Saturday, August 2, 2014

A tale or two from Russia

According to today's Berlin papers, the bridge between Crimea and the Russian mainland, which was announced some months back by Vladimir Putin, is to get the go ahead.

But it will be built with the help of Russian prisoners.

Today's papers also carry the news that in east Ukraine pro-Russian separatists have carried out executions among its fighters so as to protect 'discipline'.


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