‘Crunching Ice Under My Feet’: In Russia’s Sakha, a Still-Unbuilt Bridge Is a Matter of Life and Death
As 2025 drew to a close, a group of people from Yakutsk, the capital of Russia’s republic of Sakha (Yakutia), braved temperatures of minus 40 degrees Celsius to journey to the local flagship newspaper’s offices. On Yakutsk Vecherniy’s doorsteps, they …