Putin's territories: From Crimea to Chukotka
On an overcast day in August, Russian President Vladimir Putin put aside his phone calls to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in order…
The Russian Far East, the Arctic, and foreign trade
On Monday, I wrote about the diamond mine located in Mirny, a city in the Sakha Republic in the Russian…
Seen from space: A Siberian diamond mine
A Siberian mine makes for a visually arresting site from space given that it sits smack-dab in the middle of…