This paper was published in IEEE Spectrum, March 2000, V37, Number 3.
The end of the Cold War brought with it the hope, and even the expectation, that the dreaded nuclear sword of Damocles would no longer hang over the heads of Russians, Americans, and, indeed, over all the world's peoples. Yet 10 years after the Berlin Wall was torn down, that hope seems further from being realized than before. Instead of the bold visions enunciated by President Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan--not to speak of the citizens and scientists urging them on--the world now witnesses foot-dragging on conclusion of agreements, nitpicking and haggling over details, and a deterioration of trust and even mutual comprehension.
Sadly, the system of nuclear restraints embodied in treaties and tacit understandings during the Cold War is very nearly defunct. The U.S. Senate has rejected the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and the Russian Duma has refused to ratify the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start 2). Meanwhile, the two countries are sparring acrimoniously over whether to renegotiate the 1972 treaty banning missile defenses, which both Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton only in 1997 described as a "cornerstone" of arms control--as did their foreign ministers in January 1999.
Meanwhile, the strategic nuclear forces of the two countries remain on hair-trigger alert, as if the Cold War were still in full swing, while nuclear smuggling has become a critical global issue. This would all be bad enough in a world otherwise free of problems; but in the world as it is, age-old differences arising from geopolitical position, economic stakes, and clashing values are bound to reassert themselves sooner or later.
Keeping channels of communication open between adversaries.
Encouraging the development of force structures (weapons system portfolios) that would enhance stability in times of crisis.
Reducing pressures to engage in arms competition.
Reassuring the public that something was being done about the nuclear threat, so as to keep alarmist and destructive political pressures at a minimum.
That system of treaties and tacit understandings, while it did not progress far enough during the Cold War to prevent each superpower from deploying tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, at least moderated the rivalry. Whether it now can be brought back from its current near-death state is a question to which there is no clear answer.
The effects of that festering uncertainty will not be confined to relations between Russia and the United States. Their failure to strengthen the nuclear restraint regime during the past seven years, unless corrected in the next year or two, can only be a weakening of global norms against nuclear proliferation--just as regional pressures to build powerful, modern armed forces are rising.
India and Pakistan already have blown a large hole in the nuclear nonproliferation and test-ban regimes. The two countries think of themselves as putting the principles of mutual assured destruction to work--that very same MAD doctrine that seemed to help maintain peace during the Cold War. What they omit from the equation is that they have fought three full-fledged wars since independence whereas the United States and Russia never allowed a direct confrontation of their armies.
Just as disquieting are instabilities spreading in East Asia. A North Korean ballistic missile test in 1998, and the U.S. and Japanese responses to it, have stimulated public and private discussions in Japan and throughout the region about future defenses and the role of nuclear weapons. South Korea seems to have concluded that an indigenous ballistic missile deterrent on its own soil is necessary, and the sharing of missile defense technology with Taiwan has been broached. The People's Republic of China is deeply aggrieved by that prospect, and concerned that the U.S. plan to build a national defense system, as it is advertised, is capable of neutralizing China's small long-range nuclear deterrent. In response, China may build mobile, multi-warhead intercontinental ballistic missiles--admittedly it might anyway, but prospects for a happy outcome are worsened by the changing balance of incentives and disincentives.
Some, to be sure, argue that arms control is simply the wrong paradigm for contemporary U.S.-Russian transactions, that it is an outmoded approach to the achievement of strategic stability. It is true that classical arms control tends to presuppose an adversarial relationship (after all, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] and East-Bloc countries did not try to reduce armaments among themselves). Perhaps this is what U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had in mind when she said that worries about the current U.S. ballistic missile defense program amounted to "reviving old problems."
Left out of account in that view, however, is that no other methods and institutions that could promote the functional equivalent of strategic nuclear arms control have been put in place, and that relations between Russia and the United States do not yet truly correspond to relations between friendly states. That is, these are not yet countries instinctively taking the same view of problems and challenges more or less as they arise. Indeed, not one Russian policymaker considers U.S.-Russian relations a true partnership, and certainly very few in the United States think in terms of a U.S.-Russian partnership of equals. Especially in recent months, with conflicts in Kosovo, Bosnia, and Chechnya, a strong impression has been created of two countries quite deeply divided by differing perceptions of the world around them, while still in possession of vastly destructive arsenals.
Today, paradoxically, no real understanding can be sensed between Moscow and Washington about their security concerns and motives. Sensitivities to each other's positions were in many ways keener during the Cold War.
To the United States, the end of the Cold War and the break-up of the Soviet Union brought relief from the insecurities of four decades of confrontation with the Soviet Union. [See Fig. 1] The ideological adversary no longer existed, and the probability of a nuclear cataclysm had apparently reached vanishing point. Today, in contrast, the nonproliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and the control of missile and missile technology exports have emerged as top strategic priorities for the United States.
For Russia things are quite different. Its leaders made a decisive and successful effort to end the Cold War, but the reward, in Moscow's view, was that Russia became much more vulnerable than other great powers. Now Russia sees itself confronting strategic threats on both the global and regional levels similar to those it faced early in its history. Anxieties have been heightened by NATO's expansion into East Europe and its military interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo. The problems of nonproliferation are not high priorities, however large they loom in the minds of U.S. strategic thinkers.
Russia's preoccupations are much aggravated by the weakness of its economy, which prevents it from playing a decisive role in global policy, another disappointment. Its conventional military forces are thought to be hard-pressed to guarantee the country's territorial integrity. Consequently, nuclear weapons have gained more prominence in Russian defense thinking. A new Russian concept of national security, issued on 10 January 2000, emphasized that point by anticipating first-use of nuclear weapons if absolutely necessary. The Start 2 treaty, concluded in a period of euphoria over the country's relations with the West, is now seen by many Russian arms control experts to have several shortcomings that could damage their national interests, including making it easier for the United States to upload warheads in a crisis. It also requires Russia to build many new, single-warhead ballistic missiles if it is to reach its permitted ceiling on deployed warheads.
Russian strategic thinkers find support for their arguments in the key role that nuclear weapons continue to play in U.S. security thinking. The Pentagon's last nuclear posture review recommended that the United States should maintain a "hedge" of several thousand nuclear warheads, to be deployed in the event of a failure of U.S.-Russian strategic arms agreements. NATO has retained from the Cold War era, when the military balance was quite different, a nuclear first-use policy similar to that echoed in the new Russian policy statement of 10 January. Yet U.S. superiority in conventional weaponry is greater than ever. Indeed, if somehow all nuclear weapons could be removed from all the world's arsenals, U.S. military predominance would be even more decisive than it is today. In effect, Russia has adopted the U.S. Cold War posture, and the United States has retained it.
Can the deadlock be broken?
Beyond all doubt, then, the current deadlock in nuclear arms control does matter; it inevitably harms all other aspects of the relationship between the powers. The next few years are likely to be a watershed in human history. Either the United States and Russia will move on to deeper reductions in nuclear weapons, or the downward trend in these weapons seen in recent years will be halted and perhaps reversed. A global nuclear arms race cannot be excluded, if the major powers take the wrong road, as they appear to be doing. How can nations be partners within a security community and, simultaneously, rivals in nuclear weaponry? It is a dangerous illusion to think that there is any way of resolving that dilemma short of scrapping one or the other of those mutually exclusive goals. All the ingredients for a catastrophe are still out there.
The two governments, Russian and U.S., must now consider urgently how the several issues before them can be resolved. Delay will make these problems even more intractable. Last December's parliamentary elections in Russia, swayed by the government's aggressive prosecution of the war in Chechnya, produced the political basis for a pro-government majority within the Duma. Consequently, these elections at first generated some hopes that the Start 2 treaty might now be ratified. But that may prove much too optimistic a view.
The war in Chechnya also has intensified the role of the Russian military within the domestic policymaking framework. Since a majority among the military have resisted any modification of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and regard it as the cornerstone for the Start treaties, the prospect for Start 2 treaty ratification by Russia will remain very cloudy so long as the United States insists on renegotiation of the ABM treaty.
Given the long stand-off over Start 2, the wisest course would be to intensify the present U.S.-Russian diplomatic exchanges and to produce a new treaty, drawing on elements of Start 1 and Start 2 and aiming at a ceiling of 1500 deployed nuclear warheads [see Table 1]. The level of 3000-3500 nuclear strategic warheads, established by the Start 2 Treaty, is too high for Russia, and not only because it faces severe financial difficulties. More importantly, this level, as well as the level of 2000-2500 warheads agreed to by Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton in 1997 in Helsinki, is more than Russia and the United States need to support security and nuclear deterrence.
Many Russian arms control experts believe that to sustain its own security their country needs to have a nuclear arsenal of about 1500 warheads and can support this level. The United States is capable of maintaining its own nuclear arsenal at the level of 6000 warheads without difficulties in spite of the cost entailed; consequently, it lacks the same economic motive to go for the deeper cuts.
But possession of a larger nuclear arsenal adds nothing to U.S. security. Even with 1500 nuclear warheads, each side has the ability to destroy the other as a nation.
Regardless of immediate prospects for Start 2 ratification and beyond, classical arms control methods cannot meet all the new challenges of these times. Reductions in levels of nuclear forces alone will not suffice to transform deterrence; nor will deep reductions be possible until other aspects of the deterrent relationship have been changed.
From this point of view, one of the most positive developments of the past few years is the emergence of a variety of strategic nuclear issues as regular topics on the official Russian-U.S. agenda: safety of nuclear weapons; security of weapons and fissile materials; detargeting and deactivation of strategic nuclear forces; and improvement of early-warning systems--to name the most important, and those that have been the main topics of this special report.
The United States and the Russian Federation already have agreed to cooperate on enhancing early warning of ballistic missile flights, and discussions of improvements in early warning systems are ongoing. Auspiciously, a joint U.S.-Russian team in Colorado monitored missile launches during the transition from 1999 to 2000 with the Y2K problem in mind. Evidently the effort was a success.
A decision to reduce the prominence of nuclear weapons in U.S.-Russian relations should also be part of a strategy of limiting the role that these weapons play in international relations generally. This decision cannot be made on military grounds alone. It is a national decision, and must treat military considerations as part of a broader view of national interests in a rapidly changing world. Reducing reliance on the rapid launch of nuclear weapons would be a particularly effective way of turning away from nuclear war-fighting doctrines--the notion, embedded in both countries' strategic doctrines, that the adversary might try to knock out its nuclear forces to gain a strategic advantage and "win" a nuclear war.
An array of U.S.-Russian cooperative arrangements--executive agreements and lab-to-lab contracts--have dealt, fairly successfully, with a variety of specific issues related to the reductions of nuclear weapons required by Start 1 and problems created by the collapse of the Soviet Union. These have addressed safety and security problems connected with dismantling the weapons, and have provided goods and services to offset the costs incurred by the Russian government in dismantling nuclear forces. (The Nunn-Lugar program, a U.S. fund established by Congressional action in 1991-92 at the initiative of Senator Richard Lugar and former Senator Sam Nunn, is the heart of U.S. undertakings to keep Russian weapons-related materials and personnel secure.) It is also heartening that both sides, for the first time in the history of nuclear arms control, have agreed that nuclear warheads should be dismantled under some kind of mutually acceptable monitoring.
Another area in which cooperation could be fruitful is theater and national ballistic missile defense (BMD). While bilateral consultations have been held about possible amendments to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, their scope has been limited. Generally, too, they have not been animated by zeal for understanding how either side's security could be enhanced, especially in relation to third countries (countries that each might call rogue states, but with different nations in mind).
Perhaps the deadlock over ballistic missile defense cannot be broken in the near term. But the two sides could be discussing the issue more rationally than now seems to be the case. Russia sees a U.S. threat to abrogate the treaty and suspects another attempt to gain unilateral advantage. U.S. strategic thinkers envisage threats from countries like North Korea, Iraq, or Iran, which they believe could be countered with minor changes in the treaty. This is hardly a climate in which serious exchanges can be encouraged.
Talk of abrogating the treaty should be replaced by an objective analysis of the "rogue-state" threat as Washington perceives it, and Russian doubts about U.S. purposes should be addressed soberly, by experts from both sides, with an investigation of the impact of ballistic missile defenses on U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear forces.
If ballistic missile defenses of the type now being weighed in Washington were to be deployed after outstanding issues between Russia and the United States had been resolved, and at a time in the future when the technology to overcome even modest attempts at deception were available (not the case at present), the two countries could seek agreement on an asymmetric deployment of offensive forces and ballistic missile defenses. That is, the United States could field a finite number of interceptors and related radars, while Russia could deploy fewer but would be entitled to a higher number of deployed warheads.
An alternative would be to re-orient the current U.S. ballistic missile defense program toward a system less threatening to Russia and China. This could be a boost-phase intercept system, in which ballistic missiles are intercepted shortly after launch. Such a system would be more likely than an exo-atmospheric or terminal phase defense to succeed: the boosters are large, and their precise location cannot be concealed, unlike the situation with incoming warheads.
As the warning and reaction times of an effective boost-phase missile defense system are very short, interceptors might have to be placed on territory adjacent to "rogue states"--for example, Russia's. This presupposes a high degree of political cooperation between it and the United States.
Theater ballistic missile defenses are another matter. The United States and Japan have agreed to cooperate on developing a system for Northeast Asia. South Korea has declined a U.S. invitation, citing its proximity to North Korea. But Russia and China each should be invited to consider the system architecture and its purposes since theater missile defenses in Northeast Asia will affect their security, too. Extending theater missile defense to Taiwan is a question already on the table. Technology is less of an obstacle for theater than for national defense; but whether theater defense is cost-effective at the margin, that is to say, whether the defense could be overwhelmed by a less expensive offense, is unknown. The question of who can outspend whom could come into play, as would the prospect of a regional arms race.
There are other areas in which great progress could in principle be made without becoming the subject of formal arms control treaties. They include, as mentioned, early-warning systems and launch procedures, cooperative programs in theater national missile defense, transparency in warhead dismantlement, and verified withdrawal of all short-range nuclear weapons systems to each country's home territory.
In the case of warheads, greater transparency would have several goals. It would provide increasing levels of confidence that dismantling is taking place. It would increase mutual understanding concerning the size and nature of each other's stocks of weapons and fissile material. It would also enhance security of fissile materials against theft. All this should involve data exchanges, to give a degree of confidence that what is in a container is likely to be a warhead and that what goes into secure storage is likely to have come from the same warhead. It requires something beyond joint material protection, control, and accounting--probably spot checks at storage facilities.
As for short-range nuclear weaponry, the obvious next step would be to consolidate and complete the bold measures initiated by Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev right after the foiled coup against the latter in 1991. By a series of informal and parallel steps, each country withdrew all combat nuclear weapons such as mines and artillery forces from its armies based on enemy soil. Both countries also removed from deployment all tactical nuclear weapons kept at sea--including cruise missiles and bombs, but not, of course, strategic missiles. Each also de-alerted or deactivated over 500 strategic missiles.
Those measures went into effect, however, largely without any provision for verification, and the United States reportedly retained tactical nuclear fighters overseas equipped with nuclear bombs. Withdrawal of those bombs obviously would be a plus from Russia's point of view, while more data exchange as to where weapons are stored and deployed would be seen as especially advantageous by the United States, given what is believed to be significant Russian superiority in holdings of such weapons.
It has not been all downhill in relations between the United States and the former Soviet states since the breakup of the USSR. The withdrawal of all nuclear weapons from the non-Russian successor states, and their accession to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, was a tremendous diplomatic accomplishment that left everyone much safer. Throughout the 1990s, both U.S. and Russian leaders took great care to keep lines of communication open and to quickly temper public statements made in haste or anger.
Yet, in retrospect, the most notable feature of the final Cold War years was that U.S. and Russian leaders openly announced the desirability of ridding the world of nuclear weapons altogether. At the time, the idea was not considered respectable or even mentionable in the top strategic and political circles of either country--and it quickly disappeared once the Cold War was over.
While Ronald Reagan was president, this article's U.S. co-author met with him in the Oval Office several times for so-called photo opportunities. These always proved an occasion for short conversations. In one such meeting, the enigmatic Reagan gave me (I was then head of the U.S. delegation to the conference on confidence-building measures in Europe) the following instruction: "You tell people that I'm willing to go as far as anyone else in getting rid of nuclear weapons."
Regardless of past partisanships, that spirit sorely needs recapturing.
Anatoli S. Diakov is a professor of physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1990, together with Frank von Hippel of Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, he established the Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology to study developments in nuclear arms reduction. His current activities include work on the Russian policy for weapons-grade plutonium disposition, and transparency in and irreversibility of nuclear arms reductions.
James E. Goodby is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University, Senior Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Senior Fellow (nonresident) of the Brookings Institution. He was President Bill Clinton's special representative for the security and dismantlement of nuclear weapons, 1995-96; chief negotiator for co-operative threat reduction agreements, 1993-94; head, U.S. delegation, conference on confidence- and security-building measures in Europe, 1983-85; vice chair, U.S. delegation to Start 1, 1982-83; and ambassador to Finland, 1980-81.


The Purple Line is set to get full federal funding with an agreement signed "in the very near future," a spokesman for Gov. Larry Hogan said.
Without government money, the state cannot afford to construct the 16.2-mile light-rail system, which would span from Bethesda to New Carrollton and pass through College Park. But with this agreement, the state can access $325 million in already-appropriated funds, as well as $900 million through the agreement's full duration, The Washington Post reported.
Hogan met with Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao last week to discuss the roughly $2 billion project, said Hogan's spokesman, Doug Mayer. Once the agreement hits the final stages, construction can begin in a matter of weeks.
President Trump's 2018 budget proposal had previously put the future of the Purple Line at risk, as local entities would be forced to pay for transportation-related items that did not have federal agreements. The Trump budget also threatened to limit other local transportation options that received federal funds, including bike trails and pedestrian infrastructure.
The Purple Line was originally scheduled to be complete in 2022, according to the Maryland Transit Administration's website, but the project has faced delays. In August 2016, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said officials had to further examine ridership and safety elements before it could receive funding.
Leon questioned in May how a decline in Metro ridership would affect plans for the Purple Line, leading Maryland transportation department secretary Pete Rahn to order officials to halt pre-construction efforts.
The Purple Line, which local officials have cited as a key part of urbanizing the city, is slated to have five stops on or near the University of Maryland's campus: Adelphi Road/West Campus, Campus Center near Cole Field House, East Campus near Ritchie Coliseum, the College Park Metro Station and M Square on River Road.


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Kim Jong Kook "Wins" $1 Million USD Bet After Revealing His Clean Doping Test Results
Mr. Doucette, it's time to pay up.
Skylar Adams
The anticipation is finally over—Kim Jong Kook has officially revealed the results of his 392 doping tests.
Kim Jong Kook | @GYM JONG KOOK/YouTube
The Running Man member was previously accused by Canadian bodybuilder Greg Doucette of using doping enhancements to achieve his fit physique. The Canadian bodybuilder confidently "bet" $1 million USD that Kim Jong Kook's physique was not natural, which made headlines all over the world.
Canadian bodybuilder | @GregDoucette/YouTube
In an effort to put the rumors to rest, Kim Jong Kook—who has become an icon of health and fitness in South Korea—began to upload videos that served as a journaling process of his doping test journey. And in his most recent YouTube video, he was able to concretely squash all of the previous enhancement allegations that were made against him with the results of his doping tests.
Before revealing the results, Kim Jong Kook shared the entire testing process of what he went through. He first took his viewers to the very day he underwent all 392 tests, which was back on November 13, 2021.
Testing official: "Since it's 2021, we are only able to do the 2021 version. There are 392 tests."
Kim Jong Kook: "392, sounds good."
He also shared some clips of the testing process, which included a precise packaging of Kim Jong Kook's urine samples.
I think I might be the first ever celebrity in South Korea to do this.
— Kim Jong Kook
It was following the previous introduction that Kim Jong Kook learned that not even Olympic athletes undergo the 392 doping tests.
Testing official: "[Olympic athletes] don't undergo the tests that we did."
Kim Jong Kook: "So I'm taking tests that even Olympic athletes don't even do?"
Testing official: "Yup. These tests are for people who are competing in 'In competition.' These LIMS tests are for people who have been previously caught using doping enhancements."
After a few minutes of discussing what the LIMS tests are, the testing official and the Running Man member reconvened on December 19 to officially talk about his test results. They first revealed the official report which included his doping code number and the proof of Kim Jong Kook's urine sample testing.
The results were then revealed, which stated that no steroid usage was detected in Kim Jong Kook's body!
Based on the results, it is proven that there were no traces of steroid usage in your body.
— Testing official
And there you have it folks! It looks like Canadian bodybuilder Greg Doucette has a hefty check to write. You can watch Kim Jong Kook's entire doping test video down below.


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Somalia Says It Will Cut Diplomatic Ties with Kenya
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Ahmed Mohamed Islam better known as "Ahmed Madobe," speaks after his reelection as President of Jubaland, a semi-autonomous state of Somalia, in Kismayo, on Aug. 22, 2019.
The Somali government announced on Monday it would cut diplomatic ties with neighboring Kenya, citing violations of Somalia's sovereignty.
Somalia Information Minister Osman Abukar Dubbe told VOA's Somali service late Monday the decision had been taken in response to what he called recent political violations and constant, blatant interference by Kenya against Somalia's sovereignty.
Kenya did not immediately respond to Somalia's diplomatic action.
Dubbe said Somalia is pulling its diplomats out of Nairobi and has instructed Kenyan diplomats, starting December 15, to leave Mogadishu within seven days.
Already frosty relations between the two countries have deteriorated since November 29, when Somalia recalled its ambassador to Nairobi and instructed Kenya's ambassador to leave Mogadishu for consultations with his government.
At the time, Somalia accused Kenya of "overt and blatant" interferences in the internal and political affairs of Somalia. Specifically, Somalia accused Kenya of placing "great political pressure" on Somali regional leader Ahmed Mohamed Islam known as Ahmed Madobe of Jubaland, in order to pursue its political and economic interests in Somalia, an official statement said.
Somalia argued that as a result of Kenya's interference, Ahmed Madobe reneged on the election agreement reached between federal and regional Somali leaders on September 17. The September 17 agreement paves the way for indirect elections in Somalia, but the leader of Jubaland wants the Somali government to remove federal forces from Gedo region so that his administration can hold elections, a move opposed by the federal government.
Both Kenya and Jubaland denied the allegations at the time. Kenya expressed regret at the "unfortunate" move by Somalia. Kenya, responding to the Somali government's statement two weeks ago, said the allegations were "unsubstantiated."
And on Sunday, Muse Biji Abdi, president of the breakaway republic of Somaliland, landed in Nairobi on a three-day visit. On Monday, Abdi met with President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Kenya's ministry of foreign affairs said the sides are discussing areas of "mutual interests."
Kenya said it has no diplomatic presence in Somaliland but praised Somaliland as an important partner in the Horn of Africa region in the fight against terrorism and particularly Al-Shabab.
Kenya said it is keen to enhance and broaden trade and investment.
Somaliland declared secession from the rest of Somalia in May 1991 but is yet to gain international recognition. Somalia considers Somaliland as part of Somalia.
In July this year, Somalia cut ties with Guinea after the West African country welcomed Somaliland's president during a visit to Conakry.
Although relations between Somalia and Kenya have deteriorated, Kenya has thousands of troops in Somalia as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia known as AMISOM. It's not yet clear if Somalia will demand the withdrawal of Kenya troops that are based in Jubaland, the region of Somalia neighboring Kenya.
Also, the two countries have a maritime dispute pending before the International Court of Justice. The hearing will take place at The Hague in March 2021.


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Несмотря на то, что пассажирские суда относятся к гражданскому флоту, их могут использовать в военных целях в качестве войсковых транспортов, госпитальных судов. Быстроходные пассажирские лайнеры также использовались в качестве вспомогательных крейсеров до середины Второй мировой войны.

Быстроходный океанский лайнер – традиционный тип пассажирского судна до 50-х годов XX века. С развитием авиации лайнеры проиграли конкурентную борьбу трансокеанским рейсам реактивных самолётов, а на море стали востребованы круизные суда для пассажиров, участвующих в групповой туристической программе с целью кратковременных туристических посещений согласно расписанию одного или нескольких портов, открытых для захода иностранных судов.

Также продолжают активно эксплуатироваться паромы, совершающие регулярные рейсы между несколькими портами. Кроме пассажиров паромы могут перевозить грузы и автомашины (как легковые, так и грузовые).

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Unsafe food temperatures caused Chipotle illnesses Health officials have determined that food left at unsafe temperatures caused 700 people to become ill after eating. Or if hands and surfaces are not cleaned after contact. Spoiled, ask your doctor about these options. If these foods are eaten in their raw form. Foods eaten raw are common sources of food poisoning because they dont go through the cooking process. Not cooked properly, foodborne illness, or toxic food, food poisoning can occur. Is the result of eating contaminated. More commonly referred to as food poisoning.
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Art Post: Clair C's Gentle Satire
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Very occasionally here at [adjective][species], we take a bit of time to highlight a furry artist. In this case I'd like to talk about Clair C, aka Gokart, who creates subtle and joyful art.
Clair has already contributed some art to [a][s], providing a happy purple zebra to grace a relatively inconsequential article I write about zebra domestication. It is a simple drawing, but one I found almost unfathomably delightful. Her sketch captures an essence of life in its minimalist lines, becoming something larger than the sum of its sparse parts.
Since then I have had the pleasure of exploring her art. There is a lot to explore. She is prolific, and long may that continue. Her art, largely comics and character studies, convey a kind of happy contentment or muted joy.
Purple Zebra
In our furry world, there isn't always a clear delineation made between an artist and an illustrator. Many of our high profile artists are very skilled at creating essentially realist pictures of fictional furry characters: their drawings represent the way things might look in the real world. Such pseudo-realist art (Blotch, say) is important to furry, because it portrays a world in which anthropomorphic characters live and breathe.
There is an understandable drive towards greater realism in furry art, and many of our high-profile artists aspire to psuedo-realism. Such art is valuable and requires great skill. But realism is not required for a work of art to have value, and indeed realism can come at the expense of nuance and complexity.
Clair's art is drawn with a simple style, yet with great skill and insight. She has an eye for small details that see her worlds and her characters exist beyond the page. I see similarities between her work and that of (Norwegian cartoonist) Jason—they both create sparse, uncluttered worlds, allowing emotion to come to the fore.
Such minimalism allows Clair to express complex ideas. Her work tends to be whimsical, and is often satirical, and so humour is rarely far from the surface. But she doesn't deal in punchlines. She trusts the reader to read between the lines, to find small joys and small sadnesses hidden just below the surface.
There are dozens of examples I could have chosen from Clair's recent output I could have chosen to accompany this piece. For my first, I've chosen a personal favourite.
Here, Clair is gently satirizing an old internet meme, the (delightful) "unicorns fart glitter" trope. She's chosen her gross bodily function—vomiting—and made it a beautiful rainbow.
Her personal twist is to take the focus away from the fantasy of the glittery rainbow, putting it on the very real and unglamorous experience of vomiting. She brings her unicorn into the real world by making him anthro, putting him in a dingy apartment with drawn curtains and sparse furnishings, and giving him the flu. Our unicorn is poor, lonely, and sick.
The juxtaposition of the colourful rainbow vomit and the poorly unicorn evokes, in me at least, a combination of pity and laughter. We all experience a bit of magic when we do or see something exciting and new: maybe visiting a new town, or starting a new job. But the magic disappears over time and soon enough the magical new thing in our lives becomes part of our routine, the wallpaper of our life. And so it is for our unicorn: his rainbow vomit might be magical to us, but to him it's just nausea.
Clair's sick unicorn vignette is a perfectly pitched balance of the touching and the ludicrous. She explores the unicorn trope from many other angles in her art—it's worth exploring her archive just for those.
For my second example of Clair's work, I've chosen a page from her ongoing Harvest Moon satire.
In her comic, Claire takes us through the first few hours of Harvest Moon gameplay. Her story, while closely following the gameplay of Harvest Moon, is divorced from the unreality of the videogame universe. Her protagonist acts as an stand-in for the reader, bemused by the strange and arbitrary rules of the game, but happy enough to play along with them.
Reading her comic (titled Harvest) is closer to living, rather than playing, Harvest Moon. Clair gently shines a light on the illogic of the Harvest Moon universe, as her protagonist swaps rocks for chickens, encounters locals with lovehearts hovering above their heads, and spends all day watering a handful of seedlings. Our protagonist takes this strangeness as it comes, just like you do when you play the game, but with a hint of bemusement towards the whole experience.
Harvest succeeds where Scott Ramsoomair's Pokemon satire (Super Effective) fails. Ramsoomair also takes the reader through the first few hours of a game that is set in an illogical universe. But instead of allowing the absurdity to shine through, he is forever reaching for a punchline. Super Effective is laboured where Harvest is delightful.
Harvest may be a satire, exploring the silliness of Harvest Moon, but it also acknowledges the fun of playing the game. Clair is clearly a fan, and her love for the game shines through. She has taken Harvest Moon—a work of art in its own right—and used it to create a valuable but very different work of art, just as great satire can do.
I asked Clair about her gaming, and she was kind enough to share a picture of her collection.
"As far as favourites go I will have to say N64, Gamecube and Dreamcast."
Clair lists her influences as Scott Campbell (from Double Fine Productions), Steve Purcell (creator of Sam and Max), and Lewis Trondheim (who created the Dungeon series with Joan Sfar). She also recommends Jen (on Tumblr), Rory (on Tumblr), and Sloane (on Tumblr), who are the creators of Wolfen Jump.
Finally, I asked Clair to share one of her character studies.
"I liked how it turned out, plus I enjoy drawing foxes."
Clair is, unbelievably, open for commissions. She is on Weasyl and FA. She also offers bonuses for subscribers on Patreon.
The Spring season of Harvest is available online and as a physical comic.
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The HVP-50 autoclave, with a 50-L chamber, is a self-contained, portable floor model mounted on caster wheels. It occupies minimum floor space, operates at 120V, and can fit conveniently into many locations in the laboratory.
Its many uses include the sterilization and drying of glassware and pipette tips, and the sterilization of wastes and liquids such as agar and media.
The HVP-50 model can accommodate a 10-L fermenter, a 15-L carboy, a 19" x 24" biohazard bag, six 1-L flasks, twenty-one 500-mL bottles, or one hundred eighty 20-mm test tubes.


Painting of Joseph Haydn by Ludwig Guttenbrunn (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.
The story of Joseph Haydn's "Farewell Symphony" (Symphony No. 45) is a story of musicians in need of a vacation.
Click here to see a performance of the last movement of Haydn's "Farewell Symphony" in which the musicians leave the stage one by one.
The Bloomfield Civic Band is enjoying a break for a few weeks. Rehearsals will begin again in September, and we will circulate news about upcoming concerts as soon as the dates are set. Meanwhile, if you enjoyed our music during the 2017–2018 season, why not send us a note via our Facebook page. You can use the "Send Message" button to send a note.


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Luanda, a Fábrica da Música é um documentário musical sobre o kuduro dirigido, em Luanda, em 2009, por Inês Gonsalves e Kiluanje Liberdade.

É uma co-produção da No Land Filmse e da RTP. Em 2009 foi selecionado para o festival "Africa in the Picture" na Holanda.

Sinopse
No meio de um musseque de Luanda encontramos DJ Buda que é dono de um estúdio de gravação. Os jovens aspirantes a cantores têm aqui a oportunidade de se expressarem. Ao som das batidas de Buda, os miúdos gritam, através do velho microfone, as suas preocupações, amores e experiências. Uma energia incrível solta-se. No fim dançam loucamente, riem e ouvem o seu próprio trabalho com os outros habitantes do bairro.

Ficha técnica
 Realizador: Inês Gonsalves, Kiluanje Liberdade
 Director de Fotografia: Inês Gonsalves
 Produção: Noland Films
 Montagem: Maria Joana Figueiredo
 Som: Kiluanje Liberdade, Emídio Buchinho

Festivais
 DokFest, Alemanha (2010)
 World Film Festival, Canadá (2010)
 Festival de Cine Africano de Córdoba, Espanha (2010)
 Play-Doc, Espanha (2010)
 Africa in the Picture, Holanda (2009)
 DocLisboa, Portugal (2009)
 DokLeipzig, Alemanha (2009)
 My World Images, Dinamarca
 Centre for African Culture, Noruega

Ver também
Inês Gonsalves
Kiluanje Liberdade
Kuduro
Exposição 'AGORA LUANDA'

Ligações externas
'Luanda, a Fábrica da Música' na RTP
Cinema Português
'Luanda, a Fábrica da Música' no Jornal 'Público'
 'Luanda, a Fábrica da Música' no blogue de cinema da Revista 'Visão'
Kuduro de Angola

Referências

Filmes de Portugal de 2009
Documentários de Angola
Kuduro
Filmes gravados em Angola
Filmes de Angola de 2009
Filmes em língua portuguesa
Filmes em quimbundo


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International Association of Electronic Waste Producer Responsibility Organisations
Tackling the e-waste challenge
Eco-modulation of fees for 'greener' products: concerns and challenges
The European Commission's draft Guidelines on the "general minimum requirements for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes" set out in Directive 2018/851/EU aim to facilitate the adaptation of EPR schemes to new requirements concerning eco-modulation of fees by providing guidance to…
#PROsAtWork Erion and Epron – one year of twinning
The two largest Italian and Nigerian Extended Producer Responsibility systems make a first assessment of their participation in the Twinning Programme promoted by WEEE Forum to support the circular economy in emerging countries. Erion and Epron "together for the environment".…
#PROsAtWork RoRec Romania issues The Green Manners Guide e-book
10 years ago, RoRec Association (Romania) launched the Recycling Patrol – an environmental education program dedicated to pupils from kindergartens, schools, and high schools in Romania. For 8 years, RoRec coordinated the program with stunning results: 8,000,000 kg of WEEE…
172 organisations worldwide raise the profile of the global e-waste issue on the Fourth International E-Waste Day
The fourth annual International E-Waste Day, held on 14th October, was the most high profile yet. The event brought together hundreds of e-waste stakeholders across the world to promote the correct treatment of electrical and electronic equipment to enable reuse,…
#PROsAtWork Erion questions Italians about e-waste, circular economy and climate change
Erion, the largest Italian system for the management of waste associated with electronic products and the valorisation of the raw materials within it, on the occasion of the International E-Waste Day 2021 (and of the double first birthday of Erion…
#PROsAtWork Recupel celebrates the past while building the future
Our Belgian member, Recupel, turns 20 this year. What better way to celebrate than to continue building the future of recycling and reuse of electrical and electronic waste, thus facilitating the transition to a circular economy? Recupel is one of…
Digital Solutions for a Circular Electronics Value Chain – thought paper and webinar
As part of a collaboration for International E- waste Day 2021, The International Telecommunication Union, the WEEE Forum, GSMA, and Sofies Group have prepared a thought paper, 'Digital Solutions for a Circular Electronics Value Chain', which explores the current applicability…
International E-Waste Day: 57.4M Tonnes Expected in 2021
On International E-Waste Day 2021, leading experts and producer responsibility organisations are calling on households, businesses and governments to get behind efforts to get more dead or unused plug-in or battery-operated products to facilities where they can be either repaired…
Joint industry statement regarding the Digital Services Act
The WEEE Forum and 29 other civil society and industry groups join forces in a joint statement regarding the Digital Services Act (DSA) as a vehicle to counter online free-riding. We request policymakers to ensure the DSA holds accountable online…
Discussion paper | Towards circular e-waste management: how can digitalisation help?
E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world. Most of it is mishandled, leading to more pollution, more greenhouse gas emissions and the loss of scarce and critical materials. Digitalisation can go a long way to establishing a…
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International E-Waste Day - 14 October 2021
The 4th edition of the #ewasteday took place on 14 October 2021.
According to the UN, in 2021 each person on the planet will produce on average 7.6 kg of e-waste, meaning that a massive 57.4 million tonnes will be generated worldwide. Only 17.4 per cent of this electronic waste containing a mixture of harmful substances and precious materials will be recorded as being properly collected, treated and recycled.
Many initiatives are taken to tackle this growing concern, but none of them can be fully effective without the active role and correct education of consumers. This year's International E-Waste Day focused on the crucial part each of us has in making circularity a reality for e-products.
WEEE Flows report and WEEE Forum's vision paper
After nearly two decades since the creation of EU legislation on WEEE and despite huge effort and advancement, most Member States have not reached the WEEE collection targets.
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research highlights in its latest study the factors that impede formal/official collection and concludes that, in order to achieve the minimum collection rate, Member States have to divert a high proportion of WEEE that currently goes unreported. In its vision paper, based on UNITAR's report, the WEEE Forum lays out four vital steps that need to be taken to ensure the system is fair and achievable and conveys its vision for the future of Extended Producer Responsibility.
Read more and download the reports here
There are currently 44 members of the WEEE Forum. These members are not-for-profit WEEE producer responsibility organisations (or 'producer compliance schemes') mainly in Europe, but we have recently expanded globally and are now pleased to include members from six different continents.
Our members represent electrical and electronic equipment manufacturers covering the whole spectrum of production from small electronic devices, such as cellphones, through to large household appliances like refrigerators and other large items, for example photovoltaic panels.
Collected WEEE
Since their foundation, the producer responsibility organisations of the WEEE Forum have collected, de-polluted and recycled or sent for preparation for re-use 21.7 million tonnes of WEEE. 2.7 million tonnes of this was collected in 2019, which was almost two thirds of WEEE collected in Europe during that year.
In addition, our members operate over 114,000 WEEE collection points and two thirds of them are market leaders in their countries.
The WEEE Forum a.i.s.b.l. is an international association representing forty producer responsibility organisations across the globe. Together with our members, we are at the forefront of turning the extended producer responsibility principle into an effective electronic waste management policy approach through our combined knowledge of the technical, business and operational aspects of collection, logistics, de-pollution, processing, preparing for reuse and reporting of e-waste. Our mission is to be the world's foremost e-waste competence centre excelling in the implementation of the circularity principle.
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At this time many people want to discover ways to play guitar. The fashionable guitar was preceded by the gittern , the vihuela , the 4- course Renaissance guitar , and the five-course baroque guitar , all of which contributed to the event of the fashionable six-string instrument. Renaissance and Baroque guitars are the ancestors of the trendy classical and flamenco guitar They're considerably smaller, more delicate in construction, and generate much less quantity.
Apart from that, also pay attention to a guitar's fretboard, bridge and strings. Fender Stratocaster -sort guitars typically make the most of three single-coil pickups, while most Gibson Les Paul sorts use humbucker pickups. Whilst you do not need to be an knowledgeable on music theory to play guitar, it is important to know the basic building blocks of music.
All Kiesel USA Customized Store guitars may be outfitted with a huge number of options, including body and neck woods, exotic high woods, a big selection of finishes, fingerboard woods, inlays, fretwire, electronics, hardware and much more. Legendary guitars like the Gibson Les Paul and Fender Stratocaster have appeared on countless #1 records, and remain a preferred choice in the present day.
Some solid-bodied guitars, such as the Gibson Les Paul Supreme, the PRS Singlecut or the Fender Telecaster Thinline, amongst others, are constructed with hollows within the body. A staple in 60's mod tradition, the distinctive hollowbody construction, slim neck and contoured physique make the Rickenbacker 330 so easy to play that it has held the standing as one of many all-time greatest guitars for many years.
The headstock is positioned on the finish of the guitar neck farthest from the physique. Nevertheless, you'll find greater than sufficient guitar brands from lesser recognized producers as well; these smaller corporations take monumental delight in offering fashions of equally extraordinary playability, tone and development. Loog guitars resolve this: their 3-string neck reduces chords to the basic triad -simply three notes-, still permitting you to play any track and making the entire studying course of easier, sooner and extra rewarding.


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"…Farewell Old Friends, Farewell…"
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No, I'm not saying goodbye, it's just the title of the final record from one of my favorite bands of all time, a band called Bleach. Yesterday I went and bought it. It's been a sad couple of days as I have thought back through my life from junior high on. That's when I bought the first Bleach CD. They have a total of six albums and I own them all. I never actually got to see them live, because the one time I was going to do so I basically broke my leg in a soccer game (to the point where I had to have an ambulance come to the field). It was my freshman year in high school. But I still went to the show that was over an hour and a half away. We missed Bleach, but we got to hang out with them for a couple of hours which was just as cool; now that's punk rock.
The final song called "Farewell Old Friends" is really a song for anyone who has liked this band at one point. Though I don't intend to do a review of this record, I am saying that the lyrics to that song have definitely made me a bit emotional the past few days. We don't talk like that anymore, "Farewell Old Friends," do we? It's more of a 1700's saying in my mind. But I must say that it is a sad day in the life Christian music. I can officially say that I have been alive and enjoyed the entire life of a band, and a band that is committed to Jesus Christ. Who is your favorite band, maybe a band that has impacted you, or that you just enjoy when everyone else might not?
So though I'll be back sooner than later, this is in memory of my favorite band:
"Farewell old friends, this has been the best it could have been, farewell old friends, and we won't forget the times we spent, as for me and my countrymen, we are headed out to sea, and there's no way that this is the end for them, or for me… so farewell. for now farewell, this has been a tale, we hope you tell. don't forget what we've become, and the training's worth the time it took, now that it is done. when the waves they come crashing in, will I withstand and sing? there is nothing for us to fear, we're in the service of the Good King. the Good King. so farewell, farewell, old friends, farewell, farewell, farewell, old friends.."
- Bleach (1996-2005)
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Q: Can't push local Postgre database to Heroku i have a problem getting my local database into Heroku.I'm currently working on building a Django web application and I tried to learn about getting local database to Heroku .I was trying to push my local Postgresql database with pg:push command then this error happen
pg_restore: error: unrecognized data block type (0) while searching archive
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Any idea why is this happened ?

A: I'm a lazy programmer and efficient so this is much more easier rather than paying for AWS backup store them in excel sheets.
This save cost and not use PUSH: PULL which is not efficient.
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Performance Art Event "Kahn. Islander."
Performance art show celebrating the works of an Estonian-born American architect Louis Kahn.
In 2016 an Estonian art critic Heie Treier published a book "KAHN: The Islander" exploring the motivations, and subconscious inspirations behind Kahn's work. She elaborately focused on medieval Estonian architecture and analyzed how Kahn's birthplace might have influenced his creative work. In collaboration with five New York-based artists, we'll explore how our physical surrounding can change artistic perception. Throughout the evening you'll be a part of four different artistic numbers inspired by Kahn's architecture, including the recently opened Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park.
Performers: Diina Tamm (movement), Valev Laube (sounds), Evan Basta (sounds), David Rothenberg (words), Jaanika Peerna (drawing), James Koroni (movement).
On a recent visit to Estonia, Jan Fuscoe, discovered facts, and an especially interesting theory, about Louis Kahn, one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. Kahn died in 1974, in the men's room of Manhattan's Penn Station in New York City. His body couldn't be identified as he'd crossed out his address in his passport, so he lay unclaimed in the morgue for three days. His death was as unconventional as his life had been.


2014 - 2016 Joost Mellink: "How to achieve meaningful integration of IT?"
Without saying more than a few introductory words, Joost brought his invited guest speaker Jos Vliegenthart to the stage. Vliegenthart, a healthcare IT consultant launched into a business-like PowerPoint presentation describing his work in IT. He began by outlining some of the trends that have led to the growing demand of healthcare (such as the ageing population, a newly assertive patient population, and the rise of patient self-management). He also talked about some of the problems and challenges that have come up with data management in the field of IT and the way these issues tend to play a part in the lives of physicians and their patients. In patient-centered care, Vliegenthart says, the patient is increasingly more responsible for his own health and his own data management. He forecasts a future where we will need to turn unstructured data into structured data so that we can recognize it, make meaning, and 'cluster it'. According to Vliegenthart, this will lead to new, updated roles for professionals in the healthcare field.
After the lecture, Joost screened a short farm-management systems promotional video. In the advertisement, the deep-voiced narrator speaks about how more sensors and greater connections will lead to a sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future in farming. In this model, IT based on 'decision supported information' will make it easy to "compare, calculate, and cooperate".
For Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Joost's presentation drew him back into his former life when he was an engineer working on optimization devices to monitor patients with cardiovascular disease. He considered how over-optimization of the world leaves no space for chance, but here – in this performance platform at DAI, and perhaps also in art – "there is a lot of space for chance." In regard to the ageing population that Vliegenthart referred to, he commented that, "we are outsourcing death", and the distance between people (for example between doctor and patient) is getting progressively wider. Finally, he wondered aloud what effect hacking might have on such systems?
Ekaterina Degot began by admitting that she might not be on the same page since she was not exactly sure what IT is. She also wondered about the word 'integration' in the main question – integration into what? She said that throughout the lecture-performance she had been asking herself if the presentation was supposed to be serious, and if not, when it would become funny. For her, that comic relief came with Vliegenthart's remark that we are "supposed to collect our own data and store it ourselves". Degot reminded the audience that avant-garde artists wanted to turn consumers into artists in an effort to get to get rid of consumers. Drawing a parallel to the healthcare trends Joost's presentation brought (for example, that we are all supposed to diagnose ourselves), Degot says that in art now everybody is not just an artist but also an artist–researcher (which also speaks of a kind of self-diagnosis).


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Yesterday We Celebrated the 48th Anniversary of Black Tot Day
Yesterday marks the 48th anniversary of Black Tot Day. On July 31, 1970, the Royal British Navy removed the rum from their ships. Black Tot Day is the name given to the last day on which the Royal Navy issued sailors with a daily rum ration, the daily tot if you will. In the 17th century, the daily drink ration for English sailors was a gallon of beer, but because the beer would spoil at sea, they switched to rum. This was the end of a tradition that lasted more than 300 years. There are so many stories about the rum and the sailors that could be told, but in fact it was just a sad day in British Naval history.
Lets just raise our Glasses to the end of a very special tradition. This tradition began in 1655 just after the invasion of Jamaica. By 1740 Admiral Vernon mandated that the rum be mixed with water to cut it town from its 109 proof. This mixture became known ass grog. Around 1823 the ration was cut in half, and cut by half again in 1850. Finally on July 31, 1970 the rations were eliminated completely. Like I said, a Black Tot Day in British Naval History.
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Russia's X5 Retail Group is opening its first trade representative office abroad in Hong Kong, with the aim of boosting direct imports.
The retailer says that the new Hong Kong office will offer a gateway to South-East Asia, and aims to build up the share of direct imports in a number of product categories, primarily fruit, vegetables, seafood and non-food goods.
X5 is also considering establishing similar trade offices in Central Asia and South America.
"Ramping up direct imports of goods that are not produced in Russia and seasonal products has been among X5's top priorities since 2016. In 2017, the number of countries where X5 has direct relationships with suppliers reached 27," the company said in a statement.
"Direct imports already account for almost 50% of supplied fruit and berries. In the 18 months after the launch of the direct import programme, the total number of direct suppliers reached 200," it added.
In 2017-2018, the company intends to establish direct imports from six more countries: Bosnia, Mexico, Namibia, Madagascar, New Zealand and Iran.
It says that it is open to cooperation with producers from other countries looking to tap into the Russian market.
Last month the retailer posted a 24.9% increase in sales for the third quarter of the year, with sales tolling RUB 317,131 million. It opened 820 new stores during the period, including its 11,000th store.


Wall Clock on antique wood, hand painted by Art Masters. Antique wooden boards have been recovered from old historic buildings and converted into contemporary decorative panels. The result is a blend of history, art and matter. Unique and original items to decorate even the smallest corner of a home with personality and elegance. Each artwork is entirely hand painted and size is approximative, therefore slight differences with the original may occurr (also based on the availabilty of antique wood) and are proof of uniqueness and craftsmanship.


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For just over a year now we've been sharing info on Zodiac: Organon Odyssey, the "humble little 2D RPG" that we declared the winner of TGS 2014. The time has finally come where the game's launch is in sight: it's slated for release sometime next month on PS Vita and iOS. In anticipation of the release Kobojo has released a video all about Eko, a 12-year old Phyltrian who has never ventured past the limits of Arcon City until he accompanies Cael to the Phyltrian Wetlands.
Zodiac's website describes Eko has serious but occasionally impulsive. He and his siblings work purifying the city's water while dreaming of visiting their homeland and their parents, King and Queen Totosu. At least, that is what he does before there is a disaster at the city reservoir and he joins Cael's party and leaves the city for the first time. Eko also has some pretty sweet moves, such as Aquatic Assault and Soothing Soul.
We will continue to bring you news on Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey as the release draws nearer! Until then, check out its first trailer as well as how it is changing its developer's business model.
Review: Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul (Sony PlayStation 4)
Gust's Yoru no Nai Kuni coming to Europe courtesy of Koei Tecmo… oh, and it also announced Atelier Escha & Logy Plus
Australian game development gets its biggest government boost in years (which isn't saying much)
Today, the Australian Minister for the Arts, Tony Burke, announced the Revive National Cultural Policy, which…