In his apartment in Kyiv, businessman Vladimir Konochera recalls the difficult days of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, with references to the current pandemic. He experienced the terrifying accident as a KGB employee and describes how the leadership of the then Soviet Union tried to smother the even
The fall of kyiv dates from 1240 with the growing Mongol domination. Due to its impractical succession system, Kyiv is fragmented and, therefore, decentralized. Its power is then not strong enough to resist the invasion and kyiv can no longer defend itself against the nomads of the steppe. Its weake
The other day we saw here the adventures of Felix Graf von Luckner, a German sailor with a bizarre life who practiced privateering aboard a sailboat during the First World War. Today we are going to tell another no less eventful story that also happened during that war and, likewise, began aboard a
The sarcophagi unearthed in wells in Saqqara present, despite their 2,500 years, a perfect state of preservation • AFP / KHALED DESOUKI Egyptian archaeologists descend, hanging from a rope, into these narrow burial shafts, measuring up to 12 m deep. They have just discovered in one of them, on t