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๐ Anti-Cafรฉ
An anti-cafรฉ (sometimes called a pay-per-minute cafรฉ or a time club) is a venue that offers working space, food and drink, where customers pay only for the time they spend there. Anti-cafรฉs became popular around 2011 in Russia and some CIS countries, with further independent anti-cafรฉs opening across the world. Anti-cafรฉs include the Ziferblat chain, founded by Russian writer Ivan Mitin in December 2010 in Moscow, the "Slow Time" cafรฉ in Wiesbaden opened in 2013, and "Dialogues" in Bangalore.
Anti-cafรฉs mostly target entrepreneurs, digital nomads, students, and creatives who need a cheap and convenient place to get their work done and meet other professionals. They can also be used by companies as a place give presentations and press conferences at low cost.
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- "Anti-Cafรฉ" | 2021-10-14 | 60 Upvotes 70 Comments
๐ Russian Domesticated Red Fox
The Russian domesticated red fox is a form of the wild red fox (Vulpes vulpes) which has been domesticated to an extent, under laboratory conditions. They are the result of an experiment which was designed to demonstrate the power of selective breeding to transform species, as described by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species. The experiment was purposely designed to replicate the process that had produced dogs from wolves, by recording the changes in foxes, when in each generation only the most tame foxes were allowed to breed. In short order, the descendant foxes became tamer and more dog-like in their behavior.
The program was started in 1959 in the Soviet Union by zoologist Dmitry Belyayev and it has been in continuous operation since. Today, the experiment is under the supervision of Lyudmila Trut, in Russia, at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk.
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- "Russian Domesticated Red Fox" | 2015-11-06 | 96 Upvotes 30 Comments
๐ Kola Superdeep Borehole
The Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russian: ะะพะปััะบะฐั ัะฒะตัั ะณะปัะฑะพะบะฐั ัะบะฒะฐะถะธะฝะฐ) is the result of a scientific drilling project of the Soviet Union in the Pechengsky District, on the Kola Peninsula. The project attempted to drill as deep as possible into the Earth's crust. Drilling began on 24 May 1970 using the Uralmash-4E, and later the Uralmash-15000 series drilling rig. Boreholes were drilled by branching from a central hole. The deepest, SG-3, reached 12,262 metres (40,230ย ft; 7.619ย mi) in 1989 and is the deepest artificial point on Earth. The borehole is 23 centimetres (9ย in) in diameter.
In terms of true vertical depth, it is the deepest borehole in the world. For two decades it was also the world's longest borehole in terms of measured depth along the well bore, until it was surpassed in 2008 by the 12,289-metre-long (40,318ย ft) Al Shaheen oil well in Qatar, and in 2011 by the 12,345-metre-long (40,502ย ft) Sakhalin-I Odoptu OP-11 Well (offshore from the Russian island of Sakhalin).
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- "Kola Superdeep Borehole" | 2018-06-18 | 57 Upvotes 67 Comments
๐ Bucha Massacre
In March 2022, a series of war crimes were committed by Russian occupation forces in the Ukrainian city of Bucha during the Battle of Bucha, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities said that more than 300 inhabitants of the town had been killed.
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- "Bucha Massacre" | 2022-04-04 | 57 Upvotes 61 Comments
๐ Z (Military Symbol)
"Z" is one of several symbols painted on military vehicles of the Russian Armed Forces involved in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The symbol has been used in Russian popular culture as a sign of support for the invasion. Displaying any of the symbols on vehicles in public is illegal in Kazakhstan.
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- "Z (Military Symbol)" | 2022-03-07 | 61 Upvotes 49 Comments
๐ Soviet Pilot Escapes from POW Camp by Stealing a German Bomber and Flying Home
Mikhail Petrovich Devyatayev (Russian: ะะธั ะฐะธะป ะะตััะพะฒะธั ะะตะฒััะฐะตะฒ; Moksha/Erzya: ะะธั ะฐะธะป ะะตััะพะฒะธั ะะตะฒััะฐะตะฒ; 8 July 1917 โ 24 November 2002) was a Soviet fighter pilot known for his incredible escape from a Nazi concentration camp on the island of Usedom, in the Baltic Sea.
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- "Soviet Pilot Escapes from POW Camp by Stealing a German Bomber and Flying Home" | 2021-01-18 | 75 Upvotes 33 Comments
๐ Subutai โ Primary military strategist of Genghis Khan
Subutai (Classical Mongolian: Sรผbรผgรคtรคi or Sรผbรผ'รคtรคi; Tuvan: ะกาฏะฑัะดัะน, [sybษหdษj]; Modern Mongolian: ะกาฏะฑััะดัะน, Sรผbeedei. [sสbeหหdษ]; Chinese: ้ไธๅฐ 1175โ1248) was an Uriankhai general, and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan and รgedei Khan. He directed more than 20 campaigns in which he conquered 32 nations and won 65 pitched battles, during which he conquered or overran more territory than any other commander in history. He gained victory by means of imaginative and sophisticated strategies and routinely coordinated movements of armies that were hundreds of kilometers away from each other. He is also remembered for devising the campaign that destroyed the armies of Hungary and Poland within two days of each other, by forces over 500 kilometers apart.
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- "Subutai โ Primary military strategist of Genghis Khan" | 2017-06-14 | 84 Upvotes 22 Comments
๐ United States military and prostitution in South Korea
During and following the Korean War, the United States military used regulated prostitution services in South Korean military camptowns. Despite prostitution being illegal since 1948, women in South Korea were the fundamental source of sex services for the U.S. military as well as a component of American and Korean relations. The women in South Korea who served as prostitutes are known as kijichon (๊ธฐ์ง์ด) women, also called as "Korean Military Comfort Women", and were visited by the U.S. military, Korean soldiers and Korean civilians. Kijich'on women were from Korea, Philippines, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Indonesia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, specifically Russia and Kazakhstan.
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- "United States military and prostitution in South Korea" | 2021-01-19 | 76 Upvotes 28 Comments
๐ Firehose of Falsehood
The firehose of falsehood, or firehosing, is a propaganda technique in which a large number of messages are broadcast rapidly, repetitively, and continuously over multiple channels (such as news and social media) without regard for truth or consistency. Since 2014, when it was successfully used by Russia during its annexation of Crimea, this model has been adopted by other governments and political movements around the world.
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- "Firehose of Falsehood" | 2022-01-02 | 68 Upvotes 18 Comments
- "Firehose of Falsehood" | 2021-05-28 | 14 Upvotes 2 Comments
๐ Stalin's Poetry
Before he became a Bolshevik revolutionary and the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin was a promising poet.
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- "Stalin's Poetry" | 2019-09-29 | 50 Upvotes 47 Comments