Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44

Soviets defeat Nazis

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Senior Belarusian energy officials held talks in Moscow this evening to seek an agreement on a new supply contract for Russian natural gas, hoping to avert a threatened New Year’s Day cut-off that could affect European deliveries, officials said.

THERE was a major upset in the final of the all-aged Ballyarthur Stakes at Fermoy and Grange yesterday when the Bill Toomey trained Carraignagour took the prize.

OWNER John Brennan, on the mark at Ballybrit with Cuan Na Grai in the Galway Hurdle and twice with Diego Garcia, completed a memorable week when the Willie Mullins-trained Man On The Nile ran away with the Mallow Hurdle at Cork yesterday.

Angry pensioners demanding that their social security benefits be restored staged a second day of protests in President Vladimir Putin’s home city, joining the call from protesters in other cities for him to resign.

Russia’s lower house of parliament ratified the Kyoto Protocol on combating global warming today, putting the sweeping environmental pact firmly on the road to realisation.