RUSSIA The Siberian city of Irkutsk, a 'Russia in miniature'

Celebrated the 75th anniversary of the large hydroelectric plant wanted by Stalin, which is still the second largest in Russia. Since the eighteenth century, here the Orthodox missionaries had started schools for the religious and cultural education of the Siberian peoples. But it is also the seat of the Catholic diocese of Saint Joseph at the service of the communities heirs of the Poles deported here after the anti-imperial uprisings of the 19…