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  2. Sputnik (news agency) - Wikipedia

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    Sputnik ( Russian pronunciation: [ˈsputnʲɪk]; formerly Voice of Russia and RIA Novosti, naming derived from Russian спутник, "satellite") is a Russian state-owned [1] news agency and radio broadcast service. It was established by the Russian government -owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya on 10 November 2014. [2] [3] With headquarters ...

  3. Sputnik (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    Sputnik ( Russian: Спутник) was a Soviet magazine published from 1967 until 1991 [1] by the Soviet press agency Novosti in several languages, targeted at both Eastern Bloc countries and Western nations. It was intended to be a Soviet equivalent to Reader's Digest, publishing news stories excerpted from the Soviet press in a similar size ...

  4. Sputnik (film) - Wikipedia

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    Sputnik (Russian: Спутник) is a 2020 Russian science-fiction horror film directed by Egor Abramenko in his feature directorial debut. It stars Oksana Akinshina as a young doctor who is recruited by the Soviet military to assess a cosmonaut who survived a mysterious space accident and returned to Earth with a dangerous organism living ...

  5. Sputnik crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Sputnik crisis was a period of public fear and anxiety in Western nations about the perceived technological gap between the United States and Soviet Union caused by the Soviets' launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. [1] The crisis was a significant event in the Cold War that triggered the creation of NASA and the ...

  6. List of spacecraft called Sputnik - Wikipedia

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    Sputnik 1. Sputnik (Спутник, Russian for "satellite") is a spacecraft launched under the Soviet space program."Sputnik 1", "Sputnik 2" and "Sputnik 3" were the official Soviet names of those objects, and the remaining designations in the series ("Sputnik 4" and so on) were not official names but names applied in the West to objects whose original Soviet names may not have been known at ...

  7. Sputnik 1 - Wikipedia

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    Sputnik 1 ( / ˈspʌtnɪk, ˈspʊtnɪk /, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1) was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc batteries ...

  8. Andrew Feinberg - Wikipedia

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    Born. ( 1982-07-22) July 22, 1982 (age 41) Washington, D.C., U.S. Education. BA, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Employer. The Independent. Andrew Feinberg is an American journalist and White House Correspondent whose work has appeared in The Independent, Newsweek, Politico, Washington Business Journal, and other news outlets.

  9. Sputnik and Pogrom - Wikipedia

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    Sputnik and Pogrom was launched in 2012 as a community in the Russian social network VKontakte, and next year a separate website was created. Sputnik's main product was long texts about historical events and ethnic conflicts. [4] The purpose of the publication is the transformation of Russia into the national state of the Russian people, the ...