Long-distance train operator GW Travel is launching a £12.8 million luxury train on the trans-Siberian route – the world’s longest railway line. The Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express is a fully ...
From our generous window on The Vostok, a modern train traveling an ancient route, snapshots of a remote landscape are passing from left to right. Against a running backdrop of birch and pine, ...
I did not expect to be in Siberia for Donald Trump’s inauguration. Which is to say, I’d known for a few months that I’d be in Siberia on Jan. 20, 2017. I just thought I’d be missing Hillary Clinton’s ...
In the cramped train compartment, our knees brush against each other. I exchange a smile—my first in the two weeks since I’ve been in Russia—with a stranger across my seat. Russians are wary of ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Once considered the preserve of scruffy backpackers, hardy adventurers, and vodka swigging businessmen, a new train on Russia's Trans-Siberian route aims to lure wealthy tourists ...
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's spy agency staged two successive explosions on a railroad line in Siberia that serves as a key conduit for trade between Russia and China, Ukrainian media reported Friday.
The Trans-Siberian Railway, once the dream of travelers and a bridge between East and West, has been turned into a nightmare by gangs that rob, rape and murder passengers on what police describe as ...
An Orthodox priest rings a set of bells after baptizing a baby on board a train carriage that operates as a mobile church, bringing religion to remote parts of Russia. The Doctor Voino-Yasenetsky ...
On the shore of Lake Baikal, deep in eastern Siberia, one of the most ambitious feats of modern Russian rail engineering is nearing completion. The Baikalsky tunnel, carved through 7 km of mountain ...
The Doctor Voino-Yasenecky Saint Luka train serves as a free, mobile consultative and diagnostic medical center that carries medics and medical equipment yearly from the main regional city of ...