Semyonkovo: traditional architecture of the Vologda region
May 12, 2012 William Brumfield
Vologda region has many towns and villages with rich traditions of vernacular architecture associated with a free peasantry. To preserve and propagate this heritage, the Semyonkovo open-air museum was opened in 1992
Is Russia's Far East overcrowded by Chinese immigrants?
April 28, 2012 Artem Zagorodnov
One of the myths in Moscow is that Russia’s Far East is overrun with Chinese immigrants. Sergei Pushkarev, the former head of the Vladivostok regional branch of the Federal Migration Service talked to RBTH why this myth persists in the Far East
As South Ossetia votes, an election controversy
March 24, 2012 Anna Nemtsova, special to Russia Beyond the Headlines
There was joy when Alla Dzhioyeva was elected president of this independent republic that broke from Georgia after the 2008 war. But the result was overturned and she says she is a prisoner in her hospital bed
Business goes where the rules are clear
March 16, 2012 Artem Zagorodnov, reporting from Vladivostok
President Dmitry Medvedev sacked of Primorye Governor Sergei Darkin just months before the upcoming APEC summit in Vladivostok. As his successor, Medvedev nominated 44-year-old Vladimir Miklushevsky, rector of the Far Eastern Federal University
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The factory without a warehouse
March 15, 2012 Artem Zagorodnov, reporting from Vladivostok
Car giant Sollers shows how to set up a profitable automobile factory in Russia’s Far East
