On Sept. 20, 1862 in Veliky Novgorod, the monument, "Millennium of Russia," was unvieled in the presence of Emperor Alexander II and his family. It was the first monument dedicated to the Russian ...

French journalist and explorer Erwann Pensec spent one year in Nizhny Novgorod and said it was the best year of his life. “The city is very calm even in the center and people are very friendly there, ...

Divided by the river Volga, the western Russian city is home to a secret museum of wooden architecture, an ‘exotic’ commuter cable car, lilac-scented wind and flight of stairs so long it’s almost ...

The word ""democracy"" has, for better or worse, morphed into a monolithic term, often defined through the political lens of the West, writes Petro (Russian Foreign Policy: From Empire to Nature-State ...

While residents of Moscow and St Petersburg argue whether it was the Soviets or the tsars who defined Russian culture, Novgorodians insist it was the Vikings. One hundred years ago, revolution flung ...

Our present day image of Russia is largely colored by its Soviet history: from Cold War nuclear arms race to Gorbachev’s Glasnost and Perestroika; the fall of the communist union in 1991 and Vladimir ...

As the city of Nizhny Novgorod prepares to welcome an army of English fans to town, plenty of its residents are casting their minds back to a distant sunny afternoon in June. It was 1993 when a ...

Russia’s Novgorod region will extend its “non-working days” for an additional week, announced Governor Andrey Nikitin on Monday, November 1. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a paid ...