By Nizom Khodjayev in Astana The shrinking of the Caspian Sea is not a new topic in the CIS region by a long way, but alarm ...

In the vast white expanse around Churapcha in eastern Siberia, the ever more rapid thaw of the permafrost is changing the ...

The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water, is at the heart of the Eurasian landmass. Its unique geography, ...

Nearly nine months after losing chunks of the Kursk region to a surprise Ukrainian incursion, Russia has announced that its troops have fully reclaimed the border territory ...

Against the background of a general increase in unemployment, which began again in 2025, it continued to fall in some regions ...

Volunteers counting Russia’s losses in the war in Ukraine have long pointed to the disproportionate numbers of ethnic ...

UKRAINE-CRISIS/KURSK-GOVERNOR (UPDATE 3, PIX):UPDATE 3-Ex-governor of Russia's Kursk region held over embezzlement of defence funds MOSCOW, - The former governor of ...

MOSCOW: The former governor of Russia’s Kursk region and his ex-deputy have been arrested on suspicion of embezzling over $12 million of funds earmarked for border defences with Ukraine ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The former governor of Russia's Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, was detained on Wednesday on suspicion of fraud, state news agency TASS reported. Smirnov was head of the western ...

The Central area includes Voronezh, Russia’s fifth-biggest grain producer, and Kursk, Russia’s seventh-largest grain-producing region. The Volga area includes Saratov, the country’s No. 6 ...

Russia claimed on Sunday that it took control of another village amid its ongoing offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. A statement by the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that its ...

President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss a possible ceasefire in Russia's war in Ukraine. "This is another step in the ...