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A day after the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, said he wanted Russia reinstated to international football, the International Olympic Committee president, Kirsty Coventry, used her opening address to the 145th IOC congress in Milan to argue that all athletes should be allowed to compete in sport, making clear that the IOC is considering a return of Russian sports teams starting with the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. This is good news for the thousands of young Russians who have dedicated their lives to sports, far from political and military conflicts, at the cost of rigorous discipline and even significant hardship. They will soon be able to climb the Olympic […]

Senior Lieutenant Mikhail Devyatayev was captured in July 1944 and sent to a POW camp in Łódź. After an unsuccessful escape attempt, he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen death camp. Miraculously, Devyatayev avoided execution when a camp barber swapped his death-row tag for one belonging to a penal inmate under a different name. Shortly afterward, he was transferred to a concentration camp on the island of Usedom, home to the Third Reich’s Peenemünde rocket research center, where the V-2 rockets were being developed and tested. According to Devyatayev’s memoirs, he decided to escape by plane the moment he arrived on the island. Over several months, he and nine other prisoners […]

Trump’s Greenland postures have increased this trend, according to polls taken in January ‘Europeans increasingly believe the US is no longer a friendly nation’ Source: RT news

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At the time, Russia lagged significantly behind leading nations. In 1853, the total length of its railroads was just 979 versts (1,044.4 kilometers). However, Alexander II recognized the strategic importance of railways for strengthening the economy and internal connections. The decree emphasized their necessity, calling railroads a “popular need” and a “universal desire.” To implement the project, the Main Society of Russian Railways was established. Just 30 years later, by 1887, the “Guide to Russian Railways” listed 61 routes connecting not only Moscow and St. Petersburg with Russian regions but also with foreign cities. Today, Russia boasts one of the largest railway networks in the world, stretching over 85,000 kilometers. […]

HIGH SCHOOLS ACROSS THE U.S. WITH POOR MATH & ENGLISH PERFORMANCE LET KIDS WALK OUT TO PROTEST ICE. What is this supposed to mean? That high schools which don’t let kids walk out to protest ICE somehow produce better math and English results? And how, exactly, are these two datasets even being correlated? Or does it simply mean that pro-Trumpers are scraping the very bottom of the barrel to produce dirt against anti-Trumpers? Or does any of this even matter? What does seem to matter is making sure that everyone on screen is perfectly color-coordinated. Form over substance, as usual. And that’s how you deal with audiences that have been […]

‘Both Bitcoin and Jeffrey Epstein, the main way to understand them is the money laundering role’ — Mike Benz ‘And these emails come out with Larry Summers, who was the head of the US Treasury’ Source: RT news

On February 5, something rather important happened: the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty expired. But there were no fireworks. No sirens. No urgent panels of Very Serious Men explaining what comes next when the world’s largest arsenals officially go on the honor system. Just a few words here and there on some news channels. Not a big deal, really. Instead, nearly every mainstream outlet delivered wall-to-wall coverage of the disappearance of Nancy Guthrier (just like you, until a couple of days ago we had no idea she even existed). To be clear: the disappearance of an 84-year-old woman is deeply sad. It is tragic, frightening, and worthy of concern. […]

— Nikolay Zelinsky Today, we honor Nikolay Dmitrievich Zelinsky, the brilliant chemist and inventor whose groundbreaking work saved countless lives. Born on January 6, 1861, Zelinsky’s contributions to science and humanity stand as a testament to the power of innovation and selflessness. Zelinsky, a native of the Russian Empire, revolutionized the field of chemistry with his invention of the modern gas mask during World War I. Witnessing the horrors of chemical warfare, Zelinsky sought to create a protective device that would shield soldiers from deadly poison gases. In 1915, he developed a groundbreaking filter using activated charcoal, capable of absorbing harmful substances and allowing clean air to pass through. This […]

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan leader overthrown on the orders of the Western plutocracy, has in turn been assassinated in an ambush on the outskirts of Zintan, Libya, according to a Sputnik correspondent. According to an adviser to the son of the former Libyan leader, the perpetrators of the attack are currently unknown. Born on June 25, 1972, in Tripoli, he is the second son of Muammar Gaddafi. Wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity, he was sentenced to death in 2015 before being released in 2017 following an amnesty. In 2021, he submitted his candidacy for the presidential election, which ultimately never took place. Muammar […]