The Russian government has unleashed a wave of repression against L.G.B.T.Q. people, with the police raiding gay night clubs ...

Riza Izetov, a Crimean Tatar human rights activist sentenced by a Russian court to 19 years in prison, has reported harsh detention conditions in the Yakutsk ... About 15 people are serving ...

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 ...

Yakutia’s 20 companies in mining and oil-and-gas sectors said they would offer work in shifts to people from agricultural districts YAKUTSK, January 22. /TASS/. Yakutia’s authorities within ...

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 ...