Europe
Gazprom hopes to make St. Petersburg a “vertical city”
Gazprom’s planned baroque Okhta Center has local residents and UNESCO concerned Monuments to Russia’s new power and wealth have been sprouting up and testing the ……Read More
Europe
Europe
T-shirts, jeans and sneakers
In Moscow, once a person enters a metro train, a shop or office he will be “scanned” with gazes After decades of wearing the same ……Read More
Europe
Marios Mariou, Rivolt Hoxha and Kemal Boumnijel jailed for drug trafficking in London, England
Three men who conspired to supply a substantial amount of cocaine were jailed yesterday (Monday 18 Oct) at Wood Green Crown Court for a total ……Read More
Europe
Three men arrested for the death of Jimmy Mubenga in London, England
Police investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Jimmy Mubenga in west London yesterday (Monday 18 October) arrested three men by appointment at a West ……Read More
Europe
Anniversary: Investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s memory lives on after her murder
The family left behind, four years later Ilya and Vera Politkovskaya carry the uneasy burden of being the adult children of Russia’s best-known murdered journalist. ……Read More
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Check, Mate in Russia
A Bloody Battle Between Two Russian Rivals, Fought in a Russian City, Has Reasserted Russia’s Reputation as the Home of Chess. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s reinstatement as ……Read More