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Uzbekistan’s rocky road to reform
Shavkat Mirziyoyev won Sunday's presidential poll in Uzbekistan to start another five years as head of Central Asia's most populous country. The incumbent has always been the big favorite to win the vote, and the only…
Russia, US release latest nuclear weapons tally as Moscow-NATO relationship crumbles
Russia and the United States released their latest nuclear weapons tally at a time when ties between Moscow and the US-led NATO military alliance were in freefall.The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday released its latest report on "the…
The failure of the 1956 Hungarian revolution – the Soviets blamed the West as Orbán does today
Sixty-five years ago Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian revolution. The Soviet Union launched a propaganda campaign blaming the West for the uprising and bloodshed. Howard Norton, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, reported from…
White House media tell Americans not to complain, but to lower expectations “like the Soviet…
The mainstream media, defending Biden's White House amid the president's polls, urged Americans to lower their expectations of daily living conditions instead of blaming the federal government for their new problems, the panel discussed on…
Left links of domestic spies
Oct 19, 2021 Left links of domestic spies
Big budget movies like "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "True lies" sparked the intrigue with the shock of someone discovering that their spouse or…
SR-71 pilot tells the story of a tense mission over the Barents Sea where he spotted a scrambled…
"I assumed the MiG-31 pilot would love nothing better than an opportunity to fire his missiles at an SR-71 Blackbird," Ed Yeilding, SR-71 Blackbird pilot.
âFlying straight towards…
China launches second crewed mission to build space station
JIUQUAN, China, October 16 (Reuters) - China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts - two men and a woman - to the central module of a future space station where they will live and work for six months, the longest orbit…
Calls intensify to end Wisconsin election review amid blunders by ex-judge in charge
The glaring errors became clear shortly after a former Wisconsin judge issued subpoenas earlier this month in a Republican review of the state's 2020 presidential election. Some of the requests referred to the wrong city. At least…
Christian Lange, Andrew Carnegie and the arc of internationalism – Carnegie Europe
The Nobel Peace Prize awarded last week to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, journalists from the Philippines and Russia respectively, was an important reminder of the vital role civic actors play in promoting international peace. It also…
The soybean curse: is Ukraine facing the same fate as the Amazon?
Protein Plan and Green DealThe reasons for the commission's plan are manifold. Soybeans were previously mainly used to produce vegetable oils, but their market value exploded when what was left after oil production began to be used as a…
The hydrogen moment has finally arrived
October 9, 2021HYDROGEN A controversial since the tragedy of the Hindenburg, a filled airship that caught fire in 1937. Boosters say gas is a low-carbon miracle that can power cars and homes. The hydrogen economy, they hope, will redraw…
Blinken delivers remarks on Babyn Yar commemoration
The United States is committed to taking action so that the Babyn Yar tragedy is not repeated.
âSo on this anniversary, we honor the memory of all who are lost in Babyn Yar, we recommit ourselves to…
Musician claims he was fired for “conservative” views on Black Lives Matter
A former member of the Quad-City Symphony Orchestra is suing the organization, claiming he was fired for expressing widespread conservative beliefs about the Black Lives Matter movement.
Yuri Grankin,…
Germany extends pensions to more Holocaust survivors
BERLIN (AP) - The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said on Wednesday that Germany had agreed to extend compensation to Jewish survivors who endured the siege of Leningrad during the Second…
Professor blames left-wing ‘outrage crowd’ for cancellation of MIT climate science…
A University of Chicago associate professor of geophysics spoke out against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Tuesday after the university canceled its invited lecture amid criticism from activist groups on campus.During…
10 times Marvel heroes betrayed their own values
Marvel heroes are some of the most complicated heroes in all of comics. It was their claim to fame when they were first…
The ruling party in ex-Soviet Georgia leads municipal elections
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - The ruling party in the former Georgian Soviet Republic leads the partial results in national municipal elections, but municipal elections in the country's four largest cities will likely need a second tower. The…
Engaging China Can Produce Real Victories For America (And Avoid War)
Kurt Campbell, the Biden administration's coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs at the National Security Council, recently declared that "The period which has been widely described as the engagement ended. This shift from a…
October 2, 2021 – Monterey Herald
Couple support Pacific Grove hotel construction project
We have been living in our residence just up the street from the American Tin Cannery in Pacific Grove since 1984, so we know the location very well and are writing to you to express…
Dancing for Stalin: the poignant story of a ballerina who survived the gulag
In 1938, at the height of Stalin's Great Terror, Russian ballet dancer Nina Anisimova was arrested by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. His alleged crime was to work as a Nazi spy. Although she could not be found…
Lithuania vs China: Baltic minnow challenges rising superpower
VILNIUS, Lithuania - It has never been a secret that China tightly controls what its people can read and write on their cell phones. But it came as a shock to Lithuanian officials when they discovered that a popular phone made in China…
Eight people convicted of deadly Siberian shopping mall fire
KEMEROVO, Russia - A Siberian court has found a group of eight people guilty of negligence in a 2018 fire in the city of Kemerovo that killed 60 people, including 37 children.Zavodskoi District Court found on September 30 the former…
EU, Britain urge Russia to commit to net zero CO2 emissions
BRUSSELS, Sept.29 (Reuters) - The European Union, Britain and Italy have urged Russia to commit to achieving net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 and to step up plans to fight it climate change before COP26.Russia, one of the biggest…
Fuel crisis: Russian media mocks UK and compares it to Soviet Russia, World News
The UK fuel crisis made headlines around the world. And the country is trolled, maybe on social media but certainly on Russian media. Presenters and journalists, at times smiling, compared it to Soviet Russia where the…
China hopes Biden turns non-Cold War statement into action
UNITED NATIONS (PA) - China's ambassador to the UN on Tuesday expressed hope that President Joe Biden will translate his statement that the United States does not intend to start a "new cold war" with China in action, saying it should…
As Congress veers left with entry of Kanhaiya Kumar, insiders urge center to correct course
Former JNU student union president and CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar is the latest in a long line of left-wing leaders to join Congress or form a strong association with the party.In fact, two-time Bihar MP Shakeel Ahmed and Rajya Sabha's…
Building a Career at Gap Inc .: Celebrating 30 Years with Boris Plotkin
In July, Boris Plotkin of the technology team at Gap Inc. celebrated his 30th birthday with the company. He began his career in July 1991 as a Production Support Analyst before taking on various positions…
Chinese Ambassador Qin Gang addresses strained bilateral ties
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September 26 in New York Ranger History: Canada Partners with Summit Series
What Happened September 26th in New York Ranger HistoryOn that date in 1972, Canada and the Soviet Union played in Game 7 of the Summit Series, with Canada winning 4-3 to tie the series at 3-3-1. The New York Rangers team made key…
Russia says it is in tune with US, China and Pakistan on Taliban | New
UNITED NATIONS (PA) - Russia, China, Pakistan and the United States are…
Our critics want the WPA to be a political dinosaur
Mr. Editor,The dust has settled on the current politico-ideological disposition of the PPP / C. The admission of former party secretaries-general Donald Ramotar and Clement Rohee that the PPP / C is no longer a Marxist / Leninist party…
September 25, 1981, forty years ago: the question of Kampuchea
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi strongly defended the decision to recognize the Heng Samrin government in Kampuchea. Speaking to a press conference in Jakarta, she recalled that her party had decided to recognize the Heng Samrin…
What Trump and Milley tell us about nuclear weapons
As all eyes were on the besieged Capitol Hill on Jan.6 and the United States slipped into an extreme domestic crisis, a secret crisis was swelling with China, according to new book revelations by reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.…
Azerbaijan files complaint for “ethnic cleansing” by Armenia
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Azerbaijan on Thursday lodged a complaint with the highest United Nations court accusing neighboring Armenia of a "policy of ethnic cleansing" against Azerbaijanis.The case was brought before the International…
Jane Collective Founder Says Texas Abortion Law Is Like East German Something
The founder of the Jane Collective criticized the Texas abortion law, saying it is emblematic of a "big brother state".
The Jane Collective was an…
Today in History: The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb in 1949 | Lifestyles
Today it's Wednesday September 22 the 265th day of 2021. There are 100 days left in the year. Fall arrives…
At UN, Biden calls for diplomacy, not conflict, but some are skeptical
President Biden, battling growing doubts from US allies about his commitment to work with them, used his first United Nations speech on Tuesday to call for "relentless diplomacy" on climate change, the pandemic and efforts to mitigate the…
Revolutionary rifle: the Mosin-Nagant was a game-changer for the Russian army
Between 1891 and 1973, over thirty-seven million M1891 three-line rifles were produced, making it one of the most manufactured firearms of the 20th century. Today, most gun enthusiasts and gun historians simply call him the Mosin-Nagant.…
EU powerless in the face of US sanctions against Russia and Iran (expert)
TEHRAN - A consultant in European and international affairs believes that the EU is absent and powerless in the face of unilateral US sanctions against other countries.
"The European Union's position is absent and powerless on US…
Peripeteia is an immersive simulation in which you play a “living military surplus” in…
The first thing I did when I left the bar was stack crates out of an alleyway, so yes, Peripeteia is an immersive sim. You play as an ex-cyborg soldier named Marie, reduced to odd jobs and mercenary jobs in a town where the main source…
The Journey of a Siberian Family to Israel and a Business Owner
It's quite a journey - nearly 6,400 kilometers - from Tomsk, Russia, one of the oldest cities in freezing Siberia, to sunny Netanya, and the cultural distance is just as vast.But in 2015, Arkady Mayofis, founder and owner of…
Lessons in a costly mishap
Michael adkins We should always think twice before insulting someone. My daughter's teenage grandson recently put his hand on my shoulder and said, âDaddy, you are bald. I replied, âGrandson, don't…
Senator Mitt Romney urges Americans to protect constitutional freedoms
Governor Spencer Cox moderates a discussion with Senator Mitt Romney on Friday, September 17. Romney spoke at the Hinckley Center and urged Americans to protect their constitutional freedoms against authoritarianism. (Addie…
The Biden Doctrine has not yet emerged. Beware of those who claim otherwise
Sep 18, 2021ANDREI GROMYKO. And that was during the Cold War, a period of relatively calm American political analysis. To what extent does Gromyko's observation seem more applicable to the first eight months of Joe Biden's presidency.…
Two NATO fighters accidentally flew behind the Iron Curtain 60 years ago today
While the American, British and French allies all maintained airports in the West Berlin enclave, these were closed to West German air traffic, military or otherwise, due to Four-Power regulations governing the divided city. Not…
United States cannot blame Pakistan for failure in Afghanistan – The Diplomat
AdvertisingAs the Taliban inflict a humiliating defeat on the United States after 20 years of nation-building efforts, with the rapid collapse of the Afghan government, some are desperate for a scapegoat. Since the announcement of the…
Adviser vows Biden will ‘crush’ governments opposed to vaccine mandate
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A senior White House adviser has escalated the war of words between the Biden administration and Republican…
The People of Lakewood Who Care About Schools, The Future of America, Part II – The Suburban…
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In the previous article, we read how the Clover Park School District proposes to inject race and racism into their curriculum, supposedly to improve students' academic performance. But why? We know the…
IMF accused of financing Belarusian dictator Lukashenka
Belarusian Kremlin-backed dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka has been hit with sanctions for his brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests. (Pavel Orlovsky / BelTA via REUTERS)…
DOE Joins Ukraine to Advance Energy Security, Clean Energy and Climate Solutions
WASHINGTON DC - Today, in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm and Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko signed a joint declaration…
As bombing death toll skyrockets, desperate Afghans seek a way out
Hundreds of Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban continued to crowd Kabul airport on Friday, even after one of the deadliest bombings in the country's history, as the death toll in the previous day's explosion was approaching 200 with…
Eager to change the story, the Biden team puts air travel in historical context
By comparison, the business in Kabul doesn't look exactly like the Berlin Airlift, in which food was flown to West Berlin, rather than people being evacuated.Update August 24, 2021, 8:07 PM ETBut as a model of humanitarian and political…
In Pakistan, we cultivated the Taliban, and then we turned against them. Now we can only hope they…
NOTtoo long ago, Pakistan and Afghanistan were called Af-Pak: two countries hugging each other, doomed to live and die together. You couldn't choose your neighbors, we were told. Geography, we were taught, was our destiny.There has been…
Tangled America: Why Another International Nuclear Arms Race Has Begun
The United States signed its first arms deal with the Soviet Union in 1972. Since then, there has always been a warning that if its opponent in Moscow does not live up to the terms of the deal, the US United had to preserve the ability to…
Hard to get out of
For decades, I have exhibited on my shelves two minor pieces of Gandhara sculpture, a stylized head of Buddha and a fragment of a stone frieze, an art form that developed in the northern region. -western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan…
Does the world have the will to stop Xi Jinping?
There is an old Soviet tale about Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At lunchtime, he retired to his office and looked at the world map. The map was centered on the Soviet Union. The old Bolshevik was staring at him as if it were a giant…
UFO stigma and alien conspiracy theories are relics of Cold War paranoia
For more than seven decades, very credible witnesses and sophisticated sensors observed mysterious objects fly in a way that defy easy explanation. But until recently the old presidents, High intelligence officials, members of Congress…
Kerr: How we teach history is what is essential | Opinion
A recent Loudoun County School Board meeting was violently disrupted in part because of Critical Race…
Dmitry Ermakov captures generation claiming Tatar identity – in photos – the Calvert…
Kazan eventually won the title of Russia's âthird capitalâ from the city of Nizhny Novgorod in 2009, although it still lags behind Moscow and St. Petersburg in terms of living standards.…
Belarusian activist Vitaly Shishov is found dead in Ukraine park
MOSCOW - Belarusian anti-government activist found dead in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on Tuesday, in what police described as murder or suicide, shining the spotlight on the risks faced by opponents of Belarusian leader Alexander G.…
Calendar, age, number of medals of the Olympic Games star
Simone Biles is seeks to make history - several times - at the Tokyo Olympics. The gymnast is the favorite for gold in four individual events in Tokyo and is also likely to win another gold at the top of the United States in the team…
The Putin doctrine? How the ideas of a 20th century thinker sidelined by the Soviets help shape…
In recent years, Vladimir Putin has repeatedly referred to the ideas of Lev Gumilev - one of the fathers of modern Eurasism - in the context of the roles of civilization and cultural factors in Russian!-->…
Jeff Bezos thanks Amazon customers and employees who “paid for it”
CNNCNN's Anderson Cooper spoke to Jeff Bezos and his brother moments after they returned to Earth. Bezos said the experience of flying in space was "amazing" and almost impossible to express in words. Seeing planet Earth from its New…
‘Black Widow’: Marvel redeems relationship with Natasha Romanoff
Redheaded and overly sexualized spy Natasha Romanoff, played by Scarlett Johansson, was introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) over 10 years ago in "Iron Man 2".…
Alberta Aviation Museum seeks new volunteers to restore rare WWII fighter jet
It was an American-made aircraft that flew over Edmonton for use by the Soviet Union. This is the flight path of the Bell P-39 Airacobra, a WWII fighter linked to the history of Blatchford Field. The planes would pass through Edmonton en…
Russia is feeling the heat as it fights the Delta variant
Russia started July with a double-record week as it faces two waves: a massive heat wave that produced some of the highest temperatures Russia has seen in over a century, and a third wave coronavirus infections.
The past two weeks have…
The Soviet Union – WorldAtlas
The Soviet Union, officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR for short, was a country made up of…
The fragile facade of Vladimir Putin’s Russia
High carbon steel is strong but brittle, super tough but susceptible to shattering under sudden impact. Mild or mild steel is ductile, prone to bending but less likely to break. The two metals are a useful metaphor for…
Afghanistan war spreads to Tajikistan, heightening Kremlin fears
As the United States completes the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan after two decades of a bloody and criminal war, numerous reports indicate that the ongoing conflict has already started to spread to neighboring Tajikistan.…
Stick to sport? Here’s what could happen to Olympians protesting at the Tokyo Games
Since the Olympic Games began in 1896, athletes have used the international stage to shed light on issues of social justice.One of the most iconic protests came from Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the 1968 200-meter gold and bronze…
Xi bets on disunity and misunderstanding between rival powers
Xi is too far away for a course correction.
CPC General Secretary Xi Jinping believes he was chosen by fate to write a chapter in Chinese history that will last as long as the PRC, which he hopes will forever.…
Putin’s unwarranted boasting | News, Sports, Jobs
Americans old enough to remember the prediction "We are going to bury you" pronounced by Nikita Khrushchev, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964, might still recall…
Today in history
Today in history
Today is Thursday, July 8, the 189th day of 2021. There are 176 days left in the year.
The highlight of today's history:On July 8, 1947, a New Mexico newspaper, the Roswell!-->…
Regime change is not an option in China
The relationship between China and the United States is the central drama of world politics today. It captures and defines the current era: great power rivalry, ideological competition, the spread of advanced technology, and the weakening…
Putin’s “Champagne” bet will lose its enthusiasm
In July 1936, with the signature of Joseph Stalin, the political bureau of the Soviet Union adopted the resolution "On the production of Soviet champagne", and decreed that the proletariat should not miss the most…
Lavrov said it would be good to sign a peace treaty between Russia and Japan – Russian…
VLADIVOSTOK, July 8. / TASS /. It would be a good step to sign a peace treaty between Russia and Japan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday.
âOur Japanese colleagues always say that they want to…
Why do developers keep making Chernobyl games?
On Saturday April 26, 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted. Contaminated nuclear material was released into the atmosphere for about ten days, traveling to Western Europe and the United Kingdom. It became the worst…
How the USSR aborted a potential smallpox epidemic in just 19 days
Thanks to a compulsory vaccination campaign, smallpox, a deadly virus that decimated mankind for centuries, was eradicated in the Soviet Union around 1936. However, it continued to exist in various parts of the world.
One of those places…
Pakistani intelligence chief gives 8-hour briefing on Afghanistan | Voice of America
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Senior Pakistani military and intelligence officials told members of parliament in a closed-door briefing on Thursday that they were losing influence over the Taliban and building border defenses for fear of an…
Farewell to Donald Rumsfeld
At 2:40 p.m. on September 11, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave orders to one of his subordinates. Among Rumsfeld's thoughts:
Better info quickly.Pretty goodjudge so well enoughpress SH @ at the same timenot just UBL
And:…
Gymnastics-Biles greatness ready for ultimate test in Tokyo
Artistic Gymnastics - Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2019 - Women's Floor Final - Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart, Germany - October 13, 2019 Simone Biles of the United States in action REUTERS / Wolfgang Rattay / File…
The Chinese Communist Party at 100: the secret of its longevity
June 26, 2021ON 1 JULY The Chinese Communist Party will celebrate its 100th anniversary. He has always called himself "great, glorious and correct". And as it enters its second century, the party has good reason to boast. Not only did…
Why Putin dares not abandon Belarusian dictator Lukashenka
Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Sochi with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on May 29. (Sputnik / Sergei Ilyin / Kremlin via REUTERS)…
How to deal with Russia: US diplomat’s 5,000-word telegram still echoes 75 years later
They kicked out diplomats. Penalties imposed. Fought proxy wars. Their war of words never really ends. But despite the often thorny relationship between the United States and Russia - and despite the brief "recall" of ambassadors that…
The silence of white moderates: passers-by must take a stand against racists if we are to end racism
"I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First of all, I must admit that over the past few years I have been sorely disappointed with white moderates. I almost came to the unfortunate conclusion…
Commentary: The Jimmy Carter Paradox
Joe Biden was the first US Senator to support Jimmy Carter as president in 1976. Now, as his presidency begins in earnest, Biden could do worse than emulate his old friend. Not Carter the politician, but Carter the president. In politics,…