Tag: Moscow
'Dress like a cabbage': Surviving Yakutsk, the world's coldest city
Reuters
Temperatures have plunged to minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit) this week in Yakutsk during an abnormally long cold snap in the Siberian city known as the coldest on earth.
Morocco holds Croatia to goalless draw in World Cup
Reuters
Croatia, runners-up at the last World Cup, were held to a 0-0 draw by Morocco at the Al Bayt Stadium on Wednesday in their opening Group F match at the tournament in Qatar. The Croats, beaten by France in the 2018 final in Moscow, had the
Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, dies at 91
Reuters
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.