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ABANDONED SOVIET TOWNS
A Latvian astronomer and his wife drove 190 miles to a secret Soviet ghost town in 1994; found a 600-ton telescope the Russians had poured acid on - adapted the Cold War machine built to spy on the West and listen to the starsAfter the retreat of Russian forces from Latvia, a concealed Soviet-era radio telescope came to light. Astronomer Juris Zhagars dedicated h...- Gulag prisoners built this town during WW2, it grew into a USSR mining centre of over 10,000 people; before the end of the Soviet era brought its decline in 1996Once a vibrant Soviet town dedicated to coal mining during World War II, Kadykchan was home to a lively community complete with schools and...
- In 1973, a plane crash killed 14 people and a once idyllic French settlement slowly turned into a ghost town near one of the most populous part of EuropeGoussainville-Vieux Pays, near Paris, became a ghost town due to a 1973 aircraft disaster and airport expansion. The devastating crash kill...
- In 1991, the Soviets abandoned anthrax island, a bioweapon facility which still has over 90% chance of killing people decades after its creationVozrozhdeniye Island served as a Soviet biological weapons testing site for decades. Weaponized anthrax spores left behind remain a dangero...
- Chernobyl, 40 years since disaster: five things to knowUkraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant -- the worst civilian nuclear disaster i...
- An Alaska town is now key to Trump's global ambitionsNome, Alaska, a remote Arctic town, is set to become the U.S.'s first deepwater Arctic port, a $548 million expansion aiming to boost trade...
- Donald Trump says Volodymyr Zelenskiy wants Democrats to win US electionDonald Trump claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wants the Democrats to win the 2024 U.S. election. Trump criticized U.S. ...
- Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Ukraine closer to end of war with RussiaUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy believes his country is nearing the end of the war with Russia. He emphasized the importance of con...
- It's hot to travel to blisteringly cold spotsLast year in August, we travelled to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, where during the summer ...
- Deception and trickery are the other weapons in the Ukraine warOn the Russian side, Gen. Sergei Surovikin has been projecting an air of gloom and doom, saying last month, "the situation in Kherson is te...
- Ukraine seeks to extend shipping safe passage deal beyond grainThe July 22 deal marked a rare diplomatic breakthrough as war rages in eastern Ukraine, with Kyiv trying to rebuild its shattered economy a...
- Russia resumes gas flow to Germany with cutback; 3 killed in Kharkiv market shellingThe resumption of gas flows via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany ended a nerve-jangling 10 days for Europe in which politicians expres...
- Ukraine's Zelensky accuses Russia of 'terror' as missiles rain downRockets struck residential properties in Solviansk in the heart of the embattled Donbas region, killing a woman in her garden and wounding ...
- Ukraine hits Russian targets in Kherson as fighting ragesRussian President Vladimir Putin meanwhile compared his current actions to Peter the Great's against Sweden 300 years ago, saying the tsar ...
- US vows to prevent any Russian invasion of UkraineMoscow seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and has since backed separatists fighting Kiev in the east of the country. The conflict has left ...
- Abandoned plant and wasteland: Ukraine eyes UNESCO World Heritage tag for ChernobylOn April 26, the former Soviet republic marks the 35th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, when a reactor at the plant, loc...
- From Ryugyong Hotel to Jeddah Tower, mega-structures which never rose to the occasionThe Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea is a hulking, gloomy spectacle on Pyongyang’s skyline.
- Why a ride on Trans-Siberian Express, without talking for 50 hours, is worth an experienceThe Soviet star on government buildings looms but it is just as common to see the Imperial double-headed eagle with the crown on newer gove...
- Great architecture, sweeping vistas make Prague a wonderlandThe distinct landscape of Prague (Praha) is visible even as we cross the border from Austria into the Czech Republic by the Eurocity train.
- Russia's space city is frozen in time, but launching rocketsNowadays Baikonur embraces the world, from wealthy space tourists to the world’s first Malaysian cosmonaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, who bl...
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