Moldova's lawmakers voted to set the next parliamentary elections for September 28 in a test for the country's fragile democracy caught between pro-European and pro-Russian forces. A total of 57 ...

KIEV, December 29. /TASS/. A statue of Russian Empress Catherine the Great, known as the Monument to the Founders of Odessa, has been dismantled in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, the Dumskaya local ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.