Freeze Parking: Russian Cat Escapes Winter’s Grip A cat sheltering under a parked car on a cold Russian winter night was saved from the pavement's icy grip…
Dangerously Beautiful: Russia’s Kola Peninsula The exquisite beauty of Russia's far northern Kola Peninsula shines through decades of environmental damage in photographer Vasily G's breathtaking…
Tiger Face Jet Supports Endangered Big Cats Transaero Airlines and the Amur Tiger Center have launched – literally – a joint project that saw the nose of…
Ruskie Business: Soviet Wooden Space Shuttle It never made it to orbit but a wooden mock-up of Buran, the USSR's space shuttle, did spend 25 years…
Canceled Gas Pipeline Thrills Environmentalists The cancelled South Stream natural gas pipeline project was to bring Russian gas through Bulgaria to the EU via a…
Cold Comfort: Polar Bear Swims Do A Body Good Polar Bear Swims are all in a day's work for polar bears but how to explain the popularity of these…
A Tale Of Zoo Kitties: Stray Cat & Lynx Are Now BFFFs A stray calico cat found both a home and a Best Feline Friend Forever after sneaking into a European Lynx's…
Animal Mascots Of The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Animals dominated the final selections for the official mascots of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. See if…
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12 Mysterious and Dramatic Natural Wonders of Russia To the rest of the world, Russia has often been cloaked in mystery, with political affairs clouding our sense of…