President Vladimir Putin has called for the liquidation of Russia's disastrously substandard housing at least seven times in the past 15 years. Yet more than 1 million Russians still live in ...

SaddleBrooke Freethinkers is proud to have Doctor Anastasiia Gordiienko of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona speak on “The Underworld Song in Russia: From the Slums to the ...

Saratov, in central Russia, is considered the cradle of the Russian gas industry. But despite the city's wealth in resources, some locals still live in barracks built more than 70 years by German ...

The Russian president grew up in a bedsit on the 'brutal', rat infested streets St Petersburg, then called Leningrad, ... How a thug from the slums became Russia's most powerful man ...