Oymyakon in Yakutia is the coldest village in Russia, considered the “pole of cold”. In 1933, a temperature of minus 67.7°C ( ...

Nizhny Novgorod is one of the largest cities in Russia (1.2 million people). In the old days, Nizhny Novgorod was a busy merchant city and, in the Soviet era, became known as the home of ‘GAZ’ vehicle ...

10 revealing facts about Russian. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Russian with audio.

A Russian district court fined Alphabet's Google 3.8 million roubles ($38,057) on Monday for failing to remove banned content ...

Given that Russian is the country's second official language, signs and official documents will though remain bilingual: in the Kazakh with Latin letters and in Russian with the Cyrillic alphabet.

While zed in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet is written differently - and looks like a 3 - most Russians recognise Latin letters. Emily Ferris - Russia and Eurasia research fellow at the Royal ...

10 revealing facts about Russian. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Russian with audio.