In 1582, the Siberia Khanate was attacked by the Cossack ataman Yermak, who defeated Kuchum's forces and captured the capital Qashliq. Kuchum retreated into the steppes, and over the next few years ...

Satellite images show a giant hole in Siberia is rapidly expanding. The Batagay megaslump is a result of the ground thawing and collapsing as Arctic temperatures rise. It's an extreme case of a ...

The River Ob in Siberia generally marked the eastern border of the later khanate of Sibir which was formed out of this Mongol territory, while the Shaibanids migrated southwards to found a khanate of ...

A large crater in Siberia is getting bigger due to the way permafrost interacts with the environment. It is helping scientists understand more about past climates and how the permafrost is ...

In the remote village of Yar-Sale, in Northern Siberia, lives a group of elderly women. Once part of a nomadic community of reindeer herders, in their old age they spend most of their days in ...

It was not until the capture of Kazan that the route into the Khanate was opened from the south by Russia and it is only then that Russia started knowing about the Greater Siberia that comprised ...

About a third of Moscow's proposed Power of Siberia-2 pipeline project—which will connect Russia's gas fields in its Altai region to northeast China—was supposed to be built in Mongolia ...

Running away from his past life that deeply affected him negatively, he chooses to live alone in a remote cabin somewhere in cold Siberia. He operates a small café but is generally detached from ...

The Asian country, a signatory to the Rome Statute, is obliged to arrest the Russian leader but the Kremlin issued a message ...

The Shaibanids themselves converted to Islam in 1282. The River Ob in Siberia generally marked the eastern border of the later khanate of Sibir which was formed out of this Mongol territory, while the ...