More than 20,000 soldiers from Russia's Povolzhye -- territories comprising several regions around the Volga River -- have died in Ukraine since the start of Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor ...

Hartley’s chronological narrative, rich in vivid detail, begins over 1,000 years ago, when the principality of Kievan Rus vied with the Khazar Khaganate and the Bulgars for the lucrative trade on the ...

A 1989 book about the river called out the people behind the construction of reservoirs that led to “the life-giving water of the Volga turning into dead water, with nothing for us to do about ...

A barge ran aground spilling 190 tonnes of fuel oil into the Volga River on Monday, but the incident has not disrupted traffic, a duty officer at Russia's Emergencies Ministry said.

L ess than one month after a devastating riverboat accident on the Volga River, an overloaded motorboat crashes into a barge in the heart of Moscow Moscow, July 31, 2011 Russian emergency workers ...