“They [the West and Ukraine] wanted Russian soldiers to kill each other, so that soldiers and civilians would die, so that in the end Russia would lose, and our society would break apart and choke on bloody civil strife (…) They rubbed their hands, dreaming of getting revenge for their...
In 1916, Ilya went to the U.S. to give lectures about his father and stayed there, leaving his family behind in Russia. He spent the rest of his life "capitalizing" on his famous name: He commented on the 1917 Russian Revolution, gave lectures about the life and work of his father a...
Criminal gangs more powerful that Haiti's state security forces haveattacked prisons and the airportserving the country's capital, forcing businesses and schools to close and driving an estimated 15,000 people from their homes in Port-au-Prince. On March 12, Prime MinisterAriel Henry announced th...
The world of sport will also shine a spotlight on Europe this year, too, with the Olympics (and all the controversy over Russian and Belarusian athletes) coming to Paris, and the men's European Football Championship in Germany. 2024 will also be decisive for Ukraine in the ongoin...
To finance the much needed infrastructure improvements, the Russian government created the $420 billion Federal Target Program (FTP). The FTP focuses on key transportation areas such as rails, autos, marine and civil aviation. The FTP has specific goals to meet by 2015 such as increasing the pe...
When asked what happens to anti-Trump Republicans if Trump wins big in Iowa and New Hampshire, one Trump-critical GOP strategist said, “We’d become Wrangel Island Republicans. … The movement would largely be extinct and irrelevant.” The reference is to a remote Russian island where w...
(This is not the first time that this happens. Looking back at the evolution of both stock prices and exchange rates, around mid May 2022 Airbus market cap was around 20% higher than Boeing’s.) Now, looking back in time,at the end of 2012 ...
But what happens if you keep going? If you keep taking things apart, you'll eventually, find that all matter (all the "stuff" that surrounds us) is made from different types of atoms. Living things, for example, are mostly made from the atoms carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. These are ...
The MVD (Russian Interior Ministry) created a Spetsnaz unit drawn from rapid response, drug enforcement, and prison guard teams. These Spetsnaz act as a kind of SWAT team, specializing in domestic counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, and border security. They make up some 25 units. These men...
A: FIFA suspends members all the time.Just last week, they suspended Kenya and Zimbabwe for government inference.Last year, it was Chad and Pakistan for the same reasons. Usually it happens because of government interference, corruption or financial irregularities. Sometimes it can happen for dopin...