People have raised nearly $27,000 to buy a new apartment for a disabled man in the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk
In Russia’s Urals region, towns that once churned out industrial chemicals and coal are now largely abandoned. Verkhnyaya Gubakha was once a thriving city of more than 30,000, but the population has dwindled, and the landscape is returning to forested taiga
The Circum-Baikal Railway was a feat of engineering when it was built during the reign of Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II. Today, the route beside the world’s deepest lake is used more for tourism than for transport, but it still inspires visitors with its stunning views
Desertification and overgrazing are threatening the Nogai steppe in the Russian Republic of Daghestan
Valery Melnikov was known in Russia for the huge New Year’s cards he created on the ice and snow of a frozen river in the country’s Far East
Russian student Aleksei Dudoladov has resorted to climbing up a tree to participate in online classes because there’s no clear Internet signal in his Siberian village.
In the southern Russian Daghestani village of Kvankhidatl, people extract salt using a unique ancient method. They claim they produce the purest and most delicious salt in the world
The Gamov Peninsula is an isolated region in Russia’s Far East , with influences from neighboring Japan, China, and North and South Korea. But the hardy few who live there cherish their solitude and are glad to be off the authorities’ radar
Two protest movements are 9,000 kilometers apart: one in Russia and one in Belarus — but they’re united by their desire for basic democratic norms. Current Time reporters tracked down the protesters in Khabarovsk, in Russia’s Far East, who reached out to their counterparts in Belarus, and the demonstrators in Minsk who responded
In the Sulak canyon of Russia’s Republic of Daghestan, farmers rely on a system of makeshift, hand-powered cable cars to transport their produce across a mountain river