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☆ Russia’s ‘August curse’ sees war come home
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Matthew Chance | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Moscow CNN —In years past, the month of August was often greeted in Russia with a degree of caution, even alarm. Russians spoke in whispered tones of their “August curse” to explain the unusually high number of deadly accidents, terrorist attacks, or outbreaks of war. For a long time now that curse seemed to have been lifted and almost forgotten, reducing the month to just another hot summer interlude. In the Black Sea, Russia’s military and commercial fleets have come under attack from Ukrainian naval drones this month, threatening Russian supply and trade routes. There has been a strict crackdown on dissent in Russia, particularly around criticisms of the war in Ukraine.

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☆ Video captures mushroom cloud towering over a town near Moscow after a massive explosion rocked a Russian factory
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An explosion erupted at a warehouse near the Russian capital of Moscow on Wednesday. The blast at the Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant left dozens of people injured, reports said. The governor of the Moscow region said the warehouse was being used to store fireworks. Dramatic videos that circulated on social media captured the moments immediately after the blast at the Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant in Sergiev Posad and showed a massive mushroom cloud looming over the area. According to The Moscow Times, the factory has produced things like night-vision devices and binoculars for the Russian security forces.

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☆ Video footage shows the moment of a massive explosion at a factory near Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Robert Leslie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

A blast shook the Russian town of Sergiev Posad on Wednesday, injuring at least 45 people, according to local authorities. The explosion occurred at a factory 50 kilometers northeast of Moscow that produces optical equipment for industry and healthcare, as well as for Russian security forces. The Russian state news agency TASS reported that the explosion happened in a warehouse containing pyrotechnic equipment. According to TASS, local emergency services do not believe the incident was the result of a Ukrainian attack. Moscow has been hit in recent months with a number of drone attacks, which Russia has blamed on Ukraine.

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☆ Blast at plant near Moscow injures at least 25, Russian state media reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Uliana Pavlova | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —At least 25 people were injured in an explosion at an industrial plant northeast of Moscow, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported Wednesday. The blast took place in the area of the boiler room at Zagorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant, in the town of Sergiev Posad, state news agency TASS reported. The plant is a developer and manufacturer for optical and optoelectronic devices for the Russian military, law enforcement agencies, industry and healthcare. The source of the detonation was a pyrotechnics warehouse rented by a third company on the site of the plant, RIA Novosti said, citing local authorities. Two of the people injured were hospitalized, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said, reported RIA Novosti.

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☆ Russian troops still build battlefield defenses like they did in World War II, and it's one of their rare successes in Ukraine, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Russian troops have spent the past several months constructing intricate fortifications in Ukraine. Ukrainian troops now have the tough task of fighting their way through those trenches and barriers. Current Russian fortification doctrine has seen "little methodological change" since the Cold War, according to the RUSI report. BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty ImagesClearing minefields is difficult because Russian mines have multiple triggers and anti-tampering devices. In addition, Russia did not sign the 1997 Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel mines, which has allowed its forces to "freely utilize victim-initiated" anti-personnel mines, RUSI said.

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[1/2] A security guard stands next to the Trinity icon at the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius in the town of Sergiyev Posad, Russia, July 18, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File PhotoMay 27 (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday dismissed his expert on art and restoration for obstructing the transfer of a historic 15th-century Trinity icon to the Church from a Moscow museum. On Saturday, Patriarch Kirill decreed that Kalinin be dismissed from his post "in connection with the obstruction of bringing the icon" to Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Kalinin was also banned from the priesthood, according to the note published on the Russian Orthodox Church's website. Patriarch Kirill said last year that those who died fighting in Ukraine would be purged of their sins.

☆ 'Firefall' lights up Yosemite
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Dave Lucas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

The Kovalyov brothers - Stepan, 80, and Volodymyr, 77 - and their wives have decided to stay in the isolated farming village of Posad-Pokrovske in southern Ukraine to live out their days in the place they know best.

☆ Inside Super Nintendo World in California
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Dave Lucas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Nikki Haley launches presidential bid
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Dave Lucas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Elderly brothers eke out life among ruins of Ukraine war
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Jillian Kumagai | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Tetiana Kovalyova, 76, lights a candle next to her husband Volodymyr and her granddaughter Svetlana, 21, inside the last room of their house that still has a roof in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, Ukraine, January 30, 2023. Tens of thousands of...moreTetiana Kovalyova, 76, lights a candle next to her husband Volodymyr and her granddaughter Svetlana, 21, inside the last room of their house that still has a roof in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, Ukraine, January 30, 2023. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians face similar challenges as Europe's biggest conflict since World War II approaches its second year. Many fled towns and villages close to the frontlines when war raged around them, although some, the elderly among them, refused to leave. REUTERS/Nacho DoceClose

A total of 50 rockets fell in the Kherson region, including on military targets. Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty ImagesThe Kremlin dismissed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 10-point so-called peace plan, saying proposals to end the conflict must take into account what it claims are “today’s realities” of four Ukrainian regions having joined Russia. In September Russia annexed the four regions of Ukraine after the occupied areas held sham votes, which were denounced by Kyiv and the West. We are entering the next year and must retain a common understanding of our national goals,” the statement read. Otherwise, the issue will be decided by the Russian army.”Zelenskyy has said his country will never relinquish land.

☆ Ukrainians brave return to former frontline village after Russian retreat
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Anna Voitenko | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The ones that still have something to save, they save it," said 31-year-old returnee Liudmyla Hupalo. "The ones that have nothing to save and have no place to live, they don't come back," she told Reuters. There is some roof left above my house, but it is still scary to look at." "It was a nice and beautiful village," he later recalled, standing beside the charred remains of his tractor, blown up during the occupation. For his wife Oksana, the stove means progress of a sort, though a return to normality remains a distant prospect.

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