Two police officers in Kazakhstan's northern Aqmola region have been sentenced to three years in jail for torture. On November 8, a court in the region's Astrakhan district found the officers ...

Astrakhan Governor Igor Babushkin said in a statement: "Dear citizens, this morning the city was covered by a cloud of natural gas, which has a specific smell that appears after processing.

Two-humped camels race in an annual event at a hippodrome in the village of Tri Potoka in Astrakhan Region's Privolzhsky District. This in an ancient sport, which is very popular in Arab countries.

The leader of Toward God’s Kingdom was found guilty of forming an extremist group and inciting ethnic hatred in the Astrakhan district near Russia’s southern border with Georgia, according to ...

AK&M 05 July 2025 06:51 In October 2021, Rosprirodnadzor received an appeal from residents about violations of environmental legislation in the Astrakhan region. Specialists went to the site and found ...

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VOLGOGRAD, May 26 (Itar-Tass) — One more district in the Astrakhan Region – Ikryaninsky – imposed the state of emergency in connection with the locust invasion, Itar-Tass learnt on Saturday ...

Shein appealed to the Astrakhan District Court on April 16 for invalidating the mayoral election outcome. Bombs with power of 13 kilos of trotyle found in Russia’s Kabardino-Balkaria ...

In the course of the rebellion 47 members of the ruling party lost their lives, and in reprisal many more Astrakhan' workers were killed. For further details and background, see John Biggart, "The ...

The citadel at Astrakhan is encircled by a high, white-stone wall, still structurally intact, but crumbling in places, owing to age : in the masonry they show the marks of blows dealt in 1670 by ...