Without these incredible horses, Yakuts would never have survived in this extreme place. “For us, horses are a sacred animal,” a herder tells Thompson. “They are our God. Without horses ...

The mammoths’ tusks, which could spiral to more than 13 feet, are reemerging from the permafrost—and fueling a trade that benefits the people of Arctic Siberia, including the native Yakuts ...

Living in Eastern Siberia (some 100 km north of Yakuts), far from urban centres, enabled Sieroszewski to strike close ties with the locals. A marriage with a Yakut woman and a friendship with a local ...

Belarus-Yakutia co-operation should not be limited only to economy – as stated by Belarus’ President Aleksandr Lukashenko during his ...

That was unheard of: January in Siberia is so brutally cold that human breath can freeze with a tinkling sound that the indigenous Yakuts call “the whisper of stars.” The Soviets used to land ...

The Russian government has always seen indigenous peoples, such as Bashkirs, Buryats, Tatars, Yakuts, and others, as expendable resources in the war against Ukraine. In response, the organization ...

or Yakuts. Talk of Ukraine joining NATO is a distraction from this important development and only goads Russia into a frenzy ...

A year later, the SakhaChai Company (Sakha is how Yakuts call themselves, Chai is Russian for tea) made a tonne, and by 2019 - 7.5 tonnes. "We used to sell tea, and then began making it ...

SOCHI/MOSCOW, November 28. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the West doesn’t need a large Russia. "In principle, the West does not need such a large and multinational country as ...