That ability was front and center in Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate, where Harris told bold fib after fib with scarcely a blink and got little pushback from Mike Pence. In the end, she walked off relatively unscathed and, of course, won praise from her adoring mainstream media, which has …
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From the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered every fifth citizen of the Byelorussian SSR — 2.2 million people. It’s more than the population of present-day Minsk. 30 years after the tragedy written hundreds of books and articles. Movies were also. But American TV series “Chernobyl” has shocked …
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On 1 July, during bathymetric measurements on one of the research deep-sea submersibles, the Russian defense Ministry, a fire occurred that killed 14 sailors. In the mean the official statement of the Ministry of defence said that the incident occurred in Russian territorial waters, and the machine is now at …
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