Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’ in ‘Culture’

Russian demographer demands end to online divorces

Independent News Roundup • Culture • 15 Mar 2026

The state should work to save marriages, instead of simplifying their termination, Natalya Moskvitina has said · A young woman looks at the stand of Gosuslugi at an exhibition in Moscow. © Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev · Russians currently have the option of filing for divorce online. However, Natalya Moskvitina, the deputy head of the Public Chamber’s Demography Commission, insists that breaking up should be harder to do. ·…

World's tallest church is practically complete after 144 years under construction

Independent News Roundup • Culture • 26 Feb 2026

By Abhimanyu Ghoshal · Almost a century and a half after construction began on La Sagrada Familia, the exterior structure of the tallest church in the world was finally completed last Friday in Barcelona, Spain. · The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, as it's officially named and the only way I refer to it in casual conversation, has now had its tallest tower, the tower of Jesus Christ, reach its maximum height. It's…

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