In July, Kirsten Swann of Alaska Dispatch News flew to Chukotka on a journey led by Anchorage-based Circumpolar Expeditions. Over two weeks, the group traveled more than 300 miles along the coast in ...

Robert Qaummaluk Lisbourne remembers how, when he was growing up, walruses started to beach near Point Lay in large numbers. It was always an exciting time for local hunters. But he said a stream of ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

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ANADYR, March 5. /TASS/. A new university on Chukotka, organization of which Deputy Minister on Development of the Far East and Arctic Alexander Krutikov has announced earlier, should educate a ...

The government highlights five priority tourism directions: Anadyr and its surroundings, Egvekinot, East Chukotka, Pevek and the Wrangel Island, as well as mainland Chukotka ANADYR, December 16.

Daily life can be a real slog for residents of Chukotka, Russia's easternmost region, a frozen wasteland within sight of Alaska. Current Time correspondent Vadim Kondakov takes a look at what locals ...

One might get the impression that Chukotka and Alaska are two far—flung regions of different countries that are separated by the vast Pacific Ocean. But in fact, these are neighboring territories, ...