14 members of Russia’s flora and fauna community that should be known to any self-respecting Russophile.

The Caucasus had a fast-growing plant that the Soviets wanted to plant up north to use for animal feed. What could possibly go wrong?

A shortage of clean drinking water threatens to become the main ecological problem of our time.

Snakes, shashlik, secret Soviet structures, students: just a few things you can find on Russky Island. 
 

On June 21, 1900, an intrepid explorer set off to find a mysterious Arctic island. He was never to be seen again.

On the eastern tip of Crimea is a mysterious, salty lake. We take you there.