Russia is transcontinental, which means that it lies in two continents. Russia is largely in the continent of Asia, but it also lies partly in Europe. It is a large country in the Northern ...

Russia has more natural gas than any other nation, with approximately 21 per cent of the world’s total supply. In recent years, Russia’s population has decreased. A fall in birth rates around ...

Russia and Ukraine are bound together by history and geography — but Putin sees danger in that symbiosis, convinced that "the emergence of a genuinely independent, democratic and Western-leaning ...

Vovchansk has no great history but its geography could not be more tragic. Just 5km (three miles) from the Russian border, ...