The Coptic name of the town, 'Pekha -Issous', (vernacularized to Lysous) means, 'the foot of Jesus'; for the Holy Child's foot-print was marked, here, in bas-relief on a rock. The rock was preserved, ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested prominent anti-war journalist Sasha Alexandrova on charges of “terrorist propaganda,” media in the republic of Sakha (Yakutia) reported Friday, citing ...

From the Baikal Mountains more than 2,600 miles east of Moscow, the Lena flows through the taiga (mostly coniferous forest) of the Siberian Plateau into the boggy lowlands and tundra of the Sakha ...

MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. More than 2,500 polling places opened at 08:00 local time (02:00 Moscow time) in the Sakha (Yakutia), Trans-Baikal and Amur Regions. "As many as 937 permanent and five ...