It was the early morning of 8 September 1514. A Muscovite army with tens of thousands of horsemen, commanded by Ivan ...

“Today is a good day,” says Ivan Rybaruk, a priest from the small village of Kryvorivnya, pointing at the sky with his finger. There is a rainbow in the sky. It was raining lightly on Christmas eve as ...

MOSCOW -- If you're a foreigner and you really want to annoy Mikhail Solomentsev, you might want to don some of your country's traditional clothing and head out to the balcony to grill some kebabs, ...

Once in a hundred years, snow falls in the Carpathians in summer. Once in a thousand years, the Carpathian fir trees speak human language. However, a Muscovite in the Carpathian village of Velyki ...

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