuclear, ice-class Project ...

Atyrau, a majority-Muslim Kazakh city in a Central Asian desert known for its history of Cossack rebellions, doesn’t sound ...

Several villages in the Chelyabinsk and Bashkortostan regions of Russia were cut off from transport links as melting ice caused river levels to rise and burst their banks. Russia agrees to pause ...

On the eastern side, the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the Bosporus Strait separate it from Asia. Australia is the smallest continent in the ...