Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Volga, Volga! Low-Water Crisis Raises Questions About Managing Russia's Main Artery

In the central Russian city of Ulyanovsk, bathers at a popular municipal beach must traipse more than 200 meters to reach the waters of the Kuibyshev Reservoir. Near Kazan, the capital of Russia's ...
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The government will finance measures to improve the health of rivers and reservoirs in the lower reaches of the Volga

In 2023-2024, the Volgograd Region, on co-financing terms, will receive additional funds for measures to improve rivers and reservoirs in the lower reaches of the Volga within the framework of the ...
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The volume of wastewater discharged into the Volga has been reduced by almost 700 million m3 per year since 2019

Since the launch in 2018 of the federal project "Improvement of the Volga", 69 sewage treatment plants have been built and modernized. Due to this, the volume of contaminated wastewater discharged ...
Foreign Affairs

Russia’s New Economic Divisions

AS told in previous numbers of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, [i] the Soviet regime has completely changed the political organization of Russia's vast territory. The program has been carried through with ethnic ...