Section: The United Kingdom
Tragic tale behind the long-lost Victoria Cross found buried in mud by the Thames
The medal was one of 16 awarded at the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War in 1954, but its recipient, thought to be Private John Byrne, was tortuered by what he witnessed on the battlefield …read more Source:...
Medal awarded to a Crimean War soldier lost in the mud
Tobias Neto, from Putney, south west London, found the Victoria Cross which was one of 16 medals given to British soldiers after the Battle of Inkerman on November 5, 1854, on the banks of the Thames. …read more Source: Daily...
Close Relations review – illuminating but flawed documentary
Are the director’s own family the most reliable guides to the fallout from the uprising in Ukraine?Acclaimed Russian documentarian Vitaly Mansky turns his lens on his own family to explore the fallout from Ukraine’s Maidan uprising. Although he was born in Lviv, Ukraine, Mansky moved to Moscow and considers himself Russian. However,...
US PREPARES FOR WAR: Tanks OPEN FIRE towards Russia as troops line border
AMERICAN tanks have opened fire in the direction of Russia amid fears of all out war. …read more Source:...
How Donald Trump is viewed by Europe’s newspapers
Most see him as a buffoon and fear him making deals with Vladimir Putin. But Bild’s publisher, despite thinking him rude, sees virtue in his painful honesty Most newspapers across Europe predict that Donald Trump will be a reckless world leader, viewing him as a buffoon and fearing that he will undermine transatlantic relations and weaken...
Is Tim Barrow just the man for Brexit?
Britain’s new Permanent Representative to the EU, Tim Barrow ©Facundo Arrizabalaga/PA Wire/PA Images Before the start of 2017, few outside the UK’s diplomatic community would have heard of Tim Barrow. His appointment as Britain’s Permanent Representative (ambassador) to the European Union, following the public and acrimonious...
BBC reporter joins locals in icy river dip
The BBC’s Tom Burridge takes a dip in Kiev’s Dnipro frozen river to celebrate Epiphany. …read more Source:...
Sir Michael Fallon: Britain will stand alongside Ukraine
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Close Relations review – a family and a nation divided
Exploring how Russia’s involvement in Ukraine has affected his own family, Vitaly Mansky’s documentary shows the pain of loyalties testedVitaly Mansky’s gloomy, sombre and garrulous film is a portrait of his extended family and of the divided nation of Ukraine: it makes an intriguing companion piece to Sergei Loznitsa’s...
“By now, there was no way back for me”: the strange story of Bogdan Stashinsky
Serhii Plokhy’s The Man with the Poison Gun is a gripping, remarkable Cold War spy story. On the morning of 12 August 1961, a few hours before the supreme leader of East Germany, Walter Ulbricht, announced the sealing of the border between East and West Berlin, a funeral took place for a four-month-old boy at the Rohrbeck Evangelical...
