Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west Ancient DNA is reshaping the story of Europe’s Uralic languages: instead of the Urals, their ...

A top Russian academic was among the passengers in a fatal Russian air crash on Thursday morning. Natalia Shiyan, 33, who held a master's degree in chemical and biological technologies, was flying ...

Fighting has raged in Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion more than three years ago. Over the past year, Russian forces have slowly expanded the amount of territory they control ...

It has been reported that Russian forces in Ukraine include troops from countries as diverse as China, Uzbekistan and Ghana.

Russia has advanced around Pokrovsk for many months, but has so far failed to entirely encircle or seize control of the city.

Ukraine's authoritative DeepState war map showed on Tuesday that Russian forces had advanced by at least 10 km (six miles) north in two prongs in recent days.

How Russia's gradual gains in the face of fierce Ukrainian opposition have affected the front line in recent months.

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s eastern coast on late Wednesday morning, local time. The quake triggered tsunami waves across the Pacific that hit Russia, Japan, Canada and parts ...

Russian forces have made a sudden thrust into eastern Ukraine near the coal mining town of Dobropillia, a move that may be an attempt to increase the pressure on Kyiv to give up land as the U.S ...

The wreckage of a passenger plane that went missing over a remote area of eastern Russia on Thursday has been located, according to the country's Civil Defence Ministry. The Antonov An-24 was en ...