The U.S. is providingsubsidies to keep some existing nuclear plants open,selling some large nuclear reactors to eastern Europe. But the country pinning much of its ambition on scaling up the market forsmall modular and advanced reactortechnology and building theassociated fuel enrichment capacit...
Up until the 19th century, chess players from different countries might have still used different pieces (in Russia, chess sets still had elephants) or played according to local "house rules," but the game became standardized when the first international chess competitions were held. In the 1850...
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Within a week, Ukraine had lost Avdiivka, the city in the Donetsk region that it had been defending since long before Russia’s full-scale invasion. Nearly surrounded and vastly outnumbered, the Ukrainians made the decision to withdraw and avoid the same kind of deadly siege soldiers experienc...
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The Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic aren't included on this list anymore, after theyagreed to merge into Russiain late 2022 (much to the dismay of Ukraine, which most of the world still considers them to be part of). ...
Yandex had nabbed a bigger share of the Russian search market than Google and offered a suite of90 servicesthat dominate much of Russia’s digital world. Among them were its lucrative content platform Zen and news aggregation platform Yandex News, where many Russians start the day online. But ...
From 1862, tea was imported to Russia by sea, as the Chinese opened seaports and the Suez Canal. Besides, it was much more profitable to deliver the goods through Odessa, bypassing Asia. And, with it, the exchange of tea in Kyakhta was halved. The customs office was transferred to Irku...
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The family settled in Kreminna, a town just northwest of Severodonetsk in the neighboring Luhansk region. They had just about got used to living there when Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. “We decided to go to Dnipro because it is close to our home,” she said....