Addressing the challenges plaguing Russia’s public utilities sector, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin proposed a potential solution on Tuesday by advocating for the transfer of heating networks and power generation into state ownership. The statement comes in the wake of recent severe cold temperatures that led to substantial power disruptions in various Russian regions during the holiday... 

In the frigid town of Podolsk in the Moscow region, a dire scenario unfolds as more than 21,000 residents find themselves in the throes of life-threatening cold, with temperatures plummeting below a bone-chilling -20°C. The community grapples with an alarming heating crisis that has pushed citizens to the brink. Frustration and desperation reach a boiling point as locals, left without the essential... 

Doting father: Josef Stalin, pictured with his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, disowned his son Yakov in 1928 A Soviet archive has yielded up one of the last secrets of World War Two that dictator Josef Stalin took to his grave – the fact his son Yakov gave himself up to Nazi forces during the 1941 invasion of his country. The party line in Stalin’s Russia was always that Yakov Dzhugashvili,...