EADaily, December 29th, 2025. On the night of December 28-29 and this morning, air defense systems repelled an attack by the ...

This northern Russian city has kept some remnants from the time when local forests were inhabited by tribes of the Ilmen Slavs and Vikings would fight sword battles along the banks of its rivers.

On July 26, 1951 during excavations in Veliky Novgorod, the first Russian birch bark writing was found dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries. The ancient writings are short texts carved onto the ...

Situated on the ancient trade route between Central Asia and northern Europe, Novgorod was Russia's first capital in the 9th century. Surrounded by churches and monasteries, it was a centre for ...

Our present day image of Russia is largely colored by its Soviet history: from Cold War nuclear arms race to Gorbachev’s Glasnost and Perestroika; the fall of the communist union in 1991 and Vladimir ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of essays profiling all of the cities set to host World Cup games this summer. Eliot Rothwell visited every venue to get a sense of how preparations were ...

Divided by the river Volga, the western Russian city is home to a secret museum of wooden architecture, an ‘exotic’ commuter cable car, lilac-scented wind and flight of stairs so long it’s almost ...