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Sychuk always felt out of place in Russia. His parents never properly learned the language, instead speaking a Russified ...

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Russian forces control about 95 percent of what’s left of the city, which they aggressively shelled like much of Ukraine they have sought to control.

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In a moving Christmas broadcast, the King called for unity and neighbourly spirit amid global divisions, with a stirring ...

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O Little Town of Bethlehem began life as an American poem, written by a cleric in Philadelphia in 1868. But the tune now ...

Although the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir formed less than a century ago, with a verifiable context and history, writers and listeners still treat the ensemble’s music with the same ...