Most of the 60,000 plus people in Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia, generally believe that the central government has long ignored local development. Its antiquated airport is plagued ...

Irkutsk is one of the largest cities in Siberia, located on the banks of the Angara River. Founded in 1661 as an stockaded town, Irkutsk became an important center of trade and cultural life in ...

The 2021 fire season was Russia’s largest ever, with 18.8 million hectares of forest destroyed, according to Greenpeace Russia - about two times the size of the island of Ireland.

Spurting hot steam resulting from the burst of a pipe delivering central heating water has injured five people with scalding injuries, at least two of which were hospitalized as steam engulfed a ...

‘Kompromat’ Review: Escape From Siberia. In this thriller, ... (Gilles Lellouche) works at a French cultural institution in Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Russian Siberia.