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Russia is ramping up its efforts in the Ukraine war by doubling the number of its pens holding trained dolphins near the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, the UK defense intelligence agency said on Friday. The British bureau’s satellites captured images of expanding enclosures it saidcontain bottle-nosed dolphins. Rare Polar Bear Attack in Canada | Extreme Earth“The implication is that dolphin patrols have increased in frequency and/or cover more area,” according to Naval News. “The marine mammals have an inherent advantage…

A ballad about ethnic cleansing was an unusual choice for Eurovision, a competition best known for glam, kitschy pop. But seven years ago Crimean Tatar singer Jamala swept Ukraine to their second victory in the song contest with 1944.It told the story of the deportation of her entire people – hundreds of thousands of women, children and men – from their ancestral home to central Asia on Stalin’s orders.The Tatars’ exile lasted decades, and when they were finally allowed to return, their centuries-long history had been all…

The award by a Hague-based arbitration court is likely to trigger a long process by Ukraine and the gas company to recover Russian assets abroad. The award by a Hague-based arbitration court is likely to trigger a long process by Ukraine and the gas company to recover Russian assets abroad. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

The United States and Microsoft Corp reached a settlement on Thursday over the tech firm's apparent violations of sanctions and export controls, which it disclosed voluntarily, the government and the company said.Microsoft has agreed to remit about $3 million to settle its potential civil liability for more than 1,300 apparent sanctions violations in relation to restrictions on Cuba, Iran, Syria and Russia involving the export of services or software from the U.S. to sanctioned jurisdictions, the U.S. Treasury Department…

Dutch director Oeke Hoogendijk’s exemplary documentary unpacks an utterly fascinating legal and ethical conundrum that’s simultaneously extremely timely and weirdly timeless. At the heart of the story is a collection of precious antiquities, the Crimean treasures of the title, some dating back thousands of years to the time of the Scythians. It couldn’t be a more timely story given how the Russia-Ukraine war heated up in Crimea just this past week with a bomb going off on the Kerch bridge, suggesting Crimea – forcibly…