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30 juillet 2014

The Belarusians fighting on both sides of the Ukraine conflict

For years, Belarusians have been divided over whether the future of their country should involve closer relations with Russia or the European Union. Belarus is tied to Russia politically, economically and even linguistically. Under Moscow's sphere of...

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Tags: Ukraine, EU, influence, Belarus, volunteers

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29 juillet 2014

Réfugiés : le coût humain du conflit

Toute guerre, clandestine ou non, justifiée ou non, a un prix. Un prix en vies humaines (près de 2 000 tués depuis le début des affrontements en Ukraine, et des milliers de blessés), mais aussi en existences bouleversées. Une nouvelle carte publiée par...

Posté par emmanuelq2 à 19:31 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Ukraine, Réfugiés, déplacement, population

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27 juillet 2014

Eccentric Math Genius Ditches Russia for Sweden

Mathematician Grigory Perelman, famous for solving a Millennium Prize Problem and turning down the award, has moved to Sweden, a Russian newspaper reported. Perelman led a reclusive life with his mother in her apartment in St. Petersburg in recent years....

Posté par emmanuelq2 à 19:15 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Perelman, St Petersburg, maths

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23 juillet 2014

Telegraph and TV channel criticised over crash reports

A Russian TV channel accused of acting as a mouthpiece for the Kremlin is facing an investigation by Britain’s broadcasting watchdog for its coverage of the destruction of the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet. The Daily Telegraph was separately facing...

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Tags: Ukraine, tv, pro-Russians rebels, Malaysian airlines, propaganda

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22 juillet 2014

Robots Among Us

The term “robot” was introduced by Czech playwright Karel Capek in his play about humanlike machines. In Czech the original word “robota” means grunt work or hard labor. When we were kids, we all dreamed of a time in future, when robots will live among...

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Tags: Asimov, Robots, animal, anthropomorphism, machine

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17 juillet 2014

One Born Every Minute

Лохануться: to make a stupid mistake, slang I haven’t checked The Word’s Worth mailbox in a few weeks … let’s see … lots of questions about language and current events. For example, “If France can outlaw English words, why can’t Russia?” signed by Ivan...

Posté par emmanuelq2 à 19:16 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Language, translation

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16 juillet 2014

Fierce Battles Continue in Eastern Ukraine

Border tensions rise after Ukrainian officials said they suspected Russia had carried out the airstrike that killed civilians in Snizhne on Tuesday. Earlier in the week, a Ukrainian military transport plane was shot down near the Russian border, and new...

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Tags: Ukraine, Donetsk, Slavyansk

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15 juillet 2014

A subway derails in Moscow

MOSCOW — A morning commute ended in darkness, smoke and mayhem for passengers on the Moscow metro on Tuesday when a train derailed underground, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 100 others. Witnesses described being suddenly heaved out...

Posté par emmanuelq2 à 22:32 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Moscow, Public transportation, accident, metro

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7 juillet 2014

Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Foreign Minister Under Gorbachev, Is Dead at 86

Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who as Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s foreign minister helped hone the “new thinking,” foreign and domestic, that transformed and ultimately rent the Soviet Union, then led his native Georgia through its turbulent start as an independent...

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Tags: Gorbachev, Shevanardze, perestroika

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6 juillet 2014

To Be A Russian

For the past several months, through a series of photographic portraits, I set out to explore the unique and often strange ways people in Russia think and feel about the motherland. I know, from growing up in the former Soviet Union and studying the region’s...

Posté par emmanuelq2 à 23:29 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Etats-Unis, Motherland, patriotisme, pays

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