A 1,300 year-old island in Siberia shocked Vladimir Putin “I have never seen anything like it…”
An ancient fortress called Por-Bajin–or Por-Bazhyn, Por-Bazhyng—has historians and Putin—among many others—completely baffled. No one is quite sure why the mystifying, 1,300-year-old fortress was built on a distant Siberian island, nor why it was abandoned. Experts have mixed views. Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the...