The early 1930s represent some of the darkest years in Ukrainian history and was highlighted by a famine‚ that from 1932-1933‚ claimed the lives of up to six million Ukrainians. While it is counterproductive to declare that the sheer scale of devastation of the famine is greater than other massive twentieth century losses of human life‚ it is nonetheless strange why it is not as pervasive in the collective memory of humans as the Holocaust or Rwandan genocide is. Part of this is due to the fact that
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one of the largest in the USSR. It was located just outside of the town of Pripyat’‚ about 18 km northwest of the town of Chernobyl’. The plant was only 16 km from the border between the Ukrainian and Belorussian republics and roughly 110 km north of Kiev‚ the capital and largest city of Ukraine. Construction of the plant began in the 1970s‚ with reactor No. 1 commissioned in 1977‚ followed by No. 2 (1978)‚ No. 3 (1981)‚ and No. 4 (1983). Each reactor had an electricity-generating capacity of 1‚000
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* Environmental protection * Environmental protection is one of the main problems of today. Industrial civilisation is characterised by numerous factories and power stations‚ automobiles and aeroplanes. Technological progress improves people’s lives‚ but at the same time it causes numerous problems that were unimaginable in the past centuries. Through their daily activities people pollute and contaminate land‚ water and air. Today pollution has become a universal
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Three members of the Russian punk-rock rebel band‚ Pussy Riot‚ have been jailed for two years after staging an anti-Putin protest. The official reason for their incarceration has been officially listed as “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred (1).” The sentence has sparked intense global support for Pussy Riot‚ as well as increased opposition against the Russian government. The all-female band performed this protest in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior‚ Moscow’s main Orthodox cathedral.
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To be true to yourself in a world that is constantly making you something else is a great achievement All of us possess qualities that differentiate us from other human beings. These distinguishing features could be more or less highlighted in appearance‚ mindset or capabilities‚ but they will always persist and determine the nature of our personality. Unfortunately these characteristic attributes are deteriorating as humanity is moulding us into the “perfect person” influencing us to stray away
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The Family Romanov is a story about the history of the Romanov Family whose family ruled over Russia for three hundred years and what led to the fall of what they had built. The story goes into details about the family’s struggles and the people they were surrounded by. In the story it also gives you a sense of what is happening to the less fortunate peasants. Tsar Nicholas II was the richest Monarch in the world: his family wealth was once estimated at forty-five billion dollars. Forty-five billion
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Promenade melody for the first time since it had its own movement. This movement is soft and haunting‚ as is one is walking in a foggy forest alone and knows that something is wrong. It surprisingly ends on a more hopeful note. In the Great Gate of Kiev is powerful and aggressive at the beginning with a heavy focus on brass. It becomes light‚ allowing room for a variation of the Promenade theme that becomes more grand and triumphant with every repetition. It ends with a confident flourish from the
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CHAPTER 14 The Last Great Nomadic Changes: From Chinggis Khan to Timur CHAPTER SUMMARY The nomads of central Asia during the thirteenth century returned to center stage in world history. The Mongols ended or interrupted the great postclassical empires while extending the world network of that era. Led by Chinggis Khan and his successors‚ they brought central Asia‚ China‚ Persia‚ Tibet‚ Iraq‚ Asia Minor‚ and southern Russia under their control. The states formed dominated most of Asia for
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La Cosa Nostra and the Gambino Crime Family Jodiann K Gleason Southern New Hampshire University La Cosa Nostra (LCN) is an Italian/Sicilian organized crime or mafia family that performed illegal and corrupt activities in New York from the 1920’s and onward. Their activities started with prohibition and moved to include money laundering‚ gambling‚ loan sharking‚ extortion‚ labor and construction racketeering and a poultry monopoly just to name some of the major ones. Some would state
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Alexei Ratmansky was born on August 27‚ 1968 in Leningrad Russia (Alexei Ratmansky‚ 2016.). He started dancing at the young age of four to the sound of music‚ Alexei moved very amicably to the musical beats. At the age of ten he was enrolled in what was known as the Bolshoi Ballet but is now the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (Alexei Ratmansky‚ 2016). He and his classmates had grown to have tremendous respect for their teacher‚ Pyotr Pestov. He can recall how classes were like‚ he compared
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