Staunton, April 9 – Thirty years ago today, Soviet forces used poison gas and entrenching tools to disperse a demonstration in Tbilisi, apparently believing that force alone would be enough to stop a people committed to their own dignity and independence. But a little over two years later, Georgia and the other former Soviet republics were free. Georgians will never forget or forgive what Moscow did to them, especially now when 30 years later, “the Russian army occupies a significant part of the territory of Georgia,” Mikhail Kaluzhky says (graniru.org/Politics/World/Europe/Georgia/m.275890.html). But the events of 1989 are a reminder of how powerful a people enraged can be relative to a repressive state. Today, Georgians have paused to remember what the Soviet military did and is doing and even more the price Georgians paid not just for their freedom but for the freedom of everyone. It is entirely right and
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В Грузии вспоминают жертв трагедии 9 апреля 1989 года. 30 лет назад 21 человек, в том числе 18 женщин, погиб в столкновениях с советскими войсками во время разгона митинга на столичном проспекте Руставели. Митинг проходил под лозунгами независимости от СССР. "День единения" без единства Тридцать лет спустя многие в Грузии согласны с тем, что 9 апреля – переломное событие в новейшей истории страны, приведшее к формированию независимого грузинского государства. Несмотря на то, что на пути к независимости кавказская страна пережила многие потрясения, в том числе гражданскую войну, потерю территорий и военный конфликт с Россией. В ночь на 9 апреля на проспекте Руставели, у здания парламента Грузии, которое 30 лет назад было "Домом правительства", сотни людей по традиции собрались для
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A new study from the Army Research Lab may help AI-infused weapons and tools better understand their human operators. In World War II, the Allies had a big problem. Germany’s new bombers moved too quickly for the anti-aircraft methods of the previous war, in which soldiers used range tables and hand calculations to line up their guns. Mathematician Norbert Wiener had a theory: the only way to defeat the German aircraft was to merge the gun and its human operators — not physically but perceptually, through instruments. As Weiner explained in the video below, that meant “either a human interpretation of the machine, or a machine interpretation of the operator, or both.” This was the only way to get the gun to fire a round on target — not where the plane was but where it was going to be. This theoretical
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The first major showdown of our new era of great power competition, unfolding with accelerating speed over the past ten weeks in Venezuela, has entered a dangerous new phase. That is true, most of all, for the Venezuelan people, but also for Latin American democracies and for vital US interests in the Western Hemisphere. How this drama turns out may mark the most significant test yet of the Trump administration's credibility, following a highest-level chorus this week of President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton, who all declared – in one way or another – that Russia had to get out of the country. Vice President Mike Pence ratcheted up the pressure further on Friday, announcing at a speech in Houston with new sanctions on the state-owned oil company PDVSA as well as two
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Staunton, April 9 – Since Vladimir Putin came to power, Russia has become both absolutely and relatively weaker than its potential international opponents, not only because the world has changed and military force is less important than it was but also because Moscow has overseen the destruction of many branches of the Russian economy, Vladislav Inozemtsev says. Yezhednevny zhurnal has published yet another chapter from the economist’s new book, An Uncontemporary Country, in which he documents this argument, showing that Russia’s economy is now less important than it was compared to others and its military strength while sufficient to defend the country can do little to expand it beyond its immediate neighborhood. That reality, Inozemtsev says, Putin has tried to compensate for by spending more on the Russian military than ever before and
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