But it is also the seat of the Catholic diocese of St ... Irkutsk. The lake was placed under the protection of Unesco as a World Heritage Site in 1996, and is one of the ‘Seven Wonders’ of ...

The 75th anniversary of the large hydroelectric power station commissioned by Stalin, still the second largest in Russia ... seat of the Catholic diocese of St Joseph, which serves the heir ...

But Ukraine’s army has been pushed back over the past year, outgunned and outmanned by Russia’s forces across the 1,000km (600-mile) front lines. Meanwhile, both sides continue to launch ...

He was healthy, beautiful and smart. He and my daughter made us happy every day". After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Yuliia had taken Sophiia to safety in the UK.

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These economic measures, first introduced in 2014, were significantly expanded since February 2022 in response to Russia’s unprovoked, unjustified and illegal military aggression against Ukraine. They ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Sunday claimed its troops had captured a strategically important town in eastern Ukraine as part of a grinding campaign to weaken Kyiv’s grip on the country’s ...

According to Ukrainian military analyst Andriy Ryzhchenko, Pokrovsk is an economic target for Russia. The Ukrainian army said Moscow’s units launched 38 attacks with artillery support at various ...

"Europe delivers: EU Foreign Ministers just agreed to extend again the sanctions on Russia," Kaja Kallas, the bloc's foreign policy chief, posted on social media. "This will continue to deprive ...

The EU renewed sanctions on Russia and called for unity to respond to Donald Trump's transactional approach. The US president's warning to Moscow to end the war or face more penalties was more in ...

The memorial in St Petersburg to 'Soviet civilians who fell ... a date with a double historical significance for Russia. On this day in 1944 Soviet forces broke the almost 900-day siege of Leningrad.