Tourists visiting the Ukrainian ghost town of Pripyat near Chernobyl started the Ferris wheel
The production of the US F-22 fighter jet has been discontinued. The notorious F-35 has at least 91 defects, according to Pentagon representative Michael Gilmore. It is believed that the aircraft will be brought to a normal condition no earlier than in 2021
The Moscow Kremlin is the world's largest medieval fortress that has survived to this day. Contrary to popular beliefs, Ivan the Terrible was not a bloodthirsty tyrant. In Russia, there are at least 15 secret cities. In tsarist Russia before 1917, one could buy a revolver in a shop as freely as one could buy a loaf of bread
Sustainable Peace is a concept being discussed by the UNO since the term appeared in 2015. Yet to attain sustainable peace, we need a world community in which countries renounce the imperialist, intrusive approach, cease invading people and sponsoring wars and coups, concentrating instead on development.
Israel will do everything possible to prevent the creation of a Shiite corridor between Iran and Syria, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said. To give some weight to the warning, Israel struck a powerful missile blow on positions of the Syrian army. The balance of forces in the region is changing, but not in Israel's favour
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Russia may conduct a test of the prototype of the new intercontinental ballistic missile known as Sarmat in October 2017
The engine, if it is real, can cut the time required for a flight to Mars to ten weeks. A power plant based on the EmDrive engine would make it possible to reach the edge of the solar system in a few months, rather than decades
9/11Truth.Org's Michael 'Mike' Berger says that, "The endless "War on Terror,"...radical changes in domestic and foreign policies, including curtailing the civil liberties of Americans, have been justified by the 9/11 attacks. And yet, the story put forward by the government of how the attacks unfolded contains hundreds of lies.
The Russian authorities may deprive US diplomats of a possibility to park their vehicles on specially designated places in Moscow and other cities of Russia. Interestingly, there is no such possibility provided for Russian diplomats in the United States at all. Moscow is studying the conditions in which Russian agencies work in the US
All developed countries of the world are in debt to the armpits. The amount of the national debt of France is 98.84% of GDP, Spain - 98.47%, Belgium - 106.52%, Portugal - 127,33%, Italy - 131,71%. Japan holds the record with 250.91%. In fact, the Americans can raise the limit of their national debt as many times as they want
Putin's team: Looking for successor
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Breitling Jet Team: Art of aerobatics
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Irma batters the Carribbean, takes more lives in Florida
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Harvey floods Texas
Kilauea: The youngest Hawaiian volcano
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BLAST - Bullying Lies Arms Subversion Terrorism, the ABC of Washington's foreign policy whose modus operandi is arrogance, belligerance and chauvinism. We can apply the BLAST analysis to each and every one of Washington's interactions with sovereign states in the last fifty years, an ingrained policy mix of incompetence and sheer evil.
In emergency situations, the European Commission can make temporary decisions that do not comply with EU laws, but are binding for all EU countries, whose opinions the European Commission may simply disregard. Does it bring up associations with "Soviet dictatorship" in Eastern Europe? The USSR could not even think about such extreme decisions
Israel's interest in the Russian machine is particularly interesting. As is known, back in 1967, after the Six-Day War, Israel, a very young country back then, began to use captured Soviet armoured vehicles. Israel had seized about 300 Soviet tanks with unspent ammunition and minor damage directly on the battlefield