US preeminence has been a topic of recurrent hand- wringing. Whether prompted by the flexing of Soviet muscle, most spectacularly with the launch of Sputnik in the 1950s; the civil rights upheavals and growing fallout from the Vietnam War in the 1960s, the Arab oil embargo and the Watergate scandal of the

ations from reach- ing Russian audiences even as it steadily expands the reach of its own mouthpieces, the television channel RT and the news service Sputnik. China blocks the websites of mainstream foreign media while en- couraging its corporations to purchase influence in popular culture abroad through c

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been charged with making a terror threat, murder and other crimes." Alethea Group disinformation expert Cindy Otis, "a former CIA analyst, said RT, Sputnik and other Kremlin-backed media have been writing more about QAnon, using it to fit into" a broader narrative of US decline. The Daily Beast <https

of the first vaccines to the blockaded coastal area." Initially, "former health ministers and several medical workers were inoculated with Russia's Sputnik V jabs in front of dozens of cameras." Next, "medical workers and patients with chronic diseases are to start receiving injections on Tuesday." The

the announcement "came shortly after news emerged that he would speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday about obtaining doses of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine." The AP adds, "Other Latin American leaders who have tested positive for the coronavirus are Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro,

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uced Batch Of Sputnik V. Reuters (5/20) reports that Brazilian pharmaceutical company Uniao Quimica "completed production of its first batch of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine with active ingredients and technology supplied by Russia." Russia's Gamaleya Institute "said it had seen to quality control

and its Berlin-based subsidiary, issued a joint press release saying the technology transfer will begin immediately. It expects the roll out of the Sputnik V vaccine in the third quarter of 2021." US Sanctions Exacerbate Pandemic In Iran. The AP (4/22, Karimi, Batrawy) reports that "as Iran faces what

source says Ms Waddington has made it plain she feels Andrew has not recognised all the work she has done for his two daughters. For several years, Sputnik employed someone virtually full-time on the Duchess's account, when much of the work involved the princesses, whose activities required constant org

ions from reach- ing Russian audiences even as it steadily expands the reach of its own mouthpieces, the television channel RT and the news service Sputnik. China blocks the websites of mainstream foreign media while en- couraging its corporations to purchase influence in popular culture abroad through

been charged with making a terror threat, murder and other crimes." Alethea Group disinformation expert Cindy Otis, "a former CIA analyst, said RT, Sputnik and other Kremlin-backed media have been writing more about QAnon, using it to fit into" a broader narrative of US decline. The Daily Beast (8/24,

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technology is clear. "You can now, with a single EFTA_R1_02208352 EFTA02722872 chip, create most of the capabilities that you would have found in Sputnik, but, of course, orders of magnitude faster," says Mason Peck, a former chief technologist at NASA and now a professor at Cornell University. The

tch was an oboe player with a concert scheduled for the next day, and he asked me to take it easy on his mouth.” kok * In October 1957, Russia sent Sputnik into space. It was the first orbiting satellite, circling the earth in 96 minutes, and making 1,440 orbits in three months. This astounding technical