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Tracing History in Western Siberia
Siberian cities such as Khanty- Mansiysk and Novy Urengoy sound almost exotic, even to experienced travelers to Eastern Europe. But these thousands of sparsely populated kilometres […]
See MoreSiberian cities such as Khanty- Mansiysk and Novy Urengoy sound almost exotic, even to experienced travelers to Eastern Europe. But these thousands of sparsely populated kilometres […]
See MoreAfter our night trip to the former Gulag camps alongthe Salekhard-Igarka Railway, we had the chance to stop in Pangody. It’s a small town but […]
See MoreVisiting two former labour camps along the 501 Railroad, more commonly (together with Railroad 503) known as the Transpolar Mainline, Dead Road or Stalinbahn, was […]
See MoreEarly in the morning, the group took off from Khanti-Mansysk to visit an abandoned village, called Lorba. After about 3 hours drive along smaller roads […]
See MoreNights are short in Siberia. After a bus trip through infinite forests we arrived at Khanty-Mansiysk at 11 pm, but the sky reminded us rather […]
See MoreJuly 3, 2017. Heavy rain pours down on us as we leave our minibus in Tobolsk. 140 km north of the Trans-Siberian Railroad and the […]
See MoreLeonid Bershidsky, a Bloomberg columnist, this July provocatively stated that ‘Russia Has the Most Boring Election of 2016’, especially when compared to the immense spectacle […]
See MoreAt the end of 2011, the friendship between former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin manifested itself in the 1224 kilometre-long Nord […]
See MoreWhile Europe is shaken by a row of nerve-wrecking elections, in Russia, not many people seem to expect much from the upcoming Duma elections. Not […]
See MoreOn September 18th 2016, Russian citizens will elect 450 deputies to the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia – the State Duma. At […]
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