LUCKNOW: Shut for much-needed restoration in August 2022, the iconic Rumi Darwaza in the Old City, a must-see for visitors to Lucknow, was opened to the public on Thursday, nearly two years after it was shut and one and a half years after its conservation work was started by the Archeological Survey of India. Aftab Hussain, superintending officer, Archeological Survey …
Ukraine needs any edge it can get to repel Russia from its territory. “I feel that we are bringing our country closer to victory,” said Anatolli Kuzmin, the factory’s 64-year-old owner, who used to make farm equipment and fled his home in southern Ukraine after Russia invaded in 2022. Yet like many aspects of Ukraine’s war apparatus, its defense sector …
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Before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Olha Bihar was a lawyer working for a firm in Kyiv while completing her PhD in tax law. Olha's unit spent five months on the front lines of the Battle of Bakhmut, fighting Russian forces in one of the bloodiest battles of the 21st century. "In Bakhmut you understand that your life and all …
