UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly plans to restore use of imperial measurements to mark Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, potentially shoring up support from pro-Brexit voters in the wake of his Partygate scandal. Johnson is expected to announce that British shops will be free to sell their goods by imperial …
Read More »‘Racism, imperial hegemony & neo-Nazism’: Russian Foreign Ministry slams suggestion that EU shouldn’t recognize Sputnik V vaccine
Writing on Telegram, Maria Zakharova criticized France’s foreign minister, Clément Beaune, who told TV channel France 2 on Thursday that those who were inoculated with Russian or Chinese vaccines should be shut out of the EU. “Unacceptable statements,” she said. “It is a hybrid of racism, imperial hegemony, and neo-Nazism: …
Read More »The UK overestimates its own appeal in opening its doors to Hong Kongers… it’s a move based on imperial nostalgia
Sunday marks the start of the UK government’s British National Overseas (BNO) scheme for Hong Kongers, giving those in the Chinese city who hold BNO passports the opportunity to move to Britain via a five-year visa, which can become a path to citizenship. Up to 300,000 residents in the former …
Read More »The idea of Imperial revenge and absorption of Belarus will gain a second wind
Forecast for the development of the situation in Minsk and Belarus is negative. The protest potential of mass discontent, the weariness of the regime is obvious. As outrage from clumsy and clumsily held a vote, where the desire to push, to push the Leader at least a carcass, even …
Read More »Cosplay Imperial policy
In the story of the abduction of Ruslan Samedinova and his actual expulsion on the New Earth there are several interwoven stories. On the one hand, it is about revealing the neglect of the officials who took this decision, citizen’s right to personal integrity, judicial protection or the freedom of …
Read More »A new genus of spiders was named in honor of Imperial stormtroopers
Spiders of the family barotropically were previously found only in the Northern and Central parts of the South American continent. In Colombia, scientists found and described eight spiders that earlier this area was not seen. Six of them became members of the new species, but four of them formed a …
Read More »The return of the Imperial anthem in Russia ridiculed caustic caricature
New job Sereia Elkin. Renowned artist and cartoonist Sergei Elkin in a befitting manner reacted to the idea of a return to the Russian Imperial anthem “God save the Tsar”. In particular, in a network there was a vivid caricature of Elkin. It depicts two members, which are near the …
Read More »The last Imperial dynasty: the portraits of Chinese 1870-ies. Photo
Traditional Chinese characters – the poor, the workers and the representatives of high society.Austrian Baron was one of the first photographers who went to China and made these portraits of local people during the reign of the last Imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty. Baron Raimund von Stillfried (Raimund von Stillfried) …
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