Trading catwalks for spacewalks, a dangerous spa, 35 meters of George W., and other quirky news from around the regionby TOL staff The highly ambitious president of Russian Kalymkia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, told the Russian daily Moskovsky komsomoletsi> on 28 May that he has created plans to build a cosmodrome to beat all cosmodromes in his republic, RFE/RL reported. The tourism-boosting […]
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