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...them in the future. Opel employs around 26,000 workers in Germany, almost half of GM Europe's total workforce of 55,000. With Germany in the driving seat during the negotiations, politicians and trade unions in other European countries are concerned the new investor Magna, along with its Russian partners, will protect German jobs at the expense of other jobs. "There are going to be more tough negotiations with GM Europe and Magna," says Klaus Franz, the head of Opel's works council. "A very stony road lies ahead of us. Jobs will be cut, but we hope...
...Russian pianist Lev Vlasenko dazzled Harvard students with his smooth piano playing in a dimly lit Adams House Common room, the political tension between the virtuoso’s native USSR and the United States was hardly visible. At the informal concert, the students seemed to forget that their respective countries were at war and simply delighted in each other’s company. In 1959, when the Cold War was at its pinnacle, and the relationship between the U.S. and the USSR was frigid at best, a team of 12 Soviet delegates came to Harvard as part...
...picture out the window asked us to move,” he said. “But then we went out for dinner later and that was nice,” Nightingale added, gazing into Rinehart’s eyes. The couple met their freshman year in a Russian class. After getting to know each other while studying for the class in Weld, where they both lived, the two became fast friends and soon started dating. “Daniel’s always sweet to me. He’s a good guy and he makes me laugh...
...computers. A 15-year-old Canadian with the handle "mafiaboy" launched the first documented DoS attack in 2000, against numerous e-commerce sites, including eBay and Amazon.com, shutting some down and wreaking havoc that cost an estimated $1.7 billion. In 2007, entities believed to have been associated with the Russian government or its allies launched a DoS attack against Estonia during a dispute sparked by the removal of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a public park; the attacks crippled the country's digital infrastructure, paralyzing government and media sites and hammering the former Soviet republic's largest...
More than nine months after the Russian army moved in to help the enclave of South Ossetia to self-proclaimed independence from Georgia, the promised repairs to buildings gutted by fighting have failed to materialize. So did Sunday's elections in the impoverished region deliver a painful reckoning to the incumbent? Hardly. As expected, former wrestler Eduard Kokoity, first elected President in 2001 when South Ossetia was still firmly if unwillingly part of Georgia, was overwhelmingly confirmed in office in elections he described as "a test of the stability of our democracy...