Word: russian
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...points, thereby snubbing one another. But since Eurovision has no plans to reveal which national juries voted for which countries, its actual effect is difficult to determine. In any event, it's likely the East would have voted for Rybak anyway; he was born in Minsk and speaks fluent Russian, and in recent weeks he has become a media darling in the Russian-speaking world...
...race heats up - with China and India joining the U.S., Europe and Russia in the quest to be the first to build a moon base or put a man on Mars - Russia's government has done more than just revamp its space museum. In 2007, it founded Rosnanotekh, the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation; last year, the government announced tentative plans to abandon its current space base in Kazakhstan and build a new one in the Russian far east; and in March, it launched an effort to design a new moon rocket. (See pictures of animals in space...
...monitors the progress of the space station in real time via video link. Most of the museum, however, is made up of the usual look-but-don't-touch exhibits. A full-size model of the iconic Sputnik satellite is suspended from the ceiling, while the tiny capsule that Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin used to orbit the Earth rests on a pedestal. In two glass cases at the entrance, the stuffed bodies of Belka and Strelka, the first dogs to return to Earth alive after a space flight, sit with their heads cocked inquisitively. Some of the halls are lined...
...draft form for over a year - as a result of the global financial crisis. "The figures were removed to reduce the liability of the government for their performance," Vyacheslav Senchagov, a member of the Scientific Council of the Security Council who was not involved in writing the paper, told Russian daily Kommersant...
...editors: In discussing NATO’s efforts to protect Georgia from further Russian aggression (“Exercising Power in Georgia,” Opinion, May 13), Ellen C. Bryson offers readers much information that is incomplete and misleading. Ms. Bryson fails to inform readers that Russia has recently stood alone against the entire Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to block impartial observers from monitoring the disputed border between Russia and Georgia. Thus, it is Russia that leaves NATO with no alternative other than military confrontation. She fails to acknowledge that Russia has played...