Five people have been killed and a further seven injured in a fire at a detention center in the city of Yakutsk, which houses ...

TASS/. The Ministry of Education and Science of Russia’s Sakha (Yakutia) Republic has distributed a letter to the Siberian region’s public schools and other institutions stipulating that ...

An asteroid lights up the sky in Lensk, Sakha Republic, Russia, on 4 December 2024 (REUTERS) “It will still be quite spectacular, visible for hundreds of kilometres”, Alan Fitzsimmons ...

Putin’s “partial mobilization” is continuing a brutal legacy of colonization – as well as resistance – among the country's minority groups.

That’s how he ended up in Yakutsk, Russia. The capital city of the vast (1.2 million square miles) Siberian region known as the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk is widely identified as the world’s ...

Oymyakon in Russia's Sakha Republic of north-eastern Siberia might be in a deep freeze but it's not too cold to prevent children heading to the classroom, local news portal News.Ykt.Ru reports.

Light snow showers will pass through during the day. The high will be -24°. Good air quality (0-50) Primary pollutant O₃ 42 μg/m³ Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is ...

In Russia's Sakha Republic, around five times the size of France, distances are measured in days. The trip up to Belaya Gora takes around five days if things run smoothly. Ice road Kolyma Highway ...