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The active phase of the international Slavic Brotherhood tactical exercises kicked off outside Belarusian city of Brest on Monday.
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Holography Exhibition in the city of Volgograd,Russia (2012)
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'The United States of Ukraine': A country on the verge of realising its potential
Advisor to the mayor of Lviv and managing partner on the city's new creative cluster project Ilya Kenningstein told us about his vision for a future Ukraine. He argues that the sooner the country decentralises power, the sooner things can move forward. Having worked and lived in Israel for many years, Kenningstein shared with us his insights on what Ukraine can learn, if anything, from the Jewish State's experience of living in a situation of near-permanent conflict.
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From Plastic to Plasticity; From Multiplicity to Negotiation
Shirley Tse will share the trajectory of her practice in the last 20 years that leads to her solo presentation “Stakeholders” at the Hong Kong Pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale. She is the first woman to present a solo show in the Hong Kong Pavilion at the Biennale.
Tse has dedicated her practice to visualizing heterogeneity through sculpture, installation, photography, and text. From presenting differences on the same plane, to integrating them into a whole through negotiation, strategies are as various as putting competing aesthetics under the same roof, examining the semiotics of plastics, calling attention to the interstitial, expanding the language of movement, conflating scales, destabilizing categories, using found objects as suspension of subjectivity and researching concurrent narratives.
Tse received her Bachelor of Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong Fine Arts Department and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Art Center College of Art and Design.
Tse’s work has been exhibited worldwide at venues including the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California; Osage, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom; ARCO Madrid, Spain; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California; Palazzo dell’Arengo, Rimini, Italy; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; The Biennale Ceara America, Brazil; MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, New York; The New Museum, New York; The Biennale of Sydney, Australia; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; TENT, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Para Site, Hong Kong; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; and many others.
Sponsored by the Sculpture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
All lectures are free and held in deSalle Auditorium at Cranbrook Art Museum.
Palami Media Facade, day time
Palami Media Facade is placed over parking lot.
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RUSSIA: PRESIDENT YELTSIN REPORTEDLY SIGNS TREATY WITH BELARUS
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Russian news agency reports indicate that President Boris Yeltsin has approved a draft of a treaty for Russian union with neighbouring Belarus.
The draft treaty has been welcomed by the Communist leader, Gennady Zyuganov but analysts say that this union is just a reaction to NATO expansion eastward.
According to a leaked report the two states would remain independent but co-ordinate their foreign, economic and military policies closely.
It's almost a year to the day that the presidents of Russia and Belarus put their signatures to a treaty for more co-operation between the two former soviet states.
Its acronym the U-S-R, standing for the Union of Sovereign Republics, seemed to be an eerie reminder of the USSR.
Now, on the anniversary of that treaty, the two men will meet again to sign an agreement which will bring the two nations even closer together on political and military matters.
According to news agency reports the draft makes provisions for citizens of both countries to have common citizenship and that the union would be open for other independent countries.
This further step towards union was announced last week by President Lukashenko when he came to Moscow for the C-I-S summit.
Kremlin sources said liberals in the government had mounted a rearguard action to prevent Yeltsin signing the document, which they fear could allow the hard-line Lukashenko to gain a slice of power in Russia.
Many Lukashenko critics claimed he was using the union treaty as backdoor access to the Russian presidency, although he's denied this.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
Today we're not talking here about one state, what we mean is a union of equal states. I don't know why the issue of who wear's the Crown should be raised. No one in Belarus claims the crown, I've said this on several occasions already as long as the Belarussian people trust me I will remain the president of that great Slavic state. and secondly no one has asked me to lead Russia.
SUPER CAPTION: Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus president
Although there have been voices of opposition to the union by the lower house of parliament - they were mainly concerned with increasing Lukashenko's power.
However the Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov believed it was a positive way forward for both nations.
SOUNDBITE:
As concerns Russia and Belarussia we have nothing to argue about we had lived together for centuries. We were friends and we still have friendly relations. We welcome the move which we think is correct. It's a small step in the right direction for strengthening relations no one is laying claim to other people's sovereignty or independence.
SUPER CAPTION: Gennady Zyuganov, Communist Leader
The West has accused Lukashenko of human rights violations for clamping down on freedom of speech.
Several anti-presidential demonstrations have ended in violence and bloodshed as police tried to arrest protestors.
He has arrested opposition leaders, last week he expelled a Russian TV journalist and has blocked Russian news programmes in Belarus because he disliked their coverage of his country.
But still, Russia wishes to form a union with Lukashenko.
Analysts believe it's a strategic move following Russia's inability to stop the expansion of NATO eastward.
SOUNDBITE:
So this may be regarded as something which was partly initiated by the prospect of NATO expansion but which may acquire its own dimensions and consolidation of the post-Soviet space under Russian guidance.
SUPER CAPTION: Viktor Kremenyuk, Political Expert
Despite a pledge not to go ahead without a referendum in Belarus on the treaty, the two leaders seemed to have abandoned the norms of democracy.
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Vivid Sydney 2014 - Braza Darling Harbour - Night View Light Festival HD 114
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Vivid Sydney Light Festival transforms the city into a wonderland of light art sculptures and grand-scale projections for every body to enjoy.
Sydney Festival of Light offers a cutting-edge contemporary music program and the spectacular illumination of city iconic architecture including Harbour Bridge, Luna Park, Darling Harbour and the sails of Sydney Opera House..
Vivid Sydney - Light Festival is a World Wide most spectacular International event.
Vivid Sydney - Festival of Light was inaugurated in 2009, an initiative of Tourism NSW (currently Destination NSW) to boost the number of foreign tourists.
Suspected mass graves discovered dating from Stalinist era
St. Petersburg, Russia - 23 September 2002
1. Medium shot Memorial volunteers in office in St Petersburg.
2. Various looking through index cards
3. Cut away picture of Andrei Sakharov ( former Soviet dissident )
4. Wide of office with
5. Irina Flege looking through maps
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Irina Flege, head of the Department History of the Memorial Group:
This is the area that we already inspected. This point is the first mark (of a found grave). Right now I am looking at an area where we have to work today. The guys will have to check out this part of the forest.
Toksovo, Russia - 23 September 2002
7. Memorial volunteers walking through forest
8. Irina Flege looking at map in forest
9. Volunteers digging
10. Pan down from trees to up graves
11. Volunteers walking through forest
12. Volunteer pulling skull
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Mikhail Samon, volunteer:
We find most of the skulls to be in many different pieces. When the bullet exits the skull it usually destroys it.
File - black and white pictures from the 1930s
14. Various of Stalin
15. Various of train arriving at gulag
16. People walking into camp
St Petersburg 23 September 2002
17. Set up shot of Victor Masaitic, his father was oppressed during Stalin's times
18. Close up Soviet documents stating that his father was oppressed
19. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Victor Masaitic, son of victim:
When I woke up there were already strangers sitting in our room of a communal flat where we lived. There were our apartment building administrator, a military man and through the glass I could see a soldier with a rifle standing behind the door. There were searching our room, they even looked under my pillow saying that they were looking for weapons. Afterwards, he (my father) was taken away. I fell asleep. I was only 10 year of old.
20. Black and white photo
21. Close up Masaitic's mother pan to close up Masaitics' father
22. Photo of Masaitics' father
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Volunteers working with the rights group Memorial spent five years searching a forest near St. Petersburg before finding the site of several suspected mass graves.
The graves provide evidence of what human rights activists believe is a vast burial ground for victims of Stalin's Great Terror.
So far, the volunteers from Memorial have sent nine sets of remains found in the forest in Toksovo, about 20 miles (12 kilometres) northwest of St. Petersburg, to a forensic laboratory for tests identifying features including age, sex, cause and time of death.
Memorial has come across other, indirect evidence - including official documents and aerial photos showing tire tracks in part of the Rzhevsk range, now overgrown with trees and shrubs - that indicates the approximately 30,000 missing victims were buried there.
They could not have been killed by the Nazis, Memorial says, because the German forces did not reach this area in World War II.
The only other known mass grave in the St. Petersburg area, near the village of Levashyovo, is believed to contain the remains of up to 8,500 people, according to drivers who brought the victims to the execution place in 1937-38, the height of the Terror.
The drivers were questioned by the KGB in 1965, during a period when the Soviet authorities were beginning to admit to the scale of Stalin's crimes.
Yet there was no trace of tens of thousands of other victims who were rounded up in and around Leningrad, as St. Petersburg was known in Soviet times, for alleged crimes against the state.
According to official Soviet-era data, 39,488 people from the region were executed between Aug. 5, 1937 and Nov. 16, 1938. Almost 7,000 people vanished in 1930-1936.
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Eastern Bloc economies | Wikipedia audio article
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The Eastern Bloc (also known as the Socialist Bloc, Communist Bloc and Soviet Bloc) was the group of Communist-controlled states stretching from Central and Eastern Europe to East and Southeast Asia largely controlled by the Soviet Union during the Cold War in opposition to the Western Bloc led by the United States. The term generally includes the USSR and its satellite states in the Comecon, including Vietnam and its satellites Laos and Kampuchea, North Korea, and China (before 1961.) Cuba is included as well after 1961, but demonstrated independence from Soviet policy following the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Widespread Soviet hegemony ended with the success of the Revolutions of 1989 against the Warsaw Pact, and the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union brought the Eastern Bloc and the Cold War to an end.
During Joseph Stalin's lifetime, Soviet control over the Eastern Bloc was tested but never seriously challenged by the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état and Tito–Stalin Split over control of Yugoslavia, the 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution and Chinese and North Korean involvement in the Korean War against the United Nations. After his death in 1953, the Korean War was halted but not settled and anti-Soviet sentiment sparked the East German uprising. The Eastern Bloc started to break apart in 1956, when new leader Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech denouncing Stalin helped spark the anti-Soviet Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which was suppressed by a Soviet invasion, and the Sino–Soviet Split with Mao Zedong's China, which gave North Korea and North Vietnam more independence from both, and facilitated the Soviet–Albanian split. The Cuban Missile Crisis preserved the Cuban Revolution from rollback by the United States, but Fidel Castro became increasingly independent of Soviet rule afterwards, most notably in its 1975 intervention in Angola. That year, the fall of former French Indochina to communism following the end of the Vietnam War gave the Eastern Bloc renewed confidence which had been frayed by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev's 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia to suppress the Prague Spring, which had led to Albania withdrawing from the Pact, briefly aligning with Mao Zedong's China until the Sino-Albanian split.
Under the Brezhnev Doctrine, the Soviet Union reserved the right to intervene in other Communist countries. In response, China moved towards the United States following a 1969 border war which almost went nuclear, and later reformed and liberalized its economy, while the Eastern Bloc stagnated economically behind the capitalist First World. Brezhnev's invasion of Afghanistan nominally expanded the Eastern Bloc, but the war proved unwinnable and too costly for the Soviets, challenged in Eastern Europe by civil resistance in Poland. In the late 1980s, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev pursued policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) to reform the Eastern Bloc and end the Cold War, which brought forth unrest throughout the bloc. Unlike previous Soviet leaders in 1953, 1956, and 1968, Gorbachev refused to use force to end the 1989 Revolutions against Marxist-Leninist rule in Eastern Europe. The fall of the Berlin Wall and end of the Warsaw Pact spread nationalist and liberal ideals throughout the Soviet Union, which would soon fall itself at the end of 1991. Conservative communist elites attempted to turn back liberal reforms and movements, which hastened the end of Marxist-Leninist rule in Eastern Europe but preserved it in China.
Though the Soviet Union and its rival the United States considered Europe the most important front of the Cold War, during the Cold War, the term Eastern Bloc was often used interchangeably with the term Second World. This broadest usage of the term would include not only Maoist China and Cambodia, but short-lived Soviet satellites such as East Turkestan Republic (1944-1949), the People's Repub ...
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Ukraine conflict drags on with no end in sight
(8 Sep 2016) The balaclava-clad officer's summation of the war in eastern Ukraine is terse with weariness.
We stand in place. We shoot over there, they shoot back from over there, Mkhail Gaiduk said. It's just burning up time.
In the area that Gaiduk calls over there, territory controlled by Russia-baked separatists, a rebel using the nom de guerre 'Chester' agrees: Everybody is tired of this pointless war.
A cease-fire signed two years ago was supposed to have ended the fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russia-backed rebels.
So was a cease-fire last year.
A temporary truce called for the beginning of the new school year, from 1 September 2016, briefly tamped down the fighting - the Ukrainian side reported only one soldier and one rebel were killed on Tuesday - but that relative calm is clearly fragile; Ukraine also claimed rebels fired some 90 mortar rounds at troops in the Mariupol region, one of the war's tensest areas.
More than 9,500 people have been killed in the fighting that began in April 2014, according to United Nations figures, but despite the carnage there's little expectation it will actually stop anytime soon.
Ukraine says it will propose making the start-of-school cease-fire permanent at a meeting of conflict negotiators on Wednesday in Minsk, Belarus.
The Minsk Protocol of September 2014, signed by Ukraine, Russia and rebel representatives, called for an end to the fighting.
That agreement frayed so fast that five months later a new round of negotiations - this time including France and Germany - were held in the Belarusian capital.
Although the agreement coming from that meeting had a firmer grip and saw both sides pull back heavy weaponry from the front lines for a time, other provisions weren't met; attacks resumed and escalated.
As awful as the full-scale war was, some on Ukraine's front lines found it preferable to the seemingly endless grind of today's smaller clashes.
In 2014, we suffered losses, but we won, we went ahead. We squeezed them, we beat them, they were afraid of us, said Ukrainian sniper who gave his name only as Corporal. Now we're bearing the same losses, but standing still.
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Smolensk
Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, 360 kilometers west-southwest of Moscow. Population: 326,861 (2010 Census); 325,137 (2002 Census); 341,483 (1989 Census).
The walled city in the center of Smolensk was destroyed several times throughout its long history because it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler. Today, Smolensk is noted for electronics, textiles, food processing, and diamond faceting.
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Chernobyl: 30 Years Later
World Affairs Council of Western Michigan presents this first-hand look at touring the region affected by the disaster in Chernobyl.
Russia: Ukrainian embassy egged in Moscow
Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow, on Saturday night, to protest against an attack on a Russian 'Rossotrudnichestvo' by Ukrainian nationalists in Kiev.
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House Impeachment Inquiry Hearing - Hill & Holmes Testimony
Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council senior director for Europe and Russia, and David Holmes, counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine testify at a House Intelligence Committee impeachment hearing.
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Stalinist architecture | Wikipedia audio article
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Stalinist architecture, mostly known in the former Eastern bloc as Stalinist Empire style (Russian: Сталинский Ампир, translit. Stalinskiy Ampir) or Socialist Classicism, is a term given to architecture of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of the Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khrushchev condemned excesses of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture. Stalinist architecture is associated with the socialist realism school of art and architecture.