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Chernobyl - event, history, and the HBO tv documentary

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Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race | The Economist

Never mind the moon; look to low-Earth orbit | Leaders (2023)


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The hidden costs of cutting Russia off from SWIFT | The Economist

America’s foes would rush to alternatives, hastening its financial decline | Finance & economics (2022)


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Arctic shipper shows off a historical icebreaking voyage | The Independent Barents Observer

Watch two super-powerful vessels break their way through the Northern Sea Route in mid-winter. (2021)


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JetBrains: Czech Startup Founders Turn Billionaires Without VC Help - Bloomberg

Google picked JetBrains for key coding language for Android. Founders shunned VCs, bootstrapped to billion-dollar fortunes While investment fun... (2020)


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3 books reviewed - The Chernobyl Syndrome

On the night of April 25, 1986, during a planned maintenance shutdown at the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine, one of the four reactors ov... (2020)


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Melting Russian permafrost could speed up global warming and have a devastating impact on the planet

Rising temperatures are causing the frozen ground that covers large parts of the Earth to break up, adding to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (2019)


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What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong | The New Yorker

Masha Gessen writes about the truths and fictions of the HBO series “Chernobyl,” starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jessie Buckley, and Emil... (2019)


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Russia Bans 1.8 Million Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram

Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, banned today over 1.8 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google's cloud infrastructur... (2018)


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Russian athletes and the Olympics - The Economist explains

ON AUGUST 5th, during the ceremony to mark the opening of the Rio Olympics, each of the national teams will take the customary walk around the stad... (2018)


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Russia Won't Boycott Olympics Over Ban For Doping, Putin Says : The Two-Way : NPR

"Without any doubt, we will not declare any blockade, we will not prevent our Olympians from taking part," Russian President Vladimir Putin said on... (2018)


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The Lure of a Better Life, Amid Cold and Darkness - The New York Times

Norilsk, once a slave labor camp, now prospers as a source of palladium. Not bad, except for the two months of darkness and temperatures of minus 8... (2018)


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Remembering Laika, Space Dog and Soviet Hero

Sixty years ago, for the first time in history, an animal was launched into orbit. What is her legacy? (2017)


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The Soviet Union’s flawed rival to Concorde

BBC, 2017: "The world’s first supersonic airliner was not the Anglo-French Concorde but a Soviet design intended to show the world the superiority ... (2017)


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Why India and Russia Were Racing to the Moon’s South Pole | WSJ

India became the first country to successfully land on the moon's south pole with its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, just days after Russia’s Luna-25 cr... (2023)


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The Story of Tetris

In 1984, during the Cold War, a Russian programmer named Alexey Pajitnov created something special: A puzzle ga... (2018)


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This City in Siberia Could Become the Next Silicon Valley | Bloomberg

Hello World’s host Ashlee Vance traveled to Akademgorodok to see what this science city looks like in 2016. Where the labs of yesteryear have star... (2018)