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GHOST TOWNS IN RUSSIA
This 19th-century Russian town 420 kilometers north of Moscow was submerged underwater by a massive Soviet reservoirAmid the reservoir development in the 1940s, the remote Russian city of Vesyegonsk grappled with significant flooding, with two-thirds of i...- 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 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...
- A look at some of the deadliest fires in bars, nightclubs and music venuesA Bangkok music bar fire killed at least thirty people and injured dozens. This incident prompts investigations into the cause and contribu...
- 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...
- Kafka, chaos and the "Master of Apocalypse": The world of Laszlo KrasznahorkaiLaszlo Krasznahorkai, the 71-year-old Hungarian novelist, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his visionary and compelling o...
- In US-China AI contest, the race is on to deploy killer robotsOne is pricey and slow: For a new force of up to 13 nuclear-powered attack submarines, the Australian taxpayer will fork out an average of ...
- In U.S.-China AI contest, the race is on to deploy killer robotsThe Australian Navy is investing in two different submarine technologies to counter the rising power of China. One approach involves buildi...
- Taking the high road: India infrastructure drive counters ChinaThe Asian giants fought a war in 1962 over their 3,500-kilometre (2,200-mile) divide, now known as the Line of Actual Control, and it remai...
- New drone footage shows scale of Bakhmut's destructionNew video footage of Bakhmut shot from the air with a drone for The Associated Press shows how the longest battle of the year-long Russian ...
- Ukraine fighting intensifies as Russia seeks to recapture lost citiesThe General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said in its morning report that Russia forces were attacking populated areas on the right bank ...
- Ukrainians' resilience persists despite new Russian barrageThe response to Russia's new wave of attacks was to get back to work, stroll in the warm autumn sun and tend to final harvests from summer ...
- Allies vow tougher stance on Russia but are running short of new tacticsAs the allied leaders met in Brussels, the Ukrainian military, entering the second week of a counteroffensive, claimed Thursday to have des...
- Russia-Ukraine war: 'Hellscape' in Mariupol where 100,000 trappedVolodymyr Zelensky said more than 7,000 people had escaped in the last 24 hours alone, but one group travelling along an agreed humanitaria...
- Ukraine soldiers battle Russian troops in capitalPre-dawn blasts in Kyiv set off a second day of violence after Russian President Vladimir Putin defied Western warnings to unleash a full-s...
- From Morjim to Fort Kochi, hubs of foreign travellers have become ghost townsWith foreign tourist visas and charter flights finally getting the government’s go-ahead, Cardoza is hopeful that Morjim’s foreign visitors...
- Life and times of the man after whom Galwan river is namedThe valley, in news because of the latest India-China standoff, was in the spotlight during the 1962 war as well.
- Try dark tourism: Chernobyl, Pompeii and other disaster zones that are drawing visitorsAdd these top five destinations to your bucket list.
- Poland clears site of rumored Nazi ghost train for military to investigatePoland has asked its army to investigate the site where amateur treasure hunters said they found "irrefutable proof" of a Nazi ghost train ...
- Not right time for protectionism or ending stimulus, PM tells westPrime Minister Manmohan Singh listed out a series of measures that he felt would ensure the quickest possible return to normalcy in the glo...
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