Riza Izetov, a Crimean Tatar human rights activist sentenced by a Russian court to 19 years in prison, has reported harsh ...
That’s how he ended up in Yakutsk, Russia. The capital city of the vast (1.2 million square miles) Siberian region known as the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk is widely identified as the world’s ...
Lawmakers in Yakutsk, a city in Russia’s Far East, have voted to abolish direct mayoral elections, the news outlet 14.ru reported. Of the 29 members of the Yakutsk City Duma, 25 attended the session.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on Monday in the country’s eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk to meet with students and faculty of a local university and visit the construction site of a ...