“If the command of our army withdraws people from certain points of the front where the enemy has the greatest fire superiority — in particular this applies to Lysychansk — it means only one thing: we will return thanks to our tactics, thanks to the increase in the supply of modern weapons.”

– Ukrainian President Zelensky, addressing the loss of Lysychansk to Russian forces

A Georgian company is selling NFTs of Russian territories to help rebuild Ukraine. 

Russian soldiers are fleeing Chernobyl fortifications due to claims of radiation sickness. 

Putin's attempt to undermine Ukraine backfired ... due to corruption.

Many famous landmarks across the globe have been illuminated with blue and yellow lights, showing solidarity with Ukraine. 

Zelensky's response to Putin recognizing the "independence" of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics crystallizes the ongoing conflict.

In which we unpack what Putin had to say about Ukraine while in France and what it's got to do with a punk band and a folk ditty.

The world's youngest female pilot to circumnavigate the globe recently stopped in Russia's Far East.

You’ve not been fishing until you have explored the Volga River delta. And what better guide to take us there than the intrepid Andrei Borodulin?

It is astonishing to think that as recently as the eighteenth century – not the Middle Ages, not the days of Marco Polo, but in the supposedly enlightened eighteenth century – people still had only the vaguest idea of where Asia ended and America began.

An often-overlooked high-seas tale of swashbuckling adventure, empire, and exchange between Russia and Japan.

Yandex.Maps has completed a surprising study of all the places in Russia, and they even figured out how to get from the Moon to Mars.