Los Angeles Times

Russian shelling hits landmark Ukrainian church where Potemkin was once buried

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian shelling damaged a landmark church Thursday in the Ukrainian city of Kherson that until last year held the remains of Prince Grigory Potemkin, an 18th century Russian military ...
Altoona Mirror

Russian shelling hits landmark church

Svitlana Sushko, 62, sobs while visiting the grave of her youngest son, a Ukrainian soldier who was killed last year in the war against Russia, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The Associated Press KYIV ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Russian shelling hits a landmark church in the Ukrainian city of Kherson

KYIV, UkraineKYIV, Ukraine — Russian shelling damaged a landmark church Thursday in the Ukrainian city of Kherson that until last year held the remains of Prince Grigory Potemkin, an 18th-century ...
The Hill

Putin, in the footsteps of Potemkin, is trying to recreate the Russian Empire

In May 2016, Vladimir Putin announced that he was seizing personal control of the Russian State Archive (RosArkhiv), formally known as the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation. He removed ...
Washington Times

Letter to the editor: Biden’s Potemkin villages

In 1787, Russian nobleman Grigory Potemkin erected phony, portable settlements along the banks of the Dnieper River to impress the Russian Empress Catherine II and her foreign guests as Catherine ...
Arizona Daily Star

Letter: The Potemkin President meets The American Public for the first time - almost.

For those of you not familiar with the term – The phrase “Potemkin Village” was originally used to describe a fake portable village – built only to impress. According to the story – Grigory Potemkin ...
Courthouse News Service

Russian shelling hits a landmark church in the Ukrainian city of Kherson

Svitlana Sushko, 62, sobs on Aug. 3, 2023, while visiting the grave in Kyiv of her youngest son, a Ukrainian soldier who was killed in 2022 in the war against Russia. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) KYIV, ...