In Armenia's Second City, Russian Military Outpost With a Dark Past Faces a Precarious Future
In Armenia's Second City, Russian Military Outpost With a Dark Past Faces a Precarious Future
In Armenia's Second City, Russian Military Outpost With a Dark Past Faces a Precarious Future
In Armenia's Second City, Russian Military Outpost With a Dark Past Faces a Precarious Future
In Armenia's Second City, Russian Military Outpost With a Dark Past Faces a Precarious Future
In Armenia's Second City, Russian Military Outpost With a Dark Past Faces a Precarious Future

GYUMRI, Armenia — When Russia first set up a military base on the dusty hills overlooking what is now Armenia’s second-largest city, it marked the edge of the Tsarist empire.

Then, as now, the position was a strategic asset. On one side, the city of Gyumri, with its buildings made of black stone, extends across a vast plain. Just a few miles in the

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President Donald Trump proposed that the U.S. assume control of Ukraine's nuclear power plants to safeguard the country's energy infrastructure as part of a ceasefire plan during a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday.

Trump suggested the U.S. take operational control or even take over the ownership of the nuclear power

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Ukrainian drone strikes sparked a fire at a military airfield and wounded at least two people in Russia’s southern Saratov region, local authorities said Thursday.

“Due to a fire at the [Engels] airfield, residents of a nearby farming co-op are being evacuated for safety reasons,” Saratov region Governor Roman Busargin wrote on Telegram.

The

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Russia will require to change hundreds of foreign-made civil aircraft in the coming years as its fleet of Western airplanes reaches the end of its life expectancy, warned Sergei Chemezov, the head of state-owned defense corporation Rostec.At least 200 of the staying Western airplanes run by Russian providers-- cut off from maintenance and extra parts due t
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Russian bombardments of eastern Ukraine eliminated 2 people over night, local authorities stated Thursday, as Moscow launched a massive drone attack that wounded 10 and sparked fires numerous kilometers from the front line.Officials in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy and Kharkiv regions said Russia dropped more than three dozen move bombs on border
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Rescuers evacuated residents in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region after unseasonably warm weather caused river ice to rapidly melt, raising water levels and breaching a dam, emergency authorities said Wednesday.

“A temporary [dam] was washed away after the Minusa River overflowed due to sudden warming and rapid snowmelt,” Russia’s Emergency Situations Mi

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