Moscow will “notify [partnering countries] about its withdrawal from the ISS starting from 2025,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told TV channel Rossiya-1 on Sunday. He added that the country would hold consultations with other nations about future cooperation once the station ceased to function. The deputy prime minister’s …
Read More »Touchdown! Expedition 64 back on Earth after 6 months on International Space Station
The trio landed in Kazakhstan just before 8 am Moscow time (1 am Eastern), after executing the braking burn in earth’s atmosphere and gliding down for a smooth descent. Kud-Sverchkov, Ryzhikov, and Rubins arrived on the ISS in October 2020, after a record-speed ascent that took approximately three hours after …
Read More »The digital yuan could be just the shake up needed to democratize international commerce and dislodge the dollar from dominance
Right now, it’s only in a limited (albeit national level) test phase but Chinese officials hope to have it fully ready by the 2022 Winter Olympics set to take place in Beijing. Unsurprisingly, the US is taking a hard look at what exactly this might mean for the future. As …
Read More »Israel tells International Criminal Court it doesn’t have authority to investigate crimes in Palestinian territories
“Israel has decided to respond to the notice sent by the ICC and make clear it is acting without having the jurisdiction to do so,” the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, in a statement carried by Israeli media on Thursday. “Moreover, it should be noted that Israel is …
Read More »‘A miracle didn’t happen’: Armenian basketball in mourning after body of ex-international lost in conflict is found after 5 months
In a Facebook post, the governing body said that Mkrtchyan’s loved ones had hoped he would return. “For six months, all his friends and relatives were waiting for his return,” they added, paying their respects to the former member of their under-20s team. “But a miracle didn’t happen. “The Armenian Basketball Federation …
Read More »Russian cosmonaut shows how Suez Canal looks from International Space Station (PHOTOS)
“You can see it now from the International Space Station,” the cosmonaut wrote on Instagram, adding that the images show how small tugboats were trying to move the giant vessel. Посмотреть эту публикацию в Instagram Публикация от Sergey Kud-Sverchkov (@kudsverchkov) The snapshots give a good look at how the 400-meter-long …
Read More »The ‘Rules-based international order’ is dead & unless West finds new way to accommodate Russia & China, it will reap a whirlwind
Both disastrous encounters have demonstrated that after years of animosity it is not possible to return to the previous format for cooperation. Rudyard Kipling famously once wrote “east is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet.” That doesn’t have to be true, but it’s a fair …
Read More »Russia set for showdown with international law amid $57bn Yukos oil empire battle & ruling over jailed opposition figure Navalny
An international legal battle over the collapsed Yukos oil empire has been raging for more than a decade in courts across the world, most notably in the Netherlands and the US. A record-breaking $57 billion legal bill now hangs in the balance. Former shareholders in the now-defunct company accuse the …
Read More »International airline body hails ‘successful’ use of health passport while industry tussles over how much intrusion is enough
The first traveler to use the IATA’s purpose-built Travel Pass digital health certificate successfully landed at London’s Heathrow Airport on Wednesday on a flight from Singapore, the airline industry body announced in a press release, gushing that the technology would “securely, conveniently and efficiently help travelers and governments” to keep …
Read More »Three UNKNOWN microbes found on International Space Station may help grow plants on MARS
The known microbe was discovered nestled in an old high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter returned to Earth in 2011. Two were found in an overhead panel of the ISS research station, while the third was found on the surface of its dining table. The first was identified as Methylorubrum rhodesianum, …
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