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Shaping a Far East dream

May 23, 2012 Anna Arutunyan, The Moscow News
A new state-run company with vast powers may be created to transform Siberia and the Far East into a dynamic economic region

Giant Buddha planned for Tuva

May 15, 2012 Nathan Toohey, The Moscow News
A Tibet enterprise has been given the go ahead to build a 15-meter-high Buddha statue, to be placed atop a mountain outside the Tuvan capital of Kyzyl

Creating a federal Russia: The Indian experience

May 10, 2012 Vinay Shukla, specially for RIR
Putin could learn from federal politics in India in his quest to create a viable federation of multi-religious and multi-ethnic societies

Leningrad Region invites investors from India

May 3, 2012 InfoShos
Valery Serdyukov, Governor of Leningrad Region, invited Indian investors to participate in the industrial zone development project around the port of Ust-Luga.

The distant latitudes of childhood

May 1, 2012 Ferran Mateo, RIR
Evgenia Arbugaeva has received a Magnum Foundation International grant for a project in her hometown of Tiksi

Divide the imperia

April 30, 2012 Nikolay Petrov, Russia Profile
The regions and their relations with the federal center are of primary importance for Russia, the biggest country and a federation with the largest number of jurisdictions in the world

Russia revives magic of Syrian steel

April 19, 2012 Grigory Kubatian, RIR
It’s hard to revive the magic of the Damascus steel. But in the Russian town of Vorsma, master craftsmen have perfected a new class of knives which is fondly called “Russian bulat” or “bulat damask”

Talashkino: Reviving Russia's artistic traditions

April 16, 2012 William Brumfield, RIR
The estate of Princess Maria Tenisheva at Talashkino is located in the rolling, forested countryside to the south of Smolensk

Reliance forges petrochem ties with Tatarstan

April 11, 2012 Dadan Upadhyay, specially for RIR
RIL's plan to forge strategic partnership in petrochem and oil sectors with the Russian region of Tatarstan is a win-win tie-up.

Airliner crash kills at least 31

April 2, 2012 Russia Today TV Channel, RIA Novosti
A passenger plane has crashed early Monday morning in Russia's Tyumen region, in Siberia. The country’s Emergencies Ministry says at least 31 people out of the 43 onboard were killed

As South Ossetia votes, an election controversy

March 26, 2012 Anna Nemtsova
There was joy when Alla Dzhioyeva was elected president of this independent republic that broke from Georgia after the 2008 war. But the result was overturned and she says she is a prisoner in her hospital bed

Vladivostok 2012: dolling up for the APEC summit

March 23, 2012 Artem Zagorodnov, reporting from Vladivostok
Preparations for the 2012 APEC summit are transforming Vladivostok’s skyline, but residents of this economically struggling city are worried about what will happen when federal funds run out

Within the Russian hospital

March 21, 2012 Emma Burrows, RIR
Among the sites few tourists to Russia hope to see is the inside of a local hospital, but should such a visit be necessary, it isn’t something to fear

Business goes where the rules are clear

March 16, 2012 Artem Zagorodnov, reporting from Vladivostok
President Dmitry Medvedev sacked of Primorye Governor Sergei Darkin just months before the upcoming APEC summit in Vladivostok. As his successor, Medvedev nominated 44-year-old Vladimir Miklushevsky, rector of the Far Eastern Federal University

Ulan-Ude: A taste of Asia

March 16, 2012 Emma Burrows, RIR
A British tourist shares her experience about the trip to Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, which encompasses part of Lake Baikal

Big hopes for Vladivostok summit

March 11, 2012 Alexander Gabuev, Kommersant
In preparation for its chairmanship of this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Russia is doing more than just building venues in Vladivostok

An Islamic town of Hope and Control

February 27, 2012 Judith Matloff
Shattered cement and ghostly streets in the Chechen city of Grozny have been replaced by glitzy shops, soccer stadiums and reduced violence

Krasnoyarsk: Taking a break from the Trans-Siberian

February 14, 2012 Emma Burrows
On the route of the Trans-Siberian railway, the city of Krasnoyarsk is a good stop between the major destinations of Yekaterinburg and Irkutsk. Among Russian tourists, the city is known as a destination for extreme sports.

Buddhist revival attracts Russian Buryats to India

January 31, 2012 Ajay Kamalakaran, specially for RIR
India is now looked upon as an inspiration for Buryats looking to return to being practising Buddhists. Buryat students of Buddhism study at Tibetan monastic universities and bring their knowledge back home.

Valenki: A Russian necessity

January 31, 2012 RIR
The iconic Russian felt boots, valenki, are very popular, and even essential in the countryside due to the country’s severe climate. Today many valenki are made in the villages of the Altai Region
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