Russian Regional Newspapers

Comprehensive coverage of regional news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia.

Russian Regional Newspapers provides close-up coverage of developments throughout Russia’s regions. With nearly 90 active titles, the database includes newspapers from all seven Federal Districts of the Russian Federation, as well as newspapers focusing on local issues of Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The database represents such noteworthy regions as the troubled Northern Caucasus (Vesti Respubliki [Вести Республики] from Chechnya, Severnaia Osetiia [Северная Осетия] from Northern Osetiia-Alania, etc.), oil and gas rich Western Siberia (Tiumenskie izvestiia [Тюменские известия], etc.), the investment-friendly Volga region (Nizhegorodskie novosti [Нижегородские новости] from Nizhnii Novgorod, Volzhskaia kommuna [Волжская коммуна] from Samara, etc.), and many others. The selected newspapers have the largest circulation in their regions and are considered the most authoritative.