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Krikalev 2013, 100x125 cm

Sergei Krikalev, a Russian Cosmonaut who holds the record for the most time spent in space by a human being at over 803 days.  While he floated in space, the USSR collapsed and he was left in space alone for four months. He could watch from the space how his country fall into decay. In 1991, he was stranded at Mir (mir = peace in russian) for almost four additional months, when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Heheh, yes!

Fyi There's two chuvashian cosmonaut, Nikolayev and Budarin (actually manarov can also included in here but he is an azerbaijani too soooo)

The awesome Flag of Chuvashia (Russia)

from /r/vexillology Top comment: Russians are pretty good at making flags.

NATO’s War of Aggression against Yugoslavia

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

Summary:

The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia began on March 24th and ended on June 10th, 1999. It lasted 78 days.

According to various sources, up to 2,500 inhabitants of Yugoslavia lost their lives during the operation.

The official reason for the start of the operation was, allegedly, the protection of the Albanian population of Kosovo.

That is how the West interpreted the operations of the Serbian police and the military against the terrorist organization “Kosovo Liberation Army”, which controlled almost 40% of the Serbian province’s territory and violently fought against “Serbian occupiers”.

NATO assured the public that it would only target military facilities.

Yet, the result of the aggression was: 25,000 destroyed homes, 470 destroyed kilometers of roads, 595 destroyed kilometers of railway and 38 destroyed bridges.

Then: 14 damaged airports, nearly 40 damaged hospitals and clinics, almost a 100 damaged schools and kindergartens, and 176 damaged cultural monuments.

In total, 38% of bombed buildings were actually civilian.

Loses:

The overall damage is estimated to be from 30 to 100 billion dollars.

It is believed that between 1,200 and 2,500 people were killed and 6,000 people were injured.

In total, there were 2,300 air strikes on 995 buildings across the country.

About 420,000 bombs were thrown on Serbia, including those filled with depleted uranium.

The symbol of suffering of the Serbian people was the murdered three years old Milica Rakić. The house where she lived with her parents was hit by a NATO bomb.

Jamie Shea, the secretary of the Alliance’s media, called the civilians who were murdered during the NATO bombing “collateral damage”.

Epilogue:

Regardless of the foreseen disarmament of KLA terrorists, Kosovo formed its defense corps, the security forces, and ultimately an army in 2018.

Regardless of the Resolution 1244 foreseeing the territorial integrity of Yugoslavia, Kosovo still declared “independence” in 2008 with the support of a number of members of the international community.

After the arrival of international forces on Kosovo, more than 200,000 Serbs and other non-Albanian people has left the province.

Those 78 days of fear, violence, terror and destruction mustn’t ever be forgotten.

Yuri Gagarin (1960s)

The bloodroot is up and blooming. ☺️

Alexander Gerst (ESA), Serena Auñón-Chancellor (NASA), and Sergey Prokopyev (RSA) board the International Space Station at 9:01 a.m. EDT to join Expedition 56 and greet their crew members on the ISS, June 8, 2018.

How did i first get interested with russian cosmonaut-

um-- well-- im gonna tell it here.

actually this is asked by @la-francaise-de-coeur ! 

so....hmm...it started when i was on grade 5 elementary school (2015).

i read a library book IPTEK (science and technology book) on my school library. i found a part about space...im kinda curious about space...yeah...

 I go to the part "human in space". On there, i see cosmonaut Yuri gagarin, Valentina tereshkova, and astronaut Neil armstrong. i read it, and also i search them on google too. and i was like...wow...yuri gagarin and the others is pretty amazing! a space man!! great!!  he is quietly cute too....after i liked yuri gagarin and valentina tereshkova, i search another cosmonauts like Gherman titov, Andran Nikolayev, Valery Bykovsky, Alexei leonov, Komarov, and more of soviet old era cosmonauts.

when i go up to grade 6, i have a smartphone and i started to post space memes and arts on my instagram. on my school, nobody is know about yuri gagarin. they are just know neil armstrong, kinda sad tbh-- but on instagram, i found an indonesian friend who like/know yuri gagarin too! i was happy! because im indonesian! and the first space otp i made is, gagarin and tereshkova.HEHAHAHAaa~

When i graduated, into middle high school (2016) i watching a tv and they are talking about muslim astronauts. and i found one muslim cosmonaut named...Musa Manarov.

im very curious about him and i go to google to read a wiki about him. from there, i started to know his crew mate, Viktor Afanasyev. viktor...he is calm, cold looking person, and cool! i see manarov and afanasyev are looking friendly together on MIR...and...i started to ship them. i was so exited to draw their fanarts. *screams*

and from that too, there is another cosmonaut named helen sharman and sergei krikalev. krikalev... he is cool! i started to like him <3 and his crewmate Volkov and Jean-Loup chretien. since 2017, i starting too search new-era cosmonauts/astronauts like Sergey Volkov, Oleg Kornienko, Soichi Noguchi, Yuri Malenchenko, Scott Kelly, Chris hadfield, Paolo Nespoli and many more...

Its been 3-4 years i liked them. The cosmonauts. Cosmonauts.

Because they’re cool and an amazing hero.

from mother russia.

i would wrote a book. lmao.

Andrian nikolayev, Sergei krikalev, toyohiro akiyama, Sergey volkov, and Gennady padalka.

Nikolayev, i think he is underrated cosmonaut so i feel so pity to him ;-; i like his eyebrows! MUAHAHAHAHAH

Krikalev, i was amazed when i know he is spends 803 days in space! that is was so long! and, his birthday month w/ day was actually same with me! im 27 August 2003 and he is 1959

Akiyama, pleASe he is the first japanese in space why you all keep saying mamoru mohri is the first hey wtf :((except you saying first JAXA, i will be ok ;-;)

Volkov, i know he is the son of cosmonaut aleksandr volkov, he is best son rookie ever! i feel so sad when he is leaving the detachment of cosmonaut.; -;

Padalka, he is super great! he is spending 879 days in space and beat krikalev who break the record before padalka. I think is just great! but...he is choose to resign (just like volkov). because he feel on the future he wil never have opportunity to fly again. this breaks my heart. really.

but, his hair style tho ;))

To be honest, they are really cute when smilling eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhEEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHE

My heart feels warm everytime i thinking about them.

Who are y’all’s favorite astronauts/cosmonauts, and why?

Soviet dogs Strelka, Chernushka, Zvyozdochka and Belka who travelled to space. Moscow, 1961. Photo by Vera Zhikharenko/TASS.