VOLGOGRAD, Russia — As she rode a ferry past golden birch forests to her dacha, Galina Kudryavtseva looked at the waters of the mighty Volga River with the love of a child for her mother. “Life ...
August was slipping away, and with it Germany’s chance of a decisive victory. There was still time, but the time grew shorter. German gains had been great—Rostov, the last of the Ukraine, the northern ...
Climb Levitan’s Hill Visit one of the art galleries and maybe even buy a picture by a local artist Try the beer and traditional delicacies at the Plyos beer house inside an 18th-century building Walk ...
En route to a wedding in Astrakhan, writer Thom Wheeler traced the length of the 2,200-mile Volga river, by foot, boat, bus and train The Volga river slices through the heartland of Russia and covers ...
In the central Russian city of Ulyanovsk, bathers at a popular municipal beach must traipse more than 200 meters to reach the waters of the Kuibyshev Reservoir. Near Kazan, the capital of Russia's ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is travelling in a Volga car along the Volga river to take a snapshot of life in Vladimir Putin's Russia, as the presidential election looms. This is his first piece, ...
“We’re not Russians! Never let anyone label us that way. Just because a chicken lays an egg in an oven, that doesn’t make the egg a biscuit.” I remember hearing those words as a child. My mother went ...
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