If the West doesn’t recall the 1936 Nazi Olympics when thinking about the FIFA World Cup competition to be held in Russia in 16 days, then when will it? Tata Gutmakher asks, adding that unfortunately it appears the West...
In 1787, Prince Grigory Potemkin erected special villages to impress his lover, Catherine the Great, on her trip to Crimea. Unlike real Russian villages, these were clean and bright and designed to give the impression that the people there...
The shelter is overcrowded; there are now 179 dogs, and new strays are systematically turned away. “This is an industrial city; homeless dogs find shelter in factories and construction sites. We feed and care for these animals; we...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...