One of the most popular car brands in the USSR, Volga, was a favorite of Vladimir Putin and Yuri Gagarin. It even became a hero of dark urban legends in Eastern Europe. Designed by the Gorky ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 1960s Russian sedan is not something we would have expected to find deep in the woods in upstate New York, but, to be honest, there are not that many places in North America where we would have ...

Too many dams have made Russia's most important river dysfunctional. Here's how the mother river can be fixed. You can find Dubna, a small town three hours away from Moscow by train, both on a map and ...

A Barbour County man is facing a felony and two misdemeanor charges in Upshur County after allegedly threatening to assault an Upshur County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant while being processed for DUI and ...

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 ...

In the two decades since the dissolution of the USSR, Russian and Western experts, human rights activists, and journalists have become accustomed to the political violence of the North Caucasus.

Moscow — Russian authorities said Tuesday that they have detained a long-wanted serial killer, known as the "Volga maniac," suspected of murdering at least 26 elderly women between 2011 and 2012. The ...

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, ...