MOSCOW. April 9 (Interfax) - No more than 3% of winter crops in Russia have failed this year, data from the Russian Agriculture Center (Rosselkhoztsentr) showed.

Every winter in Russia's east, rivers that vein the enormous open spaces of Siberia freeze solid. Once the cold begins to bite, life for most people in the region turns inward. But for one group ...

Opening up Siberia, the Cossacks hastened Russia’s transformation from a middle ... The constant light, at two in the morning as bright as an overcast winter noon, hindered sleep.

In the midst of an endless Siberian forest in ... 3,400 miles east of Moscow, where winter temperatures plunge to -58 degrees Fahrenheit. For that reason, Russian engineers began working on ...