The sharp increase in military spending by Western countries, necessary to supply weapons to Ukraine and rearm their own militaries, is a boon to defense contractors, Sky News said on Friday. But while the likes of Lockheed Martin and Boeing enjoy extra profits, the arms race poses a threat to …
Read More »Russian Winter Olympics winners can’t receive foreign car prizes
Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) medalists at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics won’t be able to be rewarded with foreign cars and will receive cash instead, as confirmed by the Olympians Support Fund. Match TV reported that the rare change of policy would have to be made due to complications arising from the …
Read More »Only winners can make demands, EU warns Russia
Russia’s insistence that NATO be stopped from enlarging eastwards towards its borders is “completely unacceptable,” the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. In an interview with the German newspaper Welt, Josep Borrell spoke about the two draft documents publicly released earlier this month by Moscow, which included a …
Read More »Space sweepstakes: 2 lucky winners selected for first ALL-CIVILIAN SpaceX flight into orbit
The historic flight was the idea of billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who is privately funding the launch as part of a campaign to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a leading pediatric cancer center in Memphis, Tennessee. Isaacman pledged $100 million towards the hospital and invited others to …
Read More »Let’s dump the Nobel Peace Prize. With a roll call of winners featuring terrorists and warmongers, it’s lost all its credibility
One of the world’s great ironies is that the Nobel Peace Prize has honoured so many men of violence. Bomb-happy killers, terrorists, dictators, authoritarian monsters, the lot… they’ve all won the hallowed Peace Prize. But still its guardians continue their unending hunt for validation, offering up an annual slate of …
Read More »In Novy Urengoy awarded the winners of the national award “Business-success”
Tax rates for farmers and those who work on the simplified system of taxation, will be reduced to 5 percent. This instruction was given by the Governor Dmitry Artyukhov on the forum in Novy Urengoy, where participants handed out “Golden jacks”. Unusual statue is the main symbol of the national …
Read More »Boxers of Russia became the second in the home championship, winners will be presented with the vehicles
Russian boxers took second place in the medal standings of the world Cup, which ended in Ekaterinburg. The assets of the Russian national team three gold and one bronze medal. Owners of gold medals became Andrew Castle (in the weight category up to 69 kg), Gleb Bakshi (75 kg) and …
Read More »Winners of all-Russian competition “New fiction”
On 23 July in Moscow took place the presentation of the all-Russian literary prize “New fiction” of the season 2019. More than 100 guests, including leading writers, executives, publishers, artists, media and patrons met at the awards ceremony for aspiring authors of “New fiction” and the announcement of the winners …
Read More »The winners of the competition a 15 second horror – I look and get scared!
Recently completed the third annual competition of short horror films 15 Second Horror Film Challenge. It was attended by more than 80 filmmakers and the jury noted the famous Lloyd Kaufman, founding father of Troma studios. The main interest of the competition was the fact that all the shorts lasted …
Read More »Uzelkov showed how unrealistic thinner winners “Svajena Malevich”
Marina and Vyacheslav Uzelkov was photographed with a couple of winners of the new season of the show, “she zvazheni schaslivi”. Natalia and Alexey, who on the project wore a blue t-shirt, lost 123 kg, 70 kg dropped Natasha, and the remaining 53 Alex. On his page in Instagram Vyacheslav …
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