Russia once controlled 20 percent of U.S. territory. That legacy helps explain its aggression against Ukraine.

Many people think that Eskimos live in igloos, but modern Eskimos in Russia live mainly in villages inside ordinary huts. However, they retain the belief system of their ancestors and continue to ...

When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father in their native Crimea in late 2022, ...

His community’s land in Russia’s Far East is home to the Siberian tiger, the world’s largest cat. In the early 2000s, the black market price for one poached animal – whose body parts and ...

STORY: Ukrainian Leniie Umerova is a member of the Crimean Tatar community indigenous to the Black Sea peninsula that was ...

When Russia launched its offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, many Indigenous people of Russia were sent to the front lines of the conflict, Foreign Policy has reported.Solovyeva shared ...

Russia officially recognizes its indigenous groups not as indigenous at all, but as "numerically small peoples," a classification that highlights the difficulties of 270,000 people collectively ...

A soldier from the Nenets ethnic minority group in Russia is filmed after being captured by Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donbas region (Picture: @‌AZOVmedia, YouTube) Some of the last members ...

Roughly 3,000 indigenous people make up about 0.5 percent of the island's total population. Despite their small numbers, ... North (RAIPON), an organization representing some 30 indigenous peoples in ...