“A total war has begun,” Duma deputy Oleg Morozov said on Friday during a talk show appearance on Russia’s First Channel, “and we have to make the collective West understand that they have no chance of winning this war.” Morozov’s statement came in the wake of comments from Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger, who confirmed on Friday that the NATO member had donated an S-300 air defense system to Ukraine....
Russia’s state-run news agency TASS cited an anonymous source in the local authorities as saying that a fire broke out at Novoshakhtinsk refinery in the Rostov region five kilometers from the Ukraine border after two Ukrainian drones were spotted over the plant. “One of them made an impact, crashing into a heat transfer unit, after which the blaze started. The second one flew away,” the unnamed source told TASS....
Rune Factory games started as an offshoot of Harvest Moon, the first having the subtitle ‘A Fantasy Harvest Moon’ but have developed their own style over time. Sim games like Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, and Harvest Moon have a wonderfully relaxing feel while players tend to crops, craft items, or chat with the town’s folk. Rune Factory 4 Special takes these key points and adds adventures like going through dungeons, slaying monsters, and finding treasure or material for crafting....
Osborne recently revealed on LinkedIn that he was leaving Jagex after fifteen years of content editing, narrative design, and lead design. It’s a choice he made, as he describes, to “test [his] experience in the rest of the industry.” Osborne is leaving Jagex and going straight into Square Enix on the publishing side, as a Senior Designer. He’ll be overseeing “some fantastic games,” beginning with Outriders. RELATED: Runescape is Getting Its Own Tabletop Game...
It was harder on her widowed mother. Although China has made great strides in its educational system over the past 50 years, high costs are driving millions of rural children to drop out of school–or not to start at all. Since the mid-1980s, Beijing, keen to wean localities off state funding, made village and township governments responsible for as much as three quarters of school budgets. Local authorities in turn foisted education costs onto farmers....
Ian McNabb took to Twitter on January 9 to suggest that those who are struggling to sleep during the coronavirus pandemic should watch the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World to help them sleep as he had never “made it past the ten minute mark.” “Lots of folk complaining about lack of sleep during the Pandemic,” he wrote. “May I recommend Master And Commander starring the usually captivating, attention-grabbing Russell Crowe....
The Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder was conspicuous by his absence as a 13-member West Indies squad led by Carlos Brathwaite sweated it out under lights this evening. “No comments (on Andre Russell). There will be an official update,” West Indies media manager told media at the news conference. Russell was slated to arrive on November 1 along with other T20 specialists like skipper Carlos Brathwaite. “Seven players including Brathwaite arrived via London on November 1....
“Russell Westbrook is a player who can do it all, and we can’t imagine a better fit for the cover of NBA LIVE 16,” said EA SPORTS VP of Marketing Anthony Stevenson. “NBA LIVE 16 is all about self-expression, and who better embodies that than Westbrook, both on and off the court? Russell plays every game like he has something to prove. Our team is building NBA LIVE the exact same way, so we’re thrilled to have him as an ambassador for our game....
Wilson has passed for 249 touchdowns so far in his career and would become only the third quarterback in NFL history with 250 touchdown passes in his first nine NFL seasons should he throw for at least one TD on Sunday. It would be a significant milestone for Wilson, as only two-time Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning and Pro Football Hall of Famer Dan Marino have broken the 250 touchdown passes barrier in their first nine seasons in the league....
He wasn’t able to finish it, however. Wilson suffered a head injury after a 14-yard scramble early in the fourth quarter. The veteran quarterback hit his head hard on the turf after being tackled by L’Jarius Sneed. NFL PLAYOFF PICTURE: Updated AFC, NFC standings for Week 14 Wilson lay motionless on the ground for a moment while his teammates signaled to the bench to come help him. He was eventually able to get up and walk off the field, surrounded by members of Denver’s medical staff....
MORE: Seahawks’ Michael Bennett blows up at reporter after loss to Falcons A photo posted by Russell Wilson (@dangerusswilson) on Jan 14, 2017 at 9:34pm PST Along with the photograph Wilson wrote that he will “forever win” because he gets to come home to Ciara every night: “I will forever win bc I get to come home to you every night. The love of my life. I love you. This past year has been full of so much joy & happiness....
Washington’s embassy in Moscow has been warning U.S. citizens not to attend “unauthorized” protests in Russia, but last week included a map showing the planned demonstration route as the start time of a scheduled rally among unregistered opposition candidates in Moscow. The statement said “U.S. citizens should avoid the protest route,” but the decision to include such specific information in English and Russian was viewed by the Russian Foreign Ministry as a tacit advertisement for the gathering, where scores were ultimately arrested....
In exercises involving some 2,000 personnel, 10 vessels and a number of aircraft as well, the Russia and Syrian armed forces signaled a new level of defense cooperation off the coast of the city of Tartus in the eastern Mediterranean. Maneuvers included counterterror operations, anti-drone warfare and deception, among other tactics. Maxim Zabolotsky, chief of the Radiochemical and Biological Protection Service at Russia’s Tartus base, described the training as “complex and tense,” but said the two navies “coped with the task thanks to the joint skillful and coherent actions,” according to the state-run TASS Russian News Agency....
IPC President Philip Craven on Sunday announced a decision to suspend Russian athletes from 2016 Rio Paralympics, reports Sputnik. “We have just lodged an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). It will be considered in accordance with the established procedure. This is all Mr. Craven’s black PR,” Lev Seleznev told R-Sport on Sunday. In July, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) urged IPC to suspend the Russian Paralympic team from the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro....
Russia has the third-highest number of confirmed cases in the world, after the U.S. and Spain. The country now has more confirmed cases than Italy, which previously had the highest number of cases and fatalities outside China, where the virus was first reported. More than half of the country’s cases and deaths are in Moscow. The capital reported 6,169 new cases on Monday, bringing the city’s total to 115,909, including 1,124 deaths, according to figures published on the website of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin....
Monday’s statement followed a rancorous exchange between the countries at the United Nations as the prospect of diplomacy easing fears of a Moscow-led invasion of Ukraine seemed further away than ever. The mission said on Facebook that “the generator of tension is not Moscow but Washington” and that “we are not going to back away and stand at attention, heeding the threat of U.S. sanctions.” Tass said the embassy was irked by a U....
U.K defense officials referred to the prediction by Russia’s Military-Industrial Commission (VPK) that Moscow would boost defense spending this year by up to 700 billion rubles ($12 billion) compared with 2021 when it spent around $65 billion. The commission’s first deputy chairman, Andrey Elchaninov, told Interfax last week that Russia’s military-industrial complex had stepped up production of weapons but that sanctions imposed by the West meant Moscow had to go elsewhere for certain components....
In its daily intelligence update on the Ukraine war on Monday, the ministry noted that on November 3, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi said Russia had lost over twice the number of aircraft in Ukraine than it had in the nine-year Soviet-Afghan War—278 aircraft lost in Ukraine compared to 119 in Afghanistan. “Whilst we cannot independently verify these figures, Russia’s continued lack of air superiority is likely exacerbated by poor training, loss of experienced crews, and heightened risks of conducting close air support in dense air defence zones,” said the U....
Speaking to Newsweek from the city of Zaporizhzhia, which sits just behind the southern front line, Fedorov said the Russian forces in the region appear intent on defending his native city with fresh troops and defensive positions appearing regularly. “They’ve built new military buildings and military [fortifications],” Fedorov said. “We see that they want to defend the temporarily occupied territories, and every week our citizens who have stayed in the occupied territories tell us that new Russian troops, newly drafted soldiers, arrive....
Ukrainian military officials said that on Wednesday night, the Russian army launched six S-300 air defense missiles in the direction of Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine, however, one of the missiles deviated off-course, and hit a district in the Russian city of Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border. Several Belgorod residents caught the moment on camera, Ukrainian military officials said. Open-source intelligence account OSINTtechnical shared some clips that reportedly showed the failed launch on Twitter, suggesting that “something went seriously wrong with the guidance system....
