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During the early days Operation Barbarossa, Army Group Centre’s rapid advance surrounded hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers in the Białystok-Minsk area. What ensued was a catastrophic defeat for the Soviet defenders

Formerly the Prussian stronghold of Königsberg, since 1945 this region has been a Soviet, then Russian, foothold in Eastern Europe

IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re

We will all remember where we were when we first heard the news, when it started trickling through that something had happened on London’s transport network. Initially, there were reports of explosion

Twenty years on, Closer speaks to Sajda Mughal about that fateful day