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A magnificent sculpted golden comb made by a Greek sculptor is one of the great treasures of the Hermitage Museum ...

Russia, within its contemporary political boundaries, is connected to the northern branch of the Silk Roads, in close proximity to what is known as the “Eurasian steppe corridor”, stretching from Lake ...

Steppe previously managed to eliminate its dependence on imported seed supplies for crops such as sugar beet, confection and oilseed sunflower, chickpeas, flax, mustard and spring barley, and has ...

the radio crackled in the old Russian 4x4. The driver tried to steer ... It is a part of the operation to reintroduce these animals to the steppes of central Kazakhstan, where they disappeared ...