Eyewitness video shows two plumes of smoke over Saransk in Russia's Volga river region of Mordovia. Video credit: Social ...

They looked at me with serene attention, they seemed almost to be following me with their eyes.” The Volga Rises in Europe by ...

The volley came just days before a planned parade in the capital to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in ...

Leading up to the 80th anniversary of the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany, President Vladimir Putin has renamed Volgograd ...

President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko paid a working visit to Volgograd, the Russian FederationThe President of Belarus, together ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ...

Thanks to these technologies, Moscow residents and visitors to the capital can go on a virtual tour of VDNKh, join a space ...

The new name, “Stalingrad International,” commemorates Soviet WWII victory, reflecting growing Soviet nostalgia and authoritarian symbolism as part of broader efforts to justify Putin’s war in Ukraine ...

Situated on the western bank of the Volga River, Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd in 1961 under the government of then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, amid a period of political reforms after the ...

The city had been founded on the Volga River as Tsaritsyn in the 16th century, and was the site of a significant battle during the Russian Civil War, changing hands multiple times. In 1925 ...

There have been at least two major attempts in 2013 and 2021, primarily spearheaded by Russia's Communist Party, to rename ...