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Sputnik. 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rachel Marsden. Rachel Marsden (born December 2, 1974) is a Canadian conservative political columnist, television commentator and university lecturer, based in Paris. She is the former host of a talk show on Sputnik News [1] and is a columnist for the Toronto Sun. [2] Her column is syndicated by Tribune Content Agency [3] [4] and she is a ...
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 ...
Sputnik 2 was a 4-metre-high (13 ft) cone-shaped capsule with a base diameter of 2 metres (6.6 ft) that weighed around 500 kilograms (1,100 lb), though it was not designed to separate from the rocket core that brought it to orbit, bringing the total mass in orbit to 7.79 tonnes (17,200 lb). [7]
Стопкоронавирус.рф. The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Russia is an ongoing mass immunization campaign against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in response to the ongoing pandemic in the country. Russia became the first country to begin a ...