Russian President Vladimir Putin has been stripped of his honorary taekwondo black belt by the World Taekwondo Federation. Putin was awarded the prestigious item by the federation’s chief, Choue Chung-won, and was also made a grandmaster of the martial art during a November 2013 visit to South Korea, where taekwondo …
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The executive committee of Lehigh’s Board of Trustees voted on Thursday to rescind and revoke the honorary degree that was granted to Trump when he spoke at the $70,000-a-year private university’s commencement ceremony in 1988. With explicitly stating reasons for the decision, Lehigh suggested that Trump was at least partly …
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On the website Change.org there was a petition on behalf of residents of the city of Tutaev of the Yaroslavl region with an appeal to deprive of the Deputy of Valentina Tereshkova status of “Honorary citizen” of the city. The authors recalled that last Tuesday, Tereshkova, “reading a prepared piece …
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At the end of October in the Swiss city of Lausanne took place 111 the General conference (GC) of the International Federation of aviation sports. This conference is the highest policymaking body of the FAI: defines the objectives, articles of organization, elects the Executive Council and the President. Every year …
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King of the Arab countries have received prestigious awards. Rector of Moscow state Institute of international relations Anatoly Torkunov said that Russia and Saudi Arabia play a significant role “in promoting stability in the Middle East and the entire Eurasian continent.” The king of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdul Aziz …
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Participation in contests will take about 200 fuzzies 30 different breeds. 4-5 March in Kyiv will take place a beauty contest for men the cat “Mr. Murr.” For the title of the gentlemen of the exhibition will compete cats of different breeds – from hairless to fluffy, from giant to …
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