Escalating tensions between the U.S. and Russia over the war in Ukraine are promoting talk and fears of WWIII and a nuclear ...

Russia is jamming GPS signals, analysts believe, along what used to be known as a ‘Soviet sea’ and that is emerging as a ...

Baikal-S processors find their way to Russia after a two year hiatus despite restrictions by the U.S. government and ...

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The Russian government this week approved a plan to build an oil pipeline close to the shore of Lake Baikal, the world ... But the Kremlin said Russia sorely needs a route to move Siberian ...

Secretary of Russia's Security Council Nikolai Patrushev attends a meeting in Moscow on October 26, 2019. Patrushev named the ‘NATO lake' as the country’s most important military task.

In northern Asia, life defies hostile extremes. In Russia's Lake Baikal, a seal pup must take evasive action when its ice den starts to melt. Hokkaido's thermal springs are a haven for dancing red ...

The mind-boggling amount has grown because Google hasn't restored YouTube accounts belonging to 17 Russian TV channels, according to Russia's RBC News. It claims a judge in the case said at a ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when the Soviet Union and the US came close to nuclear war.

But Ukrainian officials are almost certainly concerned about what a Trump presidency could mean for the country's fight against Russia. Among the first world leaders to publicly react to Donald ...

The “comprehensive strategic partnership treaty,” which Russian President Vladimir Putin signed with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on a visit to Pyongyang in June, obliges Russia and North ...