Norilsk, Russia, the world's most depressing city, faces extreme cold, isolation, heavy pollution, and a tragic Gulag history, making life harsh for its 175,000 residents.

Norilsk is said to be the coldest inhabited city on the face of the earth, and has been historically quite prosperous due to ...

Deep in the Arctic Circle lies Norilsk, a Russian city so harsh and unwelcoming that tourists are banned from visiting. Known ...

This city was built around a former prison where thousand of people died, and the life expectancy is 10 years lower than the ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump talk during a bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque To bring Russia to the ...

Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury Department in Washington, argued ardently that radical free-market reforms were the only path for post-Soviet Russia and that democracy ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dutch bank ING has agreed to sell its Russian business to a Moscow-based company, taking a €700mn hit to ...

Russian prosecutors are seeking to recover nearly $33-million of funds that they say were allocated for the defence of the western Kursk region, invaded by Ukraine last year, but stolen instead by ...

As reserves of armored vehicles run out amid catastrophic losses in Ukraine and western Russia, the Russian military is normalizing assaults in civilian cars. And not just any civilian cars ...

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The Council today renewed the EU restrictive measures in view of the Russian Federation’s continuing actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine for a further 6 months, until 31 July 2025. These ...