A provincial governor seeks to honor villages that deployed many soldiers to the war in Ukraine with a prestigious title first bestowed on cities that were major World War II battlefields.
Amid the majestic volcanoes and enchanted emerald forests of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s remote Far East, near Alaska, both residents and visitors describe the Indigenous hamlet of Sedanka as remarkably squalid.
Its housing stock, leftover fr... [1983 chars]