Vladimir Putin looks set to cruise to another landslide victory in the upcoming presidential election in Russia on March 19. But even for Putin -- who has just been polled with a 71% approval rating - ...

Many people think of Siberia as an uninhabited wilderness of permafrost and pine forests. But in fact most Siberians live in modern cities connected by road and rail links, with the major cities – ...

A monument has been erected in the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk to honor victims of the brutal purges from the 1930s to the 1950s, despite efforts by the Russian government to glorify Soviet ...

At a meeting in Soviet Russia's Krasnoyarsk territory in 1930, residents of Solona Village listened to state functionaries espousing what they claimed were the advantages of collective farms. No one ...

Frostbite and hypothermia are 'almost as common as the cold itself' in the bone-chilling Siberian city of Yakutsk. With December temperatures ranging between -31 and -41 fahrenheit, and an average of ...

"However, we have other candidate cities for holding this tournament and I believe that the [RWF] Executive Committee will come out with its final decision sometime in September," Maxim Agapitov said ...