TRAVEL EDITOR'S NOTE: Ray Metzger of Byron writes of a recent trip to Russian Siberia. In 1991 two priests, the Rev. Myron Effrig and the Rev. Dan Mauer, traveled to Vladivostok, Russia, the ...
DOMNA, Russia -- Besides the military, there aren't many opportunities in this poor settlement some 35 kilometers southwest of Chita, the administrative center of the southern Siberian region of ...
Russia's population has been falling for 16 straight years. The population decline is most dramatic in rural Russia, where villages have withered away from poverty and neglect. But a region in Western ...