Nowhere is the Volga River more hallowed than in the city named after it: Volgograd, better known to history as Stalingrad. During World War II, perhaps the bloodiest battle in history took place ...

In Russian folklore, the Volga River is mother and mistress, comrade and beloved companion and subject of tall tales. For today's Russia, it remains all of the above and an important source of water, ...

The Volga River is the longest river in Europe and runs through Russia with its delta flowing into the Caspian Sea just south of the Kazakhstan border. The International Space Station was orbiting ...

Russia is quietly transforming its vast network of rivers and canals from mere transport routes into a strategic lever of influence across Eurasia. The so-called Unified Deep Water System (UDWS) links ...

More than 20,000 soldiers from Russia's Povolzhye -- territories comprising several regions around the Volga River -- have died in Ukraine since the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion of its ...

A Ukrainian drone strike forced the full suspension of operations at Lukoil's Volgograd refinery, one of Russia’s largest ...

The church leader from Murmansk stands at the front of a new partnership between the Orthodox Church and the Russian ...

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Two people were wounded when a Ukrainian drone hit a residential building in the Russian city of Saratov, local governor Roman Busargin said in a statement on Saturday. Saratov, an ...

Yaroslavsky Shipbuilding Plant says it has launched the seagoing tug of project 23470. The vessel named Sergei Bulk is the lead tug in the series of five vessels ordered to the shipyard by RF Defence ...

Three Ukrainian drones hit an electricity substation in the northern Russian region of Vologda overnight, regional governor Georgy Filimonov said on Saturday.