Tens of thousands of Koreans were brought over to Sakhalin as conscripted labor by the Japanese during World War II to work on the part of the island that Tokyo controlled. Many of them never saw their homeland again.
With no end in sight to politically motivated repression back home, Belarusians all over the world have come together along with other kind souls to help their exiled compatriots who have fallen on hard times.
Russians who had been actively investing in Crimean properties after Moscow occupied the peninsula in 2014 abruptly stopped doing so following the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, with sales of residential real estate falling by 72 percent in just a year.
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SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine Following Moscow's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Ukrainian peninsula experienced a real estate boom, as many Russia