How 'Swan Lake' became a symbol of protest in Russia "It's almost impossible now in Russia to protest in direct forms." By Vika Aronson, Brad Mielke, and Meredith Deliso. April 29, 2022, 5:17 PM.

During Russia’s winter months, cars can safely drive on it for hours. Elena Anosova for The Washington Post Weekend visitors on the famously clear ice of Russia's Lake Baikal on March 8.

A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet caught on fire and crashed into a lake while conducting a training flight in the country’s northern Murmansk region on Wednesday.

A former U.S. general has warned against complacency that Sweden's membership of NATO had stifled the threat posed by Russia to the West.. On Monday, Hungary's parliament ratified Sweden's ...

Russia has detained an oil tanker after it left an Estonian port, as tensions increase between Moscow and the Baltic nation bordering the sea dubbed a "NATO lake."Estonia's foreign ministry said ...

Russian ecologists have condemned a plan by authorities to allow a higher amount of toxic waste material to be dumped into Lake Baikal, which is already facing an environmental crisis.

Who: Kirstin Bebell of Westminster (recently living in Russia) and Shannon Dolan of Parker Where: Lake Baikal, Siberia Best meal: If you can get a home-cooked meal, you will understand why so few ...

Russian explorers plunged to the bed of the world's deepest lake on Tuesday in a show of Moscow's resurgent scientific ambitions, but had to withdraw a claim to have set a new record.

It's being called the most polluted spot on the planet. While Russia's Lake Karachay might look pretty in a painting that's as close as you ever want to get to it. In 1990, the US organization ...

HoriZen Video. Drone Reveals Lake Baskunchak: Russia's Salt Flats Wonder. Posted: January 16, 2025 | Last updated: January 16, 2025. Take a flight high above the otherworldly landscapes of Lake ...

The crater lake that sits within the Tsar-Rusyr caldera and surrounds Krenitsyna Peak is known as Kol'tsevoye Lake. It is 1,200 feet (370 m) deep, making it one of the deepest lakes in Russia ...

A Russian fighter jet has crashed into a lake after bursting into flames during a training exercise, according to Russian state media. The MiG-31 fighter jet crashed in the northern Murmansk ...