Pskov, Russia News

A chronology of key events: 1237-40 - Mongols invade Russia, destroying all of its main cities except Novgorod and Pskov; Tatars establish the empire of the Golden Horde in southern Russia.

XIII Century is a 3D RTS that combines Risk-style strategy with real-time tactical action, immersing you in a medieval world of knights, nomads, courageous deeds and internal wars.

Administrators at Russiaa TMs border Pechory area have launched a crackdown on officials who illegally hold Estonian passports in secret.

Monday, 16 November 2009, 2:29 pm Press Release: International Aids Society Global Fund Extension of HIV Prevention Programmes for People at High Risk for HIV in Russia Will Save Thousands of Young Lives International AIDS Society and International Harm Reduction Association Call on Russian Government to Simultaneously Expand Access to HIV ...

Officials in the northwestern Russian city of Pskov have closed all schools and universities due to a flu outbreak, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.

The town of Pechory was founded as a posad near a famous Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery in the 16th century and soon developed into an important trading place.

The works of Russian pastellist Lilia Momotova will be on exhibit at WVTF in Roanoke from Nov 2 -Nov 30.

SCAREMONGERING is where defence-planning and politics overlap. Big military exercises in western Russia and Belarus, which finished earlier this month, were based on the following improbable scenario: ethnic Poles in western Belarus rise up and "terrorists" from Lithuania attack the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

Dr. Kurt Fleckenstein's installation 'Red Cube of Freedom' delivers a strong political message, according to the German-born artist.