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Midsummer was celebrated at the Ukrainian-themed Kupala Festival at The Lake in Waterbeach on Sunday. The festival of fire, water, and nature centres around the summer solstice, and incorporates both ...
By October 1917, there were six women’s battalions in Russia, but only Bochkareva’s had the chance to see military action. July 8, 1917, The 1st Women’s Battalion saw battle near Smorgon ...
Arrested in 2010 at age 39, when one of her victims managed to flee, the married mother of two from Krasnoufimsk in ...
In Chukotka, a region in the Russian far east, women still speak about the displacement they experienced during the 1950s when many indigenous people were pushed to larger settlements with state ...
KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael ...
Vasya Lozhkin is one of modern Russia's underground art stars. He has not been nominated for prestigious art awards or exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery, but social networks are overwhelmed with ...
A new exhibition at the British Museum in London traces the stunning evolution of India's devotional art through 189 objects.
BRUSSELS — Democracy in the European Union is failing women, who are disproportionately targeted by online threats, less likely to be elected than in the past, and more reluctant to vote than they ...
More than three years into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian soldiers, who enjoy high salaries and social benefits, have become popular suitors for some low-income women. While married ...
But, unlike MI5, the service has never had a female Chief in its 116-year history. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “I am delighted to appoint Blaise Metreweli as the next Chief of MI6.