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April 6, 2021 Courtesy of Ralph Snyderman The bedtime stories my father told me in our cramped apartment in the gritty Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn sketched a magical, mythical place. The Snyderman family house, just outside of Pechera in southern Ukraine, was a simple one, with goats often grazing on its grass roof. My father’s descriptions of the snow glistening in the air and the frosty breath of the horse were as vivid to me as Tolstoy’s descriptions of sleigh rides in “War and Pea...

This coming Monday, the partnership between the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, known as the Visegrád Group will celebrate 30 years of existence. The V4, as the group is commonly referred to, reached the goals it originally set out achieve by the mid-2000s, but its member states have since continued to work together, recognising that there is value in unity within the European Union’s framework. The formation of the Visegrád Group In 1335 the kings of Bohemia, Hungary and Pola...

Fort No.5 has been renovated thanks to the project of the Union State of Belarus and Russia “Overhaul, restoration and museumization of the structures of Brest Fortress."