The population was wealthy, multicultural and highly literate. The citizens of Novgorod communicated in letters, scrawled on birch bark, that were dashed off with the immediacy of e-mail.

In 2024, births in Russia fell to 1.22 million — the lowest level since 1999 — while deaths increased by 3.3% annually, to ...

The ancient city of Nizhny Novgorod, the gem of central Russia, has been mentioned in chronicles since 1221. Today, it serves not only as the heart of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast but also as the ...

Novgorod’s regional coronavirus task force has reported 284 new infections — double the daily tally from a month ... Less than 35% of Russia’s population has been fully vaccinated so far, ...

According to Copydude, Novgorod is a city where children's playgrounds look abandoned and prams are “an unusual sight.” Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how ...

For 600 years between its founding in 862 and the fall of the Novgorod Republic in 1478, this city state along the mighty Volkhov River was Russia’s most advanced artistic and political center.

It is only inside the fortified Novgorod Kremlin – one of the oldest fortified citadels in Russia – that you get a sense of this place’s historical significance. This, the Novgorodians say ...