标题: 2022.05.09 普京在俄罗斯的胜利日游行中发表讲话 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-5-9 21:22 标题: 2022.05.09 普京在俄罗斯的胜利日游行中发表讲话 The world in brief
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Vladimir Putin spoke at Russia’s Victory Day parade, which commemorates the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazism in the second world war. He presented the invasion of Ukraine as the ideological successor of that campaign. On Sunday Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said that around 60 people were killed after a bomb hit a school in the east of the country. Fighters inside the Azovstal steel plant in the devastated southern city of Mariupol vowed in a press conference that they would never surrender to Russia but heavily criticised the Ukrainian government for their plight.
Sri Lanka’s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned after weeks of protests calling for regime change amid the country’s worst economic crisis since independence. Police imposed a nationwide curfew after Rajapaksa loyalists stormed a protest site in Colombo, the capital, injuring more than 76 people.
G7 countries agreed to phase out or ban Russian oil during a virtual meeting with Mr Zelensky on Sunday. America had already banned imports of Russian oil, gas and coal. President Joe Biden also unveiled new sanctions against three Russian media outlets and executives at Gazprombank, the country’s third-largest lender. Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, and Jill Biden, America’s first lady, made visits to Ukraine.
Chuck Schumer, the majority leader of America’s Senate, said that lawmakers there will vote on a bill to codify abortion rights into federal law on Wednesday. The vote is a response to the draft decision, leaked on May 2nd, which appears to show that a majority of Supreme Court justices intend to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion a consitutional right. But the Senate’s filibuster means that the vote is doomed to fail.
Authorities in Shanghai and Beijing appeared to tighten covid-19 controls even more over the weekend, amid China’s worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic. There were no formal announcements but residents in parts of both cities were suddenly told to stay home. Meanwhile the country’s exports growth fell to its lowest level in almost two years, as covid once again severed supply chains.
The British government urged political parties in Northern Ireland to join a new power-sharing executive after the Irish nationalist Sinn Féin party won the most number of seats in local elections for the first time. To secure the participation of the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party, the government said it was willing to address the DUP’s unhappiness with post-Brexit trade agreements.
Polls opened in the Philippines’ presidential election, which pits Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, the son of a former dictator, against Leni Robredo, the current vice-president. Opinion polls point to a comfortable victory for Mr Marcos despite his links to the brutal dictatorship. The election commission said that there had no been no issues during voting so far.
Fact of the day: £100bn, a conservative estimate for the amount of money laundered through Britain each year. Russian loot is a major contributor. Read the full article.
Putin’s big victory parade
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Tanks, troops and missiles flooded the streets of Moscow on Monday as Russia celebrated Victory Day. The annual military parade ostensibly honours the 20m or more Soviet citizens who died during the second world war. But President Vladimir Putin has long turned this national holiday to his own ends.
This year the fanfare was particularly pointed. Speaking in Red Square, Mr Putin tied his campaign in Ukraine to the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazism in 1945, portraying both as triumphs of good over evil. “You are fighting for your motherland, for its future,” he told the assembled crowd. Mr Putin’s rhetoric was bellicose but familiar. He did not issue a formal declaration of war, as some had predicted. Nor, with fighting grinding on in the Donbas, did he issue any sort of victory declaration.
Mr Putin hopes the spectacle will swell domestic support for his “special military operation”. With victory still far off, he needs his countrymen on his side.
Germany’s leader remembers the war
Given the events in Moscow on Monday, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, suggested last week that Olaf Scholz should show solidarity by visiting Kyiv at the same time. The German chancellor has not been to the Ukrainian capital since the war started, in part because Mr Zelensky refused to welcome Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German president, over his previous warm relations with Russia. Mr Scholz did not take up the invitation, and gave a televised address to the German people on the evening of May 8th, when Germany marks the anniversary of the end of the second world war.
Mr Scholz will stay in Berlin on Monday for a meeting with the newly re-elected French president, Emmanuel Macron. (It is a long-established tradition for a new president to make his first foreign visit to Germany.) Their agenda is long: European sovereignty in defence and energy, the western Balkans, China, trouble in the Sahel and, of course, Ukraine.
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Marcos mark two
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Barring an earth-shattering surprise or an unprecedented polling error, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, the son of the Philippines’ former dictator of the same name (minus the bongs), will win by a landslide in an election on Monday.
That is a remarkable comeback for the Marcos family, who, having looted the state and imposed martial law, were run out of the country in 1986. They returned in 1991, after the death of Marcos senior, and have been worming their way back into politics ever since. Skilful propaganda has promoted the idea that the Marcos dictatorship was a “golden era” of stability and high growth.
Mr Marcos’s campaign has been feeble. He has no policy agenda. And his probable victory is deeply divisive. Many Filipinos remain wedded to the ideals of the revolution that kicked out his father. They may not accept the result. Attempts to disqualify Mr Marcos are making their way to the Supreme Court. Whatever it decides, there will be uproar.
Why the world needs to restore its land
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Delegates are gathering in Ivory Coast on Monday to discuss ways to improve the state of the world’s land. It is an urgent issue. A recent UN report found that humans have degraded as much as 40% of land globally, sapping it of water, natural vegetation and fertile soil. Most of the damage is done by farming. That puts food systems at risk as well as lowering biodiversity and the Earth’s ability to sequester carbon, hastening climate change.
Water scarcity is at the centre of the problem being mulled at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. More than 2.3bn people, or 30% of the global population, currently do not have enough. By 2050, the UN predicts that will be the case for half the people in the world. But restoration and good land management make places more resilient to drought. A programme by the Ethiopian government, planting trees and shrubs and changing where animals graze, increased food production by more than 13% in the most drought-ridden areas.
Return of the samurai
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More than 30 years ago Peter Janssen bought his first Japanese katana sword at a flea market in Berlin. Thus began a lifetime of collecting weapons and armour, with a focus on objects belonging to Japan’s warrior elite. On Sunday he opened a new museum to show off the largest collection of authentic samurai artefacts outside of Japan.
Located in the Auguststrasse art district, the Samurai Museum Berlin replaces a smaller one that closed during the pandemic. Around 1,000 objects, bought in Japan, Europe and America, have been chosen to illustrate the life, art, and traditions that shaped society in feudal Japan for around 1,000 years. Artefacts include the armour of more than 70 high-ranking samurai warriors, as well as 200 helmets, 160 swords and masks. Exhibits are embedded with digital installations including a replica of a Japanese noh theatre. Thousands more items from Mr Jassen’s extensive collection are not even on display.
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