horse-riding cattle herders from Russia who built imposing grave mounds like this one near Žabalj, Serbia. This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The idea ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and vulnerable to a pest called the varroa mite. But Russian bees are more resistant to it, and backyard beekeepers ...

Russia is one of only a few countries (Indonesia ... Natasha Daly is a staff writer and editor at National Geographic. Kirsten Luce is a freelance photographer based in New York.