Russia’s archaeological sites can expect better protection

  The Russian government is considering measures to improve the protection and funding of high-profile archaeological sites. Prime Minister Putin told this to academics on Monday in a video conference from Novgorod the Great.

The sites in question include a cave in Bashkortostan with paleolithic petroglyphs in it, an 8th-century Arab fortress in Derbent in Dagestan  and the Ancient-Greek-and-Byzantine city of Phanagoria on the Taman Peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.