Dmitri Medvedev

It’s difficult for me to write this blog, not because I came late, and reluctantly, to support the Trump candidacy, but rather because in…
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Most people here know my routine: sometime during the week, I open up my "finals" folder and sort through all the emails with articles…
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4.73/5 (15) And in the light of today's main blog's reference to Mr. Dmitri Medvedev's statements a month before the Chelyabinsk meteor incident, when…
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4.77/5 (35) While all this hacking and cyber warfare and geopolitical "tectonic shifts" have been going on "down here" on terra firma, there has…
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4.77/5 (30) This has been a week of very strange space news, and of course, the centerpiece of these stories has been President Obama's…
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4.83/5 (12) Yesterday, you'll recall, I blogged about the untimely death of Major General John Rossi, the USA's newly appointed "space commander", and I indicated that while the story of his death remains bland and non-commital,…
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5/5 (8) This article from Russia's TASS news agency was shared by Ms. M.W., and it contains a number interesting statements if one is willing to read between the lines a bit, and to place it…
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4.6/5 (10) Ms. K.F. sent this article to us, and it's worth pondering in the context of all the spate of space-related issues we're been looking at on this website, particularly with respect to the impending…
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4.4/5 (5) One of the things I suspect we can look forward to in 2016 - along with an ever-crazier geopolitical situation, if current trends continue - is the expansion of international space industry, and this…
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Heavy darkness befalls the North; the sun rarely emerges from between the clouds. This year, Russia has noticeably less street illumination, and the spirits are anything but festive. Only the whiteness of the snow and Christmas trees break the gloom and remind us of the forthcoming low point of the cosmic wheel, Yuletide, when days starts to wax and nights to wane. As this stellar event foretells the Nativity of our Savior, this is a period of hope after a very difficult year, all over the world.
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