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 ...

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Since the launch in 2018 of the federal project "Improvement of the Volga", 69 sewage treatment plants have been built and modernized. Due to this, the volume of contaminated wastewater discharged ...

Russian state register shows sanctioned cargo carrier's Moscow division, AirBridgeCargo and majority of Atran now owned by ...

NIZHNY NOVGOROD. Jan 14 (Interfax) - Dmitry Pritula has been appointed CEO of JSC Volga Shipping Company (Volga Flot) of Nizhny Novgorod, the company's press service reported. He began the new role on ...

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, ...

First of five parts In Russian folklore, the Volga River is mother and mistress, comrade and beloved companion and subject of tall tales. For today's Russia, it remains all of the above and an ...