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...seems fishy. Whether Russia was coerced into taking back the missiles and covering the situation up or the missiles were forcibly removed, they would not be reported in the inventory following the ship’s recovery. Furthermore, the first whistleblower on the ship’s secret cargo, Mikhail Voitenko, a maritime expert and editor of the Russian maritime journal “Sovfracht,” has been fired and induced to flee to Istanbul after various threats. Voitenko’s forced exile only adds weight to his claim...
...Even from the basic facts, without assumptions, it is clear that this was not just piracy," says Mikhail Voitenko, editor of the Russian maritime journal Sovfrakht, which has been tracking unusual incidents on the high seas for decades. "I've never seen anything like this. These are some of the most heavily policed waters in the world. You cannot just hide a ship there for weeks without government involvement...
...organization is doing more to green New Orleans than Global Green USA, the American arm of the international environmental organization that was founded by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. That begins with the Holy Cross project, an entire sustainable village being built in the city's flood-damaged Lower Ninth Ward with the help of Home Depot's corporate foundation. Eventually the village will include five sustainable homes along with an 18-unit green apartment building and a community center. Three homes have been completed so far, including one that is serving as a de facto visitors center. The point...
...prided himself on creations as fragmented as he believed society to be. His pieces--performed worldwide and with the company he founded in 1953--often divided the stage into autonomous zones of activity. His dedication to abstraction became his trademark; Mikhail Baryshnikov once described the way Cunningham dancers cover space as a "kind of organized chaos...
...weeks, the East Germans had been trying to figure out a way to prevent Jackson's moonwalk through West Berlin from becoming political dynamite for East German youth. These were the days of Perestroika, when the Soviet Union's iron grip on Eastern Europe was slipping and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was becoming a source of hope for reformers in the East and the West. The Stasi was determined not to repeat the events of the year before, when East Germans amassed at the Wall to listen to a concert by Genesis, David Bowie and Eurythmics in West Berlin...