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Moldova has admitted that her nation is concerned about the possibility of Vladimir Putin expanding his invasion there. Natalia Gavrilita said that the war in Ukraine, which both Moldova and Russia share a border with, had caused concern.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“For All Mankind” has been renewed for Season 4 at Apple.The announcement was made Friday as part of the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con. Production on the new season is scheduled to begin in August. Season 3 of the series debuted on the streamer on June 10.“For All Mankind” is an alternative history series that explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended.

EXCLUSIVE: A little known episode during World War II involving three of the most powerful political figures of the time that could’ve changed the future of the Western world is the subject of a limited series in development at Sony Pictures Television starring and produced by Emmy winner Jharrel Jerome. Thriller drama Night Of the Assassins, based on the New York Times bestseller by Howard Blum, comes from Blum, Terminator 3 director Jonathan Mostow, the Emmy-winning Homeland and 24 duo Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa and their executive Glenn Geller.

In partnership with Amex Gold UnsignedNME and American Express have announced the final shortlist for their American Express Gold Unsigned initiative, with the six selected artists set to play at a decisive live showcase in London this week – check out the unsigned artists below.Launched back in May as a new partnership between NME and American Express, Amex Gold Unsigned will give one new artist the chance to soundtrack and feature in a forthcoming American Express advertising campaign.The chosen artist will also receive a £10,000 sync fee, mentoring from music industry professionals and a slot at Wilderness Festival on August 5.The six shortlisted artists for Amex Gold Unsigned are:Hailing from Reading, Split The Dealer – real name Sam Brett – describes his sound as “fundamentally honest, walking the wire between 90s influence and modern pop”. Brett recently became an official Sennheiser artist, while his single ‘Dreamstate’ featured on the popular gaming app Dream League Soccer 2022.The music of Megan Buckley, AKA Megzz, spans R&B, pop and neo-soul.

Ukraine should start to develop their own nuclear weapons to end the Russian invasion.Volodymyr Zelensky has been advised to either build an arsenal or buy weapons in from other nations by a Loughborough University boffin. The conflict with Russia continues to rage on, having already witnessed four months of fighting that has led to the deaths of thousands of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers during the relentless bombardment of the country's cities.READ MORE: Putin worried after Ukraine’s new long-distance Kamikaze drones cause chaosFurthermore, seven million people are now understood to be internally displaced within the country whilst almost five million refugees have fled since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February.Ukrainian government officials also estimate that 1.3million of their people, including 223,000 children, have been deported against their will to Russia.Dr Paul Maddrell, an international history and international relations lecturer at Loughborough, believes Vladimir Putin's actions are designed to dismember Ukraine, weaken its military and reverse the expansion of NATO.And he also reckons the establishment of a Ukrainian nuclear arsenal could be the best method of preventing Putin from continuing to pursue those goals.

Joe Biden is sending thousands more troops to Europe to help NATO form a new Iron Curtain designed to protect other countries from a Russian invasion.Speaking at the NATO summit in Madrid, Biden also vowed to send fighter jets, air defences and ships to a new military base in Poland, with US soldiers being also deployed in Romania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – other nations deemed vulnerable to a Vladimir Putin attack following his invasion of Ukraine.Finland and Sweden, meanwhile, were formally invited to join the NATO alliance at the meeting with Turkey dropping their opposition to the body's expansion.READ MORE: Adult star's 'mysterious' death after she's discovered tied to a tree naked in forestIn addition, NATO has pledged to boost troop numbers by 4,000 on the critical eastern flank of the alliance, while the organisation's high-alert force – consisting of soldiers who have not been deployed but would be immediately ready for battle should war across Europe break out – has been increased from 40,000 to 300,000.

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion has claimed that around 80% of Russian soldiers sent to clean it up died from being there.Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, which is available to watch on Sky Documentaries right now, highlights newly-discovered archive footage and witness accounts of the aftermath of the tragedy.And it shows that the former Soviet leaders sent around 5,000 men on a suicide mission to clean up the site – which the soldiers were unaware of at the time.Director James Jones said: “The Soviet government played fast and loose with the truth.“They thought they would be able to film the clean-up and look like a country full of heroic people. “There were government-made documentaries, released in Soviet theatres, one year after the explosion, but it was dangerous for the film-makers to have gone so close to the radiation.“One of the directors died, as a result of radiation poisoning, one month after his film premiered.”According to official Soviet Union records, 31 people died from the explosion in Prypyat, but the true figure is though to be anywhere upwards of around 5,000 to around 10,000, if deaths as a result of the clean-up and after effects are included.

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes,” premiering Wednesday on HBO, exposes the shocking lies the Soviet government fed its citizens in an effort to downplay the dangers of the Chernobyl explosion — even as officials who knew better protected themselves.Among the recently discovered and previously unseen footage is video originally shot to be propaganda as the country scurried to downplay the severity of the event. “The Soviet government played fast and loose with the truth,” director James Jones told The Post.

Ukraine begin to bite.In a move that helps Russian exhibitors save face and avoid expulsion from a major global industry body, the Russian Association of Cinema Owners (RACO) said it had submitted an application to “exit UNIC.” It comes after Hollywood majors exited the Russian market following President Vladimir Putin’s decision late February to invade Ukraine, turning Russia into an international pariah state. The move broadens Russia’s isolation from the rest of the world at a time when its domestic cinema is facing near total collapse.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorKarlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival’s industry section, Eastern Promises, has unveiled its lineup of 35 film projects, which will be showcased during the Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch, First Cut+ Works in Progress and Odesa International Film Festival Works in Progress presentations.

warheads that couldn’t be detected until after they were launched.Rick Fisher, a senior fellow on Asian military affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Centre, warned that China's rail system could potentially support “a thousand additional warheads capable of reaching European and American targets”.The idea of hiding compact nuclear missiles, similar to the weapons used by nuclear submarines, on trains is not in itself new.The concept was used by the Soviet Union between 1987 and 2005, and the North Korean military has released images of a train-based missile test in the past year.North Korean news agency KCNA released photographs showing a missile being launched from the top of a camouflage-painted train in a mountainous area.But the Chinese approach – using super-fast 220mph trains instead of conventional rolling stock – makes the threat even greater and raises the prospect of a strike triggering World War Three.“Compared with heavy-haul railways, high-speed railways operate faster and more smoothly,” said a paper from researchers at the Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu.“This means that on high-speed rails, the mobility, safety and concealment of military vehicles would be greater.”The super fast trains could beat deployed anywhere on China’s 23,000 miles of high speed track, making surveillance of potential launch sites almost impossible.The launchers, currently being stored in freight cars, could potentially be housed in containers painted to resemble passenger trains, making them even harder to spot.China is believed to have conducted a test launch of a DF-41 missile from a train in December 2015.The 65ft DF-41 is an 80-ton ICBM which can deliver up to 10 nuclear warheads or penetration aids

paid 20.0Ξ — which equates to $39,535 — for an NFT titled “Devotion.” The work is one of “The Wild Within” series (which consists of 13 NFTs in total) by artists Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell, who capture abandoned buildings from the USSR. The image shows a dilapidated Soviet-era sanatorium in Georgia — specifically, the once-famed Tskaltubo resort, which was a popular health destination known for its therapeutic waters.“This one stops me. James Joyce said that’s a good thing.

McDonald's new Russian owners have put up a list of new names for the burger chain after the fast-food giant pulled out of the country. The fast-food chain announced last month they had sold nearly 850 restaurants to Russian billionaire Alexander Govor after closing stores in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

space disasters while trying to shed light on what’s out there. Here are five disasters you should know about.READ MORE: NASA sending 'female' mannequins to space for experiment instead of actual womenOn January 27, 1967 the US was preparing to deploy astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee on its first manned space mission.However, all three astronauts were killed after a fire broke out in their command module during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.The fire was caused by a stray spark in the pure oxygen environment.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“January,” Viesturs Kairiss’s autobiographical film set in the former Soviet Union, has been acquired for world sales by The Yellow Affair. The movie will have its world premiere at Tribeca in the international narrative competition. The coming-of-age film sheds light on the political upheaval in the early 1990’s.

Die Zeit. “It simply isn’t right to romanticise Russia with lyrics like: ‘I follow the Moskva/ Down to Gorky Park…Let your balalaika sing’“.The band have changed the lyrics to: “Now listen to my heart/ It says Ukrainia/ Waiting for the wind to change,” which are projected on a screen behind the band as they perform.Released in 1991, the perestroika power ballad is the German hard rockers’ most famous song; it was voted song of the 20th century by viewers of the public broadcaster ZDF in 2005.Even though the song was released over a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is widely remembered as the soundtrack to the era of economic and social changes in the former Soviet Union that heralded the end of the cold war.Meine said he composed the words on September 3 and 4, 1989, a month after Scorpions performed at the Moscow Music Peace festival.Elsewhere in the interview with Die Zeit, Meine discussed his friendship with Hanoverian ex-chancellor turned Russian gas lobbyist Gerhard Schröder, whose fifth wedding party he attended in 2018.“I haven’t spoken with Gerhard Schröder for a while,” Meine said.

Putin has ordered troops to fire a terrifying and “unstoppable” new hypersonic missile at targets in the White Sea, Moscow claims.The destructive Zircon weapon has been developed over a period of at least four years and is capable of hitting locations a whopping 620 miles away at a speed of 7,000mph.Russia ’s Ministry of Defence told Kremlin-backed news organisation TASS: "Today, the lead frigate of Project 22350 Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov fired a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile at a sea target position in the White Sea from the Barents Sea.” They boasted their missile was able to go "so high that it prevents the opponent's air defence system from detecting its impact in time". It comes as the evil Russian President intensifies his invasion of Ukraine with a horrific “scorched earth” policy that aims to eliminate opposition in the eastern European country.

Vladimir Putin’s nuclear “doomsday arsenal” could obliterate life on Earth – but the Russian President may not be able to deploy the missiles alone, an expert has claimed. With the war in Ukraine having dragged on for over three months, the threat of Putin deploying his nuclear missiles has so far prevented NATO forces from intervening directly in the conflict.

Christopher Vourlias In the days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, organizers of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival quickly shifted gears to offer whatever support they could.

Ukraine and explode one after the other, as the war rumbles on. The aerial footage shows one BMP stationary and with smoke billowing from it as the tank behind hastily tries to overtake, before appearing to detonate a mine underneath its tracks.The two Soviet vehicles then appear to explode, sending smoke and debris rushing into the sky.

Apple TV+’s “For All Mankind” was built on a fascinating alternative historical premise: “what would have happened if the global space race had never ended” after the Soviet Union succeeds in the first crewed Moon landing ahead of the United States. So, in other words, it just keeps escalating and escalating, in part because the U.S.