Hanoi, a city of a hundred lakes, has an island in the centre called Banana Island. No marks for guessing what it grows!

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When the Indian prime minister visited the Soviet Union in 1985, he spent some time in smaller Soviet republics.

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No Russian reading it (including Stalin ... He chose the bright red in the Swastika (which he personally designed) precisely to match the red in the Hammer and Sickle. Where the communists used bands ...

At the time I was doing "jobs" with another BfSS member, and wherever we went, my "Tag" that I spray-painted in red at the scene, was a Russian "Hammer and Sickle". Being left handed I did it the ...

Kyiv and Moscow have had separate discussions with Washington about a temporary pause on strikes on energy sites and a cease-fire in the Black Sea. By Ivan Nechepurenko and Constant Méheut Ivan ...

Further contacts between U.S. and Russian officials on achieving a proposed ceasefire in Ukraine are likely to follow a round ...

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The three days of meetings — which did not include direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations — are part of an attempt to hammer out details on a partial pause in the 3-year-old war in Ukraine.

Further contacts between US and Russian officials on achieving a proposed ceasefire in Ukraine are likely to follow a round of talks on Monday, a Kremlin official said on Tuesday, but no concrete ...