In our latest installment on pandemic travel in Russia, our contributor is enthralled by the diversity and hidden gems he found in the southern Russian city by the Volga River. When we entered the ATR ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukrainian drones attacked energy facilities in Russia's Astrakhan and Volgograd oblasts overnight on Feb. 3, causing fires, ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed a desire to travel to Astrakhan when he visits Russia later this month for the annual summit with President Vladimir Putin. Prime Minister Narendra ...

Produced by filmmakers from Gilan Province within the framework of the sister-city agreement between Rasht, capital of Gilan, and Astrakhan, the film explores the cultural, social, and historical ...

During a meeting with the region’s deputy governor and minister of industry, Ahmad Heidarian, Iran’s consul general in Astrakhan, emphasized the strategic importance of deepening economic and ...

This week, Russian Life takes you to the Volga Delta near Astrakhan, where Europe’s largest river flows into the Caspian Sea. This unique environment makes the region a fisherman’s dream. Far from the ...

In April 1912, on the River Lena, in a remote corner of distant Siberia, 300 hungry workers, exhausted by their unbearable workload and intolerable living conditions, were shot by low-ranking agents ...

MOSCOW -- Astrakhan has become the latest front in the ongoing struggle between the Kremlin and the opposition in the regions. Opposition leaders and activists are rushing to the southern Russian city ...

OLEG SHEIN may appear gaunt and wobbly, but his voice is buoyant. Since March 16th Mr Shein, along with several supporters, has been on hunger strike. They are protesting against an alleged fraud that ...