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OC - Tumen from "Red Moscow Project"
My sweetest girl, inspired by my friend. MC of "Red Moscow" and the biggest fan of Moscow's underground culture.
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Bachelor is Gay (like for real)
He is. Here’s the proof. I will credit people who helped me with sources.
In the 2005 release of the game, maybe only found in the original Russian, there is dialogue that Daniil can have with the dancer in the Broken Heart. If you’ve heard of this dialogue before it’s because you’ve heard it as the “I’m a misogynist” line. What I remember of it is that the dancer asks him if he likes her (in Classic they’re definitely sex workers so it’s in a suggestive “want to have a good time” way), and he can reply with
“вообще-то, я женоненавистник” — “Actually, I’m a woman-hater.”
(@panszy and @qawerian corroborated my memory on this, thanks!)
But the term “женоненавистник/zhenonenavistnik” has a noteworthy historical meaning in Russia of the 1910s, which is the closest thing to the canon setting.
This passage from the book Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent
(Thanks to @stavos for finding this and @excalibutt for finding an essay that first included the term)
“Linked to the idealized manly images projected with the help of such clothing [masculine uniforms] was another subcultural label in circulation in both capitals [St. Petersburg and Moscow], that of the “woman-hater” (zhenonenavistnik).”
Daniil is referring to himself with a period and setting appropriate term that means a gay man who likes masculine men.
He is either saying that he’s gay or joking that he’s gay... but since so many people have already concluded that he acts really gay and does seem interested in men and disinterested in women, I rest my case. I would say this puts him in the realm of canon queerness that Yulia and Andrey and Aspity dwell in—in that canon does make commentary about it.
Bonus: one of my other sources said that red neckties were a secret gay signal in St. Petersburg, which is likely the Capital Daniil comes from (it was the capital until 1918)
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gorbachev’s funeral was a solemn affair kept purposefully small by an outsized police presence, ordered there by a regime that wants to distance itself as much as possible from his legacy but which cannot forsake something as momentous as the last general secretary of the ussr. at the same time, those in power hate the people who embrace gorbachev and what he stood for. therefore you have “elements of a state funeral,” a ridiculous amount of police, riot police, plainclothes police, military police, elaborate ways of making sure as few people show up as possible (gorbachev was supposed to lie in state until 2pm, but this was suddenly moved to noon; the burial was closed to the public, but it was actually open). one person was arrested for holding up an anti-war sign. surprisingly, many complained about putin snubbing the funeral due to “scheduling conflicts.” good riddance! who among those present really wanted to see him?
it was something of a quiet protest action against him and the war, even without posters. a pensioner at novodevichy cemetery told me as much: “this is the only way i can protest against what’s going on without getting arrested, and they know it. i couldn’t not take the opportunity.” but what is a protest if it’s sanctioned, quiet, and cordoned off?
at 9:30 am, crowds began to gather at the house of the unions in the city center, where all former soviet leaders were displayed in state. it was both larger than i’d expected and much smaller than i’d hoped for from moscow. from a city of 12 million, there were perhaps a few thousand people all together, many with red carnations. there were several gate systems to the memorial manned by cops who had orders not to let in more than 50 people at a time (i overheard one say so on his walkie-talkie). as with the the funeral procession later on, there was a good showing by the post-soviet generation and those who would’ve been too young to remember much of anything from the gorbachev years; there was also a fair amount of pensioners. the crowd moved fast—the cops didn’t want to let anyone linger for too long in any place—and after three security checkpoints and five gates, i was in the luxurious hall of pillars, though made austere for gorbachev. after seconds of looking at a man who embodied the twentieth century like few others, i was urged to move on as fast as possible. on the way out, a couple behind me, a man and a woman in their 50s, started crying. they were not the only ones.
across the street, a large “we will fulfill our mission” poster, written with the propaganda Zs and Vs, hangs on the scaffolding of the new bolshoi theatre, as if to put a period on what had already ended months, if not years ago. the crowds only became bigger when i left at half past ten. on my way to novodevichy cemetery, i ran into gennady zyuganov, head of russia’s communist party, and asked for a photo—why not. a smaller crowd of CPRF, left front, and other “left” parties gathered for some event near red square. later, i learned that he gave a speech celebrating the end of wwii with the victory over japan. zyuganov said that we must continue the fight and cleanse the earth of nazis, as russia is doing now. this, too, is part of gorby’s legacy, the shattered pieces of a massive, unfinished political project.
a few hours passed before gorbachev’s procession arrived to novodevichy, where the crowd was a bit thinner. i stood next to a young law student in his junior year who skipped his first day of classes to pay respects, chatting with him to pass the time. “how excellent that so many young people showed up,” he said. maybe a third of those gathered was under 30. “if we are here together, it means russia still has a future.” the police moved us around from time to time to “make space.” after finding my way to him again, i noticed he had two carnations instead of four: he gave two to a journalism student and exchanged numbers. a pensioner: “is she your sister? no? watch over her, keep each other safe.”
the procession was headed by a downcast dmitry muratov, a massive portrait of gorbachev in his hands: one nobel peace laureate parting with the other. among those present for the funeral service were ambassadors, including john sullivan from the US, the south korean, french, and german ambassadors, and suzanne massie, a historian who served as advisor to reagan and allegedly introduced him to the russian idiom “trust, but verify,” with pavel palazhchenko, gorbachev’s long-time translator.
after the service, a 21-gun salute, the crowds thronging to the burial by raisa gorbachev’s grave. alexei venediktov (editor-in-chief of the now-dissolved echo of moscow, another glasnost creation) recently talked about how he went to novodevichy with gorbachev around 2010. gorbachev started crying, telling him that all he wanted now was to be buried with raisa. the love he had for her was immense. out of all the biographies and gorbachev/perestroika studies i’ve read, it’s only taubman’s that covers how profoundly he loved her with the space that such a deep, lasting relationship merited.
during the burial: “who do you think is next,” from one pensioner to another, two strangers. “well... you know.” “yes, let’s hope it happens soon.”
a last opportunity to pay respects at a grave heaped, heaped, heaped on with roses and carnations, and then the throngs dissolved. it was the best of who and what you could see in moscow, or, russia’s conscience—what’s left of it—on public display. i have no doubt everyone at the memorial and the cemetery was anti-war. the palpable depression of this crowd was alleviated only by the reinforcing mutual presence of everyone there, a silent solidarity drawn from an organization that hasn’t been seen on the streets since march. you understand what people feel from what’s not said—the looks—the tears—the efforts of men and women in their 80s and 90s to stand for hours, so long as they could say farewell.
the possibility of such organization, reluctantly allowed for the funeral and which was widely admissible in years passed, was the legacy with which we parted today. the defining feature of gorbachev’s rule was openness, glasnost, a gust of fresh air blowing through a hot, humid room, more than economic ideas that were a halfway house for the conditions the soviet state found itself in, and which he didn’t fully understand. yet he opened windows and doors. he returned memory to the people, he allowed memorial to form, he brought sakharov from exile, and yes, he then turned off his microphone during the congress of people’s deputies. gorbachev was a complicated, flawed individual who rose through the ranks of a bloody, ruthless bureaucracy to lead an imperial superpower whose continued survival was his overarching political imperative. he couldn’t have been gandhi. at one point, he nearly killed yeltsin with nothing more than a prolonged party criticism session; he was, directly or indirectly, responsible for the deaths of those on the imperial periphery.
but what could have been instead? nothing is precisely inevitable. had andropov been healthier, the soviet union could’ve been held together to this day by sheer force, or perhaps by prolonged conflict in azerbaijan, or mass-scale repression in the baltics. set in this context, gorbachev leashed the security institutions of the ussr, but didn’t properly dispose of them. thirty years later, his failure is zyuganov’s gleeful speech on denazification, the descent into a fascist society waging genocidal war. his success was thirty years of lost opportunity.
where do we go from here? the feeling of helplessness predominates, resonating through the said and unsaid perception of what could have been and what we have had. the crowd goes home, the opposition stays in jail, the war continues.
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Moscow's Lower Presnya - factory workers' village built in late 1920s
Thank you for making it happen: K. T., H. W., T. B., m., @depetium, @transarkadydzyubin, S. R.
Presnya in Moscow was a district of factories since the 18th century. Some of the factories that were based here are the Prokhorov's textile factory (Tryokhgornaya Manufactura), Smith's boiler factory, Danilovsky sugar factory, Ossovetsky's chemical plants etc. Factory workers usually lived close by (some of the factory owners built housing, but not all) so there were a wide array of houses and buildings (some brick, some wooden). After the 1917 Revolution all of the factories were nationalised and workers' living situation rethinked.
Presnya was the first workers' village in Moscow rebuilt after the Revolution (began in 1926). Emerged a district of 4-floor brick houses in formations that created court yards (something that didn't really exist for apartment buildings before then). Court yards were there purely for comfort of the residents. The new buildings mostly consisted of standard sections of 2 or 4 flats per floor per entrance. The standartisation helped bring the costs down (the buildings themselves were all still different). Buildings stood far enough from each other to allow enough air and sunlight. Most of the flats had windows facing North and South - it helped with air flow and sanitation (tuberculosis and other diseases were on the rise, and having direct sunlight in the flat was detrimental for germs). Many of the flats (though not all) had kitchens and bathrooms. Every building had a built-in boiler room that provided heating in winter. Flats were equipped with their own boilers to cook and heat water. Some other "smart house" solutions in the flats: a pipe system that sent heated water from the kitched to the bathroom, oven-samovar connector (to simplify boiling a samovar), built-in "ice pantry" in the kitchen (served as a fridge in wintertime), air ducts in every room, floor air ducts that also served as water retractors and prevented flooding the neighbours downstairs.
It's important to note that while some families had a whole flat to themselves, most of them were kommunalkas [communal flats] with several families sharing one flat, one room per family. Typically, workers aged 40+ with big families were more likely to get their own flat that younger or unmarried workers.
Let's see some of the residential buildings!
First, some of the 19th century ones - originally built by factory owners as housing for workers.
This new elite residence is built over three 19th cent. buildings. They tried to save as much as possible. The building on the left is mostly as is (only an extra floor was added on top), the building on the far right was kept as part of the facade, and the middle one was in too bad a condition to save, unfortunately.
Corner house with the Kommunar store - designed by Aleksandr Kurovsky.
Another building designed by Kurovsky was initially supposed to have more balconies - see the project on the cover of Building Moscow (#4, 1929). Originally the colors were reversed: the building was made of red brick (befitting the red brick factory surroundings) and the patterns were made of lime brick.
Pair of buildings designed by engineer Osvald Kapran are very simple but have a distinct feature.
And finally the architectural dominant of the Lower Presnya - Mostorg [Moscow Trade] department store designed by Brothers Vesnin and built in 1928. It was their first constructivist building in Moscow. This was the first and only store of this magnitute in the district, a symbol of the new centralised trade as opposed to old style markets.
Part one - Architecture | Part two - Museum
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Suppose Britain and the U.S. declined to help the USSR during WWII (not send lend lease aid mostly) would this have dramatically changed the war and postwar?
I don't think the Nazis could have won in the Eastern Front even without Lend-Lease aid, the Nazis were overextended and desperate on fuel. I don't think they could have captured Moscow or forced a Soviet capitulation.
However, I think without Lend-Lease aid, the Red Army would struggle to achieve a breakthrough against the Nazis, who would have been able to withdraw to fallback positions. No Lend-Lease means the Red Army is fighting with half the amount of tanks and aircraft that it normally has, with less ammunition of lower quality, and no Studebaker trucks to quickly deploy into the enemy strategic depth. In that sense, I think what happens is a stalemate on the Eastern Front, which lasts until the Western Allies start forcing their way into Fortress Europe.
After that, it depends on how much fighting strength the Nazis withdraw from the east to fortify the west. If Hitler preserves the majority of his fighting strength in the east, the Western Allies could probably project into the Balkans to flip Tripartite Pact signatories. If Hitler moves a good portion of his strength west, then the Soviets can march, albeit at a slower pace than in our own history. Without any need to preserve a relationship with the Western Allies, Stalin simply executes all non-communist political thinkers and installs puppet states as he did in our own time; Eastern Europe suffers the same.
Afterward, it's a solid question of whether the Soviet Union and the Western Allies come to blows. Japan may not feel the Soviets are able to mediate an agreement with the United States, but I don't think that makes them more likely to surrender - they'd likely try to use another mediator to open dialogue with the United States.
Thanks for the question, Cle-Guy.
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Dmitry Shagin "Laika, Tereshkova and Leonov in Space"
2011. Oil on canvas.
Shagin Dmitry Vladimirovich
Born in 1957
Dmitry Shagin is a Russian artist, one of the founders of the Mitki creative group.
Born in Leningrad, in the family of artist Vladimir Shagin. In 1975 he graduated from the Art School under the USSR Academy of Arts.
In 1984, Dmitry Shagin organized a group of artists called "Mitki". Dmitry Shagin considers his mother (artist Natalia Zhilina), father, Alexander Arefiev and Richard Vasmi, his teachers.
It has been exhibited since 1976 at exhibitions of Leningrad unofficial artists: TEV (Partnership of Experimental Exhibitions), TEI (Partnership of Experimental Fine Arts).
Since 1976, he has been a member of TEV (Partnership of Experimental Exhibitions). In 1981, he became one of the founders and a member of the council of TEII (Partnership of Experimental Fine Arts).
Since 1991, Dmitry Shagin has been a member of the International Federation of Artists (IFA). Since 1988, a number of foreign group exhibitions: Paris, Cologne, Antwerp, Lausanne, Vienna, San Diego, New York, Washington, Rio de Janeiro.
The works were purchased by many private collectors of foreign countries, the USSR and Russia, the Russian Museum, the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, the Novosibirsk Art Museum, etc.
Dmitry Shagin is one of the organizers of the Mitkilibris publishing house. In 1996, he founded and began to supervise the MITKI-VkhUTEMAS gallery together with Alexander Florensky. In 2006, he founded the museum of the MITKI creative association.
Author of musical projects: "Mitkovsky Songs", "Mitkovsky Dances", "Mitkovsky Peter", "Moscow Mitkovskaya", etc. Author of books of poems and prose. The book "Dyk" (ed. "Red Sailor") was awarded the art prize "Petrol" for 2006.
Author of objects: "Mitkovskaya Velnyashka", "Mitkovsky Flag", "Rock Musicians", etc. Author of performances: Mitkovskaya Olympics, River Brothering, Mitkovskaya Vest, etc.
Dmitry Shagin is the chairman of the board of trustees of the rehabilitation center "House of Hope on the Mountain".
In 2006, he was awarded the Petropol Art Prize. In 2009, he was awarded the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize for the project "Russian Literature. Years passed..."
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"With the permission of the Nazis, the Zionists visited the concentration camps and selected the right Jews." Merged classified dissertation of the head of Palestine, written in Moscow.
The American analytical agency for the study of the Middle East MEMRI was able to obtain the full text of the classified doctoral thesis of the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, which was written in the USSR and in which the initiators of the Holocaust were presented by the Jews themselves. The main theses from this "scientific work" is cited by the publication Israel Hayom.
According to the publication Israel Hayom, it had the full text of the doctoral dissertation of the current president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, which was written by him in Moscow in 1982 and immediately classified by the Soviet KGB (the secrecy of Abbas's work is still preserved in today's russia.
The text was given to the Israeli publication by the American Middle East research agency MEMRI, which managed to obtain it from russian archives, notes Israel Hayom.
In his 119-page doctoral thesis, Mahmoud Abbas, who at the time went by the party alias "Abu Mazen" and was additionally recruited by the KGB under the code name "Krotov", argued that "there were strong links between Zionism and Nazism" and that as the initiators of the Holocaust were the Jews themselves.
Abbas himself successfully defended his work at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, which at that time was headed by the famous professor and KGB agent Yevhen Primakov , who after the collapse of the USSR managed to become the director of the russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the minister of foreign affairs and even the prime minister.
"The main conclusion that Mahmoud Abbas comes to is that the Holocaust of the Jews was a joint project of the Nazis and the Zionist movement, which Abbas hates so much. The current head of the Palestinian Authority did everything to prevent the full text of his work from appearing anywhere, but we still got it," MEMRI president Yigal Karman told Israel Hayom.
According to Karman, Abbas's main idea in his work can be divided into several direct quotations with theses, the disclosure of which the author pays most attention in the text.
Here are just some of them.
"Zionist emissaries were given free access to the concentration camps in order to select the right people for the settlement of Israel and leave there others, unfit, who were not supposed to leave the concentration camps alive."
"Zionists deliberately killed Jews who, as part of illegal migration, fled from Nazi rule to the lands of Israel (at that time, the British Mandate of Palestine. — "NN"). They were killed because, according to the Zionists, they were wrong and unfit to settle in Israel."
"The leaders of the Zionist centers tried to hide from the international community the facts of resistance to the Nazis on the part of other Jewish factions and movements, in order to personally take part in the post-war peace negotiations. Their aim was to claim a share of the trophies from the victory of the Allies.'
"In 1943, an opportunity arose to send food, medicine and parcels to Jewish ghettos in Europe, but the Zionists thwarted this initiative, despite the fact that the International Red Cross was ready to undertake it."
"The entire population of the territories occupied by the Nazis, and not only Jews, was under the equal influence of the cruel Nazi military machine. There are no exact statistics on the number of Jewish victims, but they are deliberately exaggerated by the Zionists. In reality, less than a million died."
Regarding the last quote, the president of MEMRI especially emphasized that Mahmoud Abbas, in his narrative about "Nazis who treated everyone the same", relied heavily on official Soviet propaganda and odious Soviet anti-Semitic thinkers , who deliberately minimized the consequences of the Holocaust or denied it altogether, saying "about the general suffering of the Soviet people."
However, unlike Mahmoud Abbas, Soviet propaganda at least did not try to claim that the Jews inflated the number of victims, who died more than 6 million," Yigal Karman notes.
Carman suggests that Abbas's "scientific work" was too toxic even for the Soviet leadership, so they, of course, awarded him a doctorate, but also ordered the KGB to hide this thesis further.
#stop russian aggression#russia is a terrorist state#israel#holocaust#jews#jewish#antisemitism#антисемітизм
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“The soldier,” Thanos said. He flinched a little as one of Natasha’s widow’s stings hit him in the side of the head, but brushed it off as if it was nothing more than a mosquito bite. “The man out of…time.”
Thanos let the last word linger there between them. The Stones set across his knuckles glittered in the fading sunlight as he turned his left hand over, thoughtful.
He was a kid playing with a new toy, the kind of boy who burned the wings off flies with a magnifying glass and a sunbeam. Steve knew the exact instant Thanos realized he could use more than one of the Stones at the same time.
March 1945: With the deaths of Johann Schmidt and Steve Rogers only a month old, the SSR has spent the intervening weeks hunting down the last of Hydra’s holdouts. When Peggy Carter and the Howling Commandos are unexpectedly called back to London, however, the return of Steve Rogers from beyond the grave raises more questions than it answers – and draws the attention of a dangerous new enemy. (Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanoff)
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9: Chasing Tomorrows
112K, AU, WIP
Chapter preview:
By this time Lebedev was upright again, though his face was a mask of blood from his broken nose. He wiped some of it off and said rather thickly, “And here I was concerned that the Red Skull had knocked all the fight out of you when you gave up so easily back at the club. I’m glad to see that isn’t true.”
“Well, as long as you’re happy,” Steve said, his voice muffled by the dirty floorboards.
Lebedev crouched down in front of him and pulled his head up by the hair so that he could see Steve’s face. “This doesn’t have to be unpleasant, Captain Rogers. It will mean a great deal less trouble for you if you simply cooperate.”
“Maybe you should stop worrying about what’s going to cause me trouble and start worrying about yourself,” Steve suggested, a little breathless from the bad angle. “It’s a long way back to Moscow.”
“Not so long as all that,” Lebedev said. He switched to Russian to call over his shoulder, “Josef, if you’re still intact, bring the drug.”
Petkus staggered to his feet, whimpering a little as he stumbled over to the other side of the room, but he turned to shoot Steve a look of pure hatred.
Steve felt a muscle in his jaw tighten, a reaction which at this distance Lebedev couldn’t miss. “Is that really your plan?” he asked. “Keeping me drugged all the way to Moscow? You know that drugs don’t even work on me when I’d like them to.”
“Perhaps,” Lebedev said. “Perhaps not. I don’t believe we’ll have to, though we’re prepared enough if it comes to it.” He touched his free hand gingerly to his broken nose again and winced, then went on, “Your pretty wife, Captain, the lovely Mrs. Rogers –”
“If you had her here, you’d be shoving her in front of me,” Steve said. “So you don’t have her. And if you don’t have her, then I’m betting you don’t have the people you sent after her, either.”
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some random espave questions bcuz i love them:
go-to drink when they go out to eat? favourite place to go out to eat?
what movie does one of them like/love that the other can't stand, if any? (like, if wave liked smth like uhh idk the human centipede, but espio hates it with his entire chamussy)
biggest 'wtf is wrong with you' moment?
favourite drink:
oh boy! that depends on the venue, so i’ll list a couple. wave likes chai lattes, but she’ll also have a cappuccino if it’s morning brunch. they’ll split a wine at a restaurant (one that caters to both their dish palettes, red white or rosé are all possibilities as it depends on availability and parity) and wave’s favourite cocktail is a moscow mule! espio’s a gin and tonic guy, but he’ll get a london fog at brunch
favourite place to eat: once again it depends on the time of day, but there’s a french cafe they usually go to for brunch all the time at! they’re brunch havers!!!
movie intolerance: espio hates when wave puts on spirited away because she just relentlessly calls him haku and pokes/teases him for it. he probably also wouldn’t understand the beauty of the human centipede 🥺💔 wave hates when espio watches clara-era doctor who because she doesn’t like clara no i’m not projecting haha what
biggest wtf is wrong with you moment: CAN I SAY BIOHAZARD EUROVISION? IDK IF TUMBLR KNOWS WHAT THIS MEANS idk tldr wave nearly kills espio via mobian mono by getting fiona to give it to mighty who gives it to espio not realizing that the strain is often fatal for reptiles. anyways espio’s wtf moment would be when he started transforming into a fucked up hybrid super form, grew some weird horns, got a lot more humanoid, and routinely sparred mephiles who is back now and actively ripping apart the spaciotemporal fabric of reality!
… so yeah. my lore gets weird we’ll leave it there LMAK
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A long way to go
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#art#digital illustration#artist on tumblr#illustration#personal art#red moscow project#original character#digital art#арт#диджитал арт#русский арт#русский tumblr#мой арт#иллюстрация#художник
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August 1973... Speedmaster at Star City !
On May 22, 1973, Omega HQ Bienne received a delegation of Russian cosmonauts lead by Aleksei Yeliseyev and presented the spacefarers with the Omega toolwatches such as the flightmaster pilot watch and the Speedmaster chronograph.
The Russian delegation was even shown the ex-Alaska II Project Speedmaster chronographs with red outer case, originally designed for use on the bumpy Lunar Rover in the harsh/dusty Moon environment. However, Omega's Alaska II Project never made it to the Moon but the Russians showed interest for use on the newly developed Orlan EVA space suit on the Salyut-6 space station.
Already in June 1973, the Omega flightmaster pilot watch was spotted on the wrists of the ASTP cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov while training at Star City - Moscow.
It looks like the earliest Omega Speedmaster chronograph photo dates August 1973 as Star City commander Georgi Beregovoy talked to the Soyuz 12 crew.
The first Omega flightmaster pilot watch Speedmaster flown-in-space on Soyuz 14 in July 1974 while the first Omega Speedmaster chronograph worn by a Russian cosmonaut in space was during Soyuz 16 in November 1974.
Learn the whole story in upcoming podcast !
(Photo: RKA/TASS)
#Aviator#Cosmonaut#861#Speedmaster#chronograph#Moonwatch#MoonwatchUniverse#Star city#Moscow#Sokol#Orlan#Salyut#NASA#spaceflight#space station#military#montres#uhren#Zulu time
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Season 2, Episode 7: the crackle goes kiwi caper for @csweekly
AKA, one more week until Stockholm. Get pumped.
This opening is so cool. Love how it’s so seamless from the previous episode. We were promised Moscow and that’s what we get. There is a nice tension to the scene too that Player doubles down on. He’s glad to hear the IDs worked, which means they weren’t sure that they would.
Hello Mr Rhys Darby nice to hear your voice again. I would support your promotion to Faculty.
Dr Bellum has SEVEN uncles. And she hates figures of speech. I love??? These moments?? The Faculty are evil but also silly and completely human. It’s these moments that humanize them. Give them depth.
It is. SO cool to see Shadowsan vs Neal here. Maybe it’s because they’re in disguise, and Neal is an older operative, and they’ve got history, or maybe because it we get to see Carmen and Shadowsan really slickly working together on a caper. Up until now they’ve all been mostly improv. We are in the thick of it now.
Love the sibs getting to work on the warehouse and make it like home. Its productive for them! Look at Ivy’s smile! Zack’s sandwich!
OH yes! Okay Shadowsan is able to confirm for Carmen that Bellum wiped Gray’s mind. I love this moment because team red now has the most complete picture of the whole situation now that Shadowsan’s with them. And Player. Is so funny. He says “fair enough” with his eyes closed, finally surrendering the idea that Crackle is a sleeper agent. Listen, this kid does not like Crackle one bit and this scene just emphasizes it.
Also! Cool that Bellum just always has a project and wants to solve things. She’s a true mad scientist.
The enthusiasm with which Zack looks up to Shadowsan absolutely kills me. Shadowsan never speaks about ninjas in a particularly positive light because that’s what he is, and he knows it’s dark. But Zack puts a positive spin on it. He’s in awe of this man. He wants to learn. ~~he wants a dad~~
Zack. Ivy. nO.
Player what.
WHAT IS THAT GESTURE? Who is gonna sign him (and Carmen and Zack and Ivy) for drama club?
“Player has wicked awesome gamer reflexes” how many rounds of Mario Kart have you lost, Zack? Tell me.
Player offering to use Crackle? Interesting. Must be fully convinced he’s clean then.
Also I appreciate that Carmen says “we can’t pull him back into the game”. Nice little nod to the CS PC games. And that was a 90s Carmen theme too.
But also this episode makes me so mad, just get Player a plane ticket and sell the story to his parents. It’s okay. I’m fine.
The way Gray barely looks at her and is all “you’re late”. Magnificent.
Okay but Shadowsan waiting for the cable guy is an important job.
Okay. Take one moment to appreciate how pretty cool and unique this caper is.
Listen. LISTEN. how funny it would be if “Peter” were actually Player’s legal name. He’s using his legal name as an ALIAS. That's next level crazy. That’s gotta be worth it’s own fic or at least a plot point in one. I’m totally cool with continuing to find fun ways to keep referring to him as Player in fics but this is one instance I might be moved to actually use a non canon name, because there are so many ways to take it.
My “Player has a grudge on Crackle” agenda goes berserk in this episode. They literally talk to each other and have NO idea. My mind is buzzing. Player does it for Carmen but how many times is he thinking about the “my best SCHOOL friend” line. (Not much because he’s comfortable and confident in his friendship but these kids are petty let me live)
So, Gray, what you’re SAYING, is that you wouldn’t mind doing the lighting for Boston.
The way Carmen dances to the music while doing her thing this caper is so cool.
Was. Was Neal the one Black Sheep stole the belt from in her flashback? I wonder that sometimes. It’s so interesting to hear the perspective of an older operative who watched her grow up there.
The panic Player has at the change of plans. Nice show of multitasking too he’s literally typing and not looking.
I love this entire near miss. Bellum, Neal, Gray could have all seen each other so easily this entire part of the episode.
And here’s what I love about Carmen. Between finishing the mission and keeping Gray safe, she doesn’t hesitate.
AH that moment he USES the crackle rod and Carmen is HOLDING her breath if he’ll remember but he doesn’t!
ULTIMATUM!!!! I love a good ultimatum. I don’t think this series has had one yet like this? Like this is super big stakes. I love Bellum. She’s kooky mad scientist who wants to solve problems and the next SECOND she’s like “let’s destroy the rice and starve a whole population” and “let’s cut the power to hospitals and air traffic” like. The others want valuable objects but Bellum’s solo capers are just??? Actual life or death???? It’s chilling. And I just love it when a character is told to surrender or else it’s one of my favorite tropes. VILE is still wanting her alive at this point.
I’m actually fully convinced, that, if given more seasons, there would have been a time travel episode courtesy of Bellum as a nod to the 90a series. This episode further lays the groundwork for her wanting to solve scientific mysteries
Love the parallels to Casablanca here.
Haha. Carmen crashes with her glider two episodes in a row. (I am salivating over next week already)
Carmen is SO relieved that Gray wants to be one of the good guys.
“I do provide a service and it is secret” lol
Player found his bank account lolol not the first time he’s found and tampered with a bank account
VILE never laid eyes in Gray! Player double checking what Carmen wants to do about him, making sure she feels safe since he saw her doing her thief stuff. Carmen’s at peace that he doesn’t remember VILE…
Which ACME is about to COMPLETELY ruin.
Next week, Rue goes feral over the amount of angst and whump in one episode for EVERYONE. But particularly Carmen. I could watch it all day.
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ESSEN, Germany (AP) — For most of this century, Germany racked up one economic success after another, dominating global markets for high-end products like luxury cars and industrial machinery, selling so much to the rest of the world that half the economy ran on exports.
Jobs were plentiful, the government's financial coffers grew as other European countries drowned in debt, and books were written about what other countries could learn from Germany.
No longer. Now, Germany is the world’s worst-performing major developed economy, with both the International Monetary Fund and European Union expecting it to shrink this year.
It follows Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the loss of Moscow's cheap natural gas — an unprecedented shock to Germany’s energy-intensive industries, long the manufacturing powerhouse of Europe.
The sudden underperformance by Europe's largest economy has set off a wave of criticism, handwringing and debate about the way forward.
Germany risks “deindustrialization” as high energy costs and government inaction on other chronic problems threaten to send new factories and high-paying jobs elsewhere, said Christian Kullmann, CEO of major German chemical company Evonik Industries AG.
From his 21st-floor office in the west German town of Essen, Kullmann points out the symbols of earlier success across the historic Ruhr Valley industrial region: smokestacks from metal plants, giant heaps of waste from now-shuttered coal mines, a massive BP oil refinery and Evonik's sprawling chemical production facility.
These days, the former mining region, where coal dust once blackened hanging laundry, is a symbol of the energy transition, dotted with wind turbines and green space.
The loss of cheap Russian natural gas needed to power factories “painfully damaged the business model of the German economy,” Kullmann told The Associated Press. “We’re in a situation where we’re being strongly affected — damaged — by external factors.”
After Russia cut off most of its gas to the European Union, spurring an energy crisis in the 27-nation bloc that had sourced 40% of the fuel from Moscow, the German government asked Evonik to keep its 1960s coal-fired power plant running a few months longer.
The company is shifting away from the plant — whose 40-story smokestack fuels production of plastics and other goods — to two gas-fired generators that can later run on hydrogen amid plans to become carbon neutral by 2030.
One hotly debated solution: a government-funded cap on industrial electricity prices to get the economy through the renewable energy transition.
The proposal from Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck of the Greens Party has faced resistance from Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, and pro-business coalition partner the Free Democrats. Environmentalists say it would only prolong reliance on fossil fuels.
Kullmann is for it: “It was mistaken political decisions that primarily developed and influenced these high energy costs. And it can’t now be that German industry, German workers should be stuck with the bill.”
The price of gas is roughly double what it was in 2021, hurting companies that need it to keep glass or metal red-hot and molten 24 hours a day to make glass, paper and metal coatings used in buildings and cars.
A second blow came as key trade partner China experiences a slowdown after several decades of strong economic growth.
These outside shocks have exposed cracks in Germany's foundation that were ignored during years of success, including lagging use of digital technology in government and business and a lengthy process to get badly needed renewable energy projects approved.
Other dawning realizations: The money that the government readily had on hand came in part because of delays in investing in roads, the rail network and high-speed internet in rural areas. A 2011 decision to shut down Germany's remaining nuclear power plants has been questioned amid worries about electricity prices and shortages. Companies face a severe shortage of skilled labor, with job openings hitting a record of just under 2 million.
And relying on Russia to reliably supply gas through the Nord Stream pipelines under the Baltic Sea — built under former Chancellor Angela Merkel and since shut off and damaged amid the war — was belatedly conceded by the government to have been a mistake.
Now, clean energy projects are slowed by extensive bureaucracy and not-in-my-backyard resistance. Spacing limits from homes keep annual construction of wind turbines in single digits in the southern Bavarian region.
A 10 billion-euro ($10.68 billion) electrical line bringing wind power from the breezier north to industry in the south has faced costly delays from political resistance to unsightly above-ground towers. Burying the line means completion in 2028 instead of 2022.
Massive clean energy subsidies that the Biden administration is offering to companies investing in the U.S. have evoked envy and alarm that Germany is being left behind.
“We’re seeing a worldwide competition by national governments for the most attractive future technologies — attractive meaning the most profitable, the ones that strengthen growth,” Kullmann said.
He cited Evonik’s decision to build a $220 million production facility for lipids — key ingredients in COVID-19 vaccines — in Lafayette, Indiana. Rapid approvals and up to $150 million in U.S. subsidies made a difference after German officials evinced little interest, he said.
“I'd like to see a little more of that pragmatism ... in Brussels and Berlin,” Kullmann said.
In the meantime, energy-intensive companies are looking to cope with the price shock.
Drewsen Spezialpapiere, which makes passport and stamp paper as well as paper straws that don't de-fizz soft drinks, bought three wind turbines near its mill in northern Germany to cover about a quarter of its external electricity demand as it moves away from natural gas.
Specialty glass company Schott AG, which makes products ranging from stovetops to vaccine bottles to the 39-meter (128-foot) mirror for the Extremely Large Telescope astronomical observatory in Chile, has experimented with substituting emissions-free hydrogen for gas at the plant where it produces glass in tanks as hot as 1,700 degrees Celsius.
It worked — but only on a small scale, with hydrogen supplied by truck. Mass quantities of hydrogen produced with renewable electricity and delivered by pipeline would be needed and don't exist yet.
Scholz has called for the energy transition to take on the “Germany tempo,” the same urgency used to set up four floating natural gas terminals in months to replace lost Russian gas. The liquefied natural gas that comes to the terminals by ship from the U.S., Qatar and elsewhere is much more expensive than Russian pipeline supplies, but the effort showed what Germany can do when it has to.
However, squabbling among the coalition government over the energy price cap and a law barring new gas furnaces has exasperated business leaders.
Evonik's Kullmann dismissed a recent package of government proposals, including tax breaks for investment and a law aimed at reducing bureaucracy, as “a Band-Aid.”
Germany grew complacent during a “golden decade” of economic growth in 2010-2020 based on reforms under Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2003-2005 that lowered labor costs and increased competitiveness, says Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg bank.
“The perception of Germany's underlying strength may also have contributed to the misguided decisions to exit nuclear energy, ban fracking for natural gas and bet on ample natural gas supplies from Russia,” he said. “Germany is paying the price for its energy policies.”
Schmieding, who once dubbed Germany “the sick man of Europe” in an influential 1998 analysis, thinks that label would be overdone today, considering its low unemployment and strong government finances. That gives Germany room to act — but also lowers the pressure to make changes.
The most important immediate step, Schmieding said, would be to end uncertainty over energy prices, through a price cap to help not just large companies, but smaller ones as well.
Whatever policies are chosen, “it would already be a great help if the government could agree on them fast so that companies know what they are up to and can plan accordingly instead of delaying investment decisions," he said.
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Saturday, April 20, 2024
Young People Get Their News from TikTok. That’s a Huge Problem for Democrats.
(CJR) Democrats are doing the most awkward TikTok dance. The House’s attempt to force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the social media behemoth to an American entity has put Democrats from President Biden on down in a tough spot. Most are now on record backing a bill that could shutter a fast-growing platform that’s most popular with the young voters they so badly need. TikTok users aren’t just kids mindlessly scrolling dance videos. Roughly one-third of Americans aged 18–29 regularly get their news from TikTok, the Pew Research Center found in a late 2023 survey. Overall, TikTok claims 150 million American users, almost half the US population.
Russia Builds New Asia Trade Routes
(Bloomberg) Russia is pressing ahead with construction of two new transport corridors linking Asia and Europe, seeking to weaken sanctions over its war in Ukraine at the same time as Middle East turmoil is disrupting global trade. The shipping and rail networks via Iran and an Arctic sea passage could strengthen Moscow’s pivot toward Asian powerhouses China and India and away from Europe. They have potential to embed Russia at the heart of much of international trade even as the US and its allies are trying to isolate President Vladimir Putin over the war. The routes could cut 30%-50% off transit times compared to the Suez Canal and avoid security problems plaguing the Red Sea as Houthi rebels attack international shipping over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
An ISIS Terror Group Draws Half Its Recruits From Tiny Tajikistan
(NYT) The mother of one of the suspects in the bloody attack on a concert hall near Moscow last month wept as she talked about her son. “We need to understand—who is recruiting young Tajiks, why do they want to highlight us as a nation of terrorists?” said the mother, Muyassar Zargarova. Many governments and terrorism experts are asking the same question. Tajik adherents of the Islamic State—especially within its affiliate in Afghanistan known as the Islamic State Khorasan Province (I.S.K.P.), or ISIS-K—have taken increasingly high-profile roles in a string of recent terrorist attacks. Over the last year alone, Tajiks have been involved in assaults in Russia, Iran and Turkey, as well as foiled plots in Europe. ISIS-K is believed to have several thousand soldiers, with Tajiks constituting more than half, experts said.
India’s Lok Sabha Election
(1440) The world’s largest democratic elections begin in India today as nearly 1 billion voters head to the polls. Over the next six weeks, voters will determine the composition of the 543-member Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament responsible for nominating a prime minister. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party are seeking a third consecutive term against a coalition of parties called the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance. A simple majority of 272 seats is needed to rule for the five-year term—BJP won 303 seats last election. Economic concerns, particularly inflation and unemployment, are chief issues among voters. Modi, 73, is favored to win and maintains a 75% approval rating, particularly due to his government’s welfare programs and infrastructure projects.
Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking, researchers say
(Reuters) Nearly half of China's major cities are suffering "moderate to severe" levels of subsidence, putting millions of people at risk of flooding especially as sea levels rise, according to a study of nationwide satellite data released on Friday. The authors of the paper, published by the journal Science, found 45% of China's urban land was sinking faster than 3 millimetres per year, with 16% at more than 10 mm per year, driven not only by declining water tables but also the sheer weight of the built environment. With China's urban population already in excess of 900 million people, "even a small portion of subsiding land in China could therefore translate into a substantial threat to urban life," said the team of researchers led by Ao Zurui of the South China Normal University. Subsidence already costs China more than 7.5 billion yuan ($1.04 billion) in annual losses, and within the next century, nearly a quarter of coastal land could actually be lower than sea levels, putting hundreds of millions of people at an even greater risk of inundation.
Iranians both nervous and relieved after narrow Israeli strike
(Washington Post) An uneasy calm settled over Iran on Friday as residents took stock of Israel’s pre-dawn strike in the central province of Isfahan. The attack, which was narrow in scope, appeared aimed at de-escalating tensions, analysts and officials said, after a massive Iranian missile and drone attack against Israel last week. But Iranians in Isfahan, which hosts sensitive military and nuclear facilities, said the strike was a reminder of how close the country has come to an all-out war, after years in which Israel and Iran fought mainly in the shadows. Iranian officials and state media downplayed the attack, dismissing the strike as insignificant and saying the explosions reported in Isfahan, more than 200 miles south of Tehran, were from Iran’s air defenses intercepting drones. Israel has made no official public comment on the strike, and the primary target remained unclear. In Isfahan, a city famed for its ornate Islamic architecture, residents said life continued normally on Friday but that the streets were quieter than usual. The city is the third-largest in Iran with nearly 2 million residents.
Soldiers who lost limbs in Gaza fighting are finding healing on Israel’s amputee soccer team
(AP) When Ben Binyamin was left for dead, his right leg blown off during the Hamas attack on the Tribe of Nova music festival, the Israeli professional soccer player thought he would never again play the game he loved. “When I woke up,” the 29-year-old said, “I felt I was going to spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair.” Then Binyamin learned about a chance to be “normal” again: Israel’s national amputee soccer team. “It’s the best thing in my life,” said 1st Sgt. Omer Glikstal of the team’s twice-weekly practices at a stadium in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Gan. “It’s a very different game than I used to play, but in the end, it’s the same,” he said. Amputee soccer teams have six fielder players who are missing lower limbs; they play on crutches and without prosthetics. Each team has a goalkeeper with a missing upper extremity. The pitch is smaller than standard. At team practices, the Israeli players are undeterred by the absence of an arm or a leg. “We all have something in common. We’ve been through a lot of hard and difficult times. It unites us,” said Aviran Ohana.
Israel blames Gaza starvation on U.N.
(CBS News) Under pressure from the U.S. and other allies to flood the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid, Israel insists it’s doing everything it can, and it blames the United Nations for the starvation of thousands of Palestinians in the war-torn enclave. In a Wednesday morning social media post, the Israeli government said it had “scaled up our capabilities” and it included a video clip showing hundreds of white containers that it said were loaded with aid and waiting for collection inside Gaza. The United Nations says it’s not just about getting food into Gaza, but distributing it once it reaches the territory. U.N. aid agencies say those operations have been severely hindered by the almost total destruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure. Many roads have been blown up, along with health, water, sanitation and food production facilities. Humanitarian workers do what they can. The demand to fill bowl after bowl at emergency food distribution points is never ending. Still, a third of children under the age of two in Gaza are currently acutely malnourished, according to the U.N. children’s charity UNICE.
Drought Pushes Millions Into ‘Acute Hunger’ in Southern Africa
(NYT) An estimated 20 million people in southern Africa are facing what the United Nations calls “acute hunger” as one of the worst droughts in more than four decades shrivels crops, decimates livestock and, after years of rising food prices brought on by pandemic and war, spikes the price of corn, the region’s staple crop. Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe have all declared national emergencies. It is a bitter foretaste of what a warming climate is projected to bring to a region that’s likely to be acutely affected by climate change, though scientists said on Thursday that the current drought is more driven by the natural weather cycle known as El Niño than by global warming. Its effects are all the more punishing because in the past few years the region had been hit by cyclones, unusually heavy rains and a widening outbreak of cholera.
A Little Bit of Dirt Is Good for You
(NYT) Scientists have long known that a little dirt can be good for you. Research has suggested that people who grow up on farms, for instance, have lower rates of Crohn’s disease, asthma and allergies, likely because of their exposure to a diverse array of microbes. In the 1970s, scientists even found a soil-dwelling bacterium, called Mycobacterium vaccae, that has an anti-inflammatory effect on our brains, possibly both lowering stress and improving our immune response to it. When we’re touching soil or even just out in nature, “we’re breathing in a tremendous amount of microbial diversity,” said Christopher A. Lowry, a professor of integrative physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder. A recent Finnish experiment found that children attending urban day cares where a native “forest floor” had been planted had both a stronger immune system and a healthier microbiome than those attending day cares with gravel yards—and continued to have beneficial gut and skin bacteria two years later. It’s not just good for kids; adults can also benefit from exposure to soil-dwelling microbes, Dr. Lowry said. So this spring, make a little time to go outside and get grimy.
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NAME: Magdelina Baranove
BIRTHDAY:
PLACE OF BIRTH: Moscow, Russia
PROFESSION: Co-Director of Project Legacy
FACE CLAIM: Eve Best
ABILITIES:
- super soldier strength
- super soldier endurance
- super soldier agility
- enhanced healing
TIMELINE:
- Magdelina joins the Soviet Army in WWII, and served through the war. After the war, she would be recruited to join the KGB for her covert work.
- While working for the KGB she was observed and analyzed to see if she would make a good candidate for the Red Room project, and was among some of the first to enter the program.
- Excelling through the program with outstanding results, she was granted the super soldier serum, which her body accepted.
- Shortly after the twins Anastasia and James Barnes-Romanova were re-acquired to HYDRA & The Red Room, she was recruited for a new project, tasked with locating people with potential greatness due to relation of known heroes and super humans, Project Legacy.
- She was sent to Germany for a time to get everything set up, before she would head to Siberia where she would obtain the Barnes-Romanova twins, and set for the estate where potential assets would live and be trained.
- When the Project was potentially exposed by defected assets, Baranova retreated into hiding, and has not been pinpointed since.
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When the presumptive Republican nominee for the U.S. presidency Donald Trump threatened that he would withdraw NATO protection from delinquent allies (i.e. those who do not invest enough in their own defense), his words drew widespread condemnation. Yet some of America’s European allies are not doing their cause any favors.
On March 15, Latvia’s President Edgars Rinkēvičs expressed his “full support” for French President Emmanuel Macron’s hawkish stance toward Moscow, saying “we should not draw red lines for ourselves, we must draw red lines for Russia and we should not be afraid to enforce them.” Rinkēvičs failed to specify what these red lines were, but presumably, he referred to Macron’s hints at a possibility of sending NATO troops to fight Russia in Ukraine.
This kind of rhetoric is a standard fare in European politicians’ speeches, particularly those leaders from Central and Eastern European countries. It has an advantage of projecting resolve while being sufficiently vague about what exactly would qualify as Ukraine’s victory and Russia’s defeat. But Rinkēvičs upped the ante by adding this phrase in Latin: “Russia delenda est.”
“Delenda est” is a phrase used by Cato, a politician of the Roman Republic with respect to Carthago (Carthago delenda est) which is translated as “Carthago must be destroyed.” While some may interpret Rinkēvičs’s choice of words as an exhortation to steadfastly fight the enemy — Russia — it is reasonable to suggest that most people would take the phrase more literally: as a call to destroy, not just fight an enemy, in this case Russia.
Certainly, this is how this call was perceived in Moscow: former president and current deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, true to form, responded with a volley of aggressive insults against Rinkēvičs and Latvia, calling him “a Nazi bastard,” his country “non-existent” and promising an “inevitable retribution.”
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