Russian explorers have "claimed" the Arctic's energy riches by planting the country's flag 14,000ft beneath the North Pole. A mechanical arm dropped a rustproof titanium banner from a three-man ...
On 24 June, Smolensk Mayor Andrei Borisov wrote on his VKontakte social media profile that “there should be no Polish flags on Russian monuments”, announcing at the same time the removal of the Polish ...
The Russian and the Polish flags were flying at the Katyn memorial, erected in memory of the 25,000 Poles, mostly army officers deemed anti-communist, massacred by the Soviet Union's political police ...