President Putin has hinted at peace talks as the economy fails, people flee cities and toxic ‘oil rains’ fall. Kyiv, Ukraine – For centuries, the Russian phrase “behind the Urals Mountains” meant “safe from a foreign invasion”. During the Napoleonic incursion of 1812 or the Nazi German assault in 1941, anywhere behind the mountain range that divides Russia’s ... [6914 chars]
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