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Last time we spoke about the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki amidst relentless Allied aerial campaigns, chaos engulfed Japan. Prime Minister Suzuki's cabinet debated surrendering to avoid annihilation while fearing for the imperial family's future. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union launched an unexpected invasion of Manchuria, rapidly advancing and catching Japanese forces off guard. As negotiations unfolded, a group of military conspirators, led by Major Hatanaka, attempted a coup to halt the surrender, believing they could rally support. They seized the Imperial Palace but failed to find the Emperor's recorded surrender speech amid the chaos. In a decisive moment, Emperor Hirohito accepted the Potsdam Declaration, stipulating the emperor's continuation, thus sealing Japan's fate. That same day, the world learned of Japan's capitulation, marking the end of the Pacific War. The once powerful nation now lay in ruins, yet the Emperor's decision bore the weight of a nation saved from further destruction, embodying a fragile hope for the future amidst the horrors of war. This episode is the Battle for South Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  As we previously discussed, the Japanese Empire made the difficult decision to surrender on August 14, amid the turmoil of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and South Sakhalin. The following day, this decision was announced to the world. However, in Manchuria, General Yamada's Kwantung Army chose to continue fighting until they received a clear ceasefire order. At this moment, several developments unfolded. General Hongo's 44th Army was on a forced retreat toward the Hsinking-Mukden line under General Ushiroku's command, leaving their 107th Division trapped behind Soviet lines. Meanwhile, General Iida's 30th Army was redeploying to Hsinking, which was starting to be evacuated, while General Uemura's 4th Army had orders to withdraw to Meihokou, taking over positions left by the 30th Army.  The advance of enemy armored columns in the west was severely hindering the evacuation of Japanese nationals. On the 10th, the Kwantung Army requested the Manchukuoan Government to facilitate the evacuation of Japanese residents in Hainking and its surroundings. They directed the Continental Railway Command to prepare ten trains for this purpose, with the first train scheduled to depart from Hsinking that same day. However, the Manchukuoan Government found it nearly impossible to carry out the withdrawal swiftly. They managed to transport only the families of officers and civilians linked to the army, and these families had to flee with just a few hours' notice, taking almost nothing but the clothes on their backs. By the 12th, Hsinking was in a state of chaos. The advance of enemy armored units, coupled with the retreat of the main force of the 44th Army, led to the evacuation of the capital by the Kwantung Army General Headquarters. This turmoil coincided with the arrival of the first refugee trains, carrying Japanese evacuees from the western border areas, causing widespread panic among local residents. Many hurried to the already overcrowded train station, desperate to escape the unfolding crisis. In the face of enemy pressure, the 80th Independent Mixed Brigade and the 119th Division continued to resist assaults at Hailar and Pokotu, respectively. The 123rd Division and the 135th Independent Mixed Brigade were heavily engaged in the fortified regions of Sunwu and Aihun, and the 136th Independent Mixed Brigade was directed to reinforce Tsitsihar, while the 134th Division retreated to Fangcheng. General Shimizu's 5th Army prepared for a last stand at Mutanchiang, while the isolated 124th Division made plans to withdraw. The 132nd Independent Mixed Brigade had already retreated to Tachienchang, and the 128th Division was getting ready to confront the enemy advance at Lotzokou, with General Murakami's 3rd Army holding strong in the Tumen fortified region. Meanwhile, the Nanam Divisional District Unit successfully repelled an amphibious invasion in Chongjin, and the 88th Division's 125th Regiment staunchly defended Furuton on South Sakhalin. In a desperate bid to avoid further disaster, Yamada finally instructed Ushiroku to adhere to their original plan and prepare for a withdrawal to the Hunjen area, even if it meant leaving Japanese citizens and their cities vulnerable to the approaching Soviets. Ushiroku hesitantly agreed to the order but never got the chance to act on it. On August 15, Marshal Vasilevsky's offensive advanced much like the previous days, facing an enemy that continued to resist fiercely. To counter this, orders came to intensify the assault to gain control of key operational and strategic points as quickly as possible. In Marshal Malinovsky's Transbaikal Front, General Pliyev's cavalry-mechanized units encountered heavy opposition from the Inner Mongolian 3rd, 5th, and 7th Cavalry Divisions at Kanbao. Meanwhile, General Danilov's 17th Army pressed toward Chihfeng but was hindered by water shortages, intense heat, and challenging sandy terrain. General Managarov's 53rd Army began its advance toward Kailu, while General Kravchenko's 6th Guards Tank Army continued its march along two fronts. The 7th Guards Mechanized Corps moved east toward Changchun, while both the 9th Guards Mechanized Corps and the 5th Guards Tank Corps advanced southeast toward Mukden. Notably, General Lyudnikov's 39th Army finally captured Tepossi and Wangyemiao.  Heavy Japanese resistance persisted in the sector of the 36th Army, notably in the Hailar Fortified Region and along the road and rail line through the Grand Khingan Mountains leading to Pokotu. The Japanese 119th Infantry Division put up a determined defense of Pokotu, successfully delaying the Soviet forces of the 2nd Rifle Corps from August 15 to 17, despite heavy rainfall. Meanwhile, in the rear of the 36th Army, the fighting in Hailar remained intense. The 86th Rifle Corps employed heavy artillery to systematically dismantle enemy strongholds in the hills to the northwest and southwest of the city. Position after position fell to relentless artillery bombardments, combined with sapper and infantry assaults. Ultimately, the Soviets extinguished the last vestiges of Japanese resistance in Hailar on August 18 when the remaining garrison of 3,827 men surrendered. Concurrently, in Marshal Meretskov's 1st Far Eastern Front, forward detachments of General Zakhvatayev's 35th Army secured Poli. General Beloborodov's 1st Red Banner Army broke through the frontline of the 135th Division and initiated an assault on the last Japanese positions just outside Yehho. Meanwhile, General Krylov's 5th Army, having successfully breached the Ssutaoling heights the previous evening, launched attacks against the 126th Division's positions at Aiho but was ultimately repelled by the defenders. In light of these developments, Generals Kita and Shimizu decided to order a withdrawal toward Hengtaohotzu, which they executed successfully after sunset, leaving behind some units to cover the retreat. Further south, General Chistyakov's 25th Army split into two columns at Heitosai. The 17th Rifle Corps and the 72nd Mechanized Brigade advanced west toward the Taipingling Pass, while the 39th Rifle Corps, along with the 72nd and 257th Tank Brigades, headed southwest toward Wangching. The 17th Rifle Corps effectively breached the main defenses of the Japanese 128th Division, forcing it to retreat to second-line positions southwest of Taipingling. On the morning of August 15, enemy air activity against Army Headquarters intensified significantly. Meanwhile, the Army Commander and several staff officers set out via Pataohotzu to inspect the defenses in the Hoeryong area, where the 101st Regiment was retreating from the Chonghak sector. At noon, while at the headquarters of the 127th Division in Pataohotzu, General Murakami and his accompanying staff listened to the Emperor's broadcast announcing the termination of the war. Opinions among the officers were divided regarding the veracity of this broadcast. After a brief discussion, they decided to continue military operations as per existing instructions until they received a formal cessation order. Later that night, a formal order arrived from First Area Army Headquarters, directing that all active resistance be halted, though self-defense measures were still to be implemented if necessary. Around the same time, a report came in from the 1st Mobile Brigade indicating that their positions in the Wangching area, about 25 miles northeast of Army Headquarters at Yenchi, were under attack by a sizable Soviet tank force. In response, a counterattack force was hastily assembled, consisting of two infantry battalions from the 127th Division. They were directed to advance to Wangching along the Yenchi-Chiulungping road to confront the enemy tanks. These battalions likely included the 3rd Battalion of the 280th Regiment and the 3rd Battalion of the 281st Regiment. Additionally, the 88th Rifle Corps took control of Hunchun and crossed the Inanho River, where they encountered well-entrenched Japanese forces from the 112th Division. To further pressure the enemy, the 258th Rifle Division crossed the Tumen River at Hunyong to attack the Japanese right flank. In General Purkayev's 2nd Far Eastern Front, General Mamonov's 15th Army continued its two-pronged advance toward Chiamussu, while General Pashkov's 5th Rifle Corps pushed forward to Poli. Meanwhile, General Teryokhin's 2nd Red Banner Army assigned some elements to maintain the siege of Sunwu and Aihun while forward detachments bypassed these fortified regions, moving south toward Nencheng and Peian. In South Sakhalin, General Cheremisov's 16th Army faced fierce resistance from Japanese forces at Furuton. Admiral Andreyev's Northern Pacific Flotilla prepared for an amphibious landing at Toro, while the Pacific Fleet, under Admiral Yumashev, successfully landed Major-General Vasily Trushin's 13th Naval Infantry Brigade at Chongjin in the early hours of August 15. This effort aimed to relieve the besieged Soviet naval units and gradually push back against the defending Japanese forces. On August 16, the entire Soviet force, commanded by Lieutenant-General Sergey Kabanov, secured Chongjin city and its port after overcoming strong resistance, just as the 393rd Rifle Division was arriving in the area. Simultaneously, Andreyev's fleet departed from Sovetskaya Gavan and approached Toro in the early hours of the day. At 05:17, 141 marines from the initial reconnaissance detachment successfully landed ashore quietly, and by 06:00, they had taken the port with virtually no opposition. The reconnaissance group then advanced about three kilometers east, where they encountered heavy resistance; meanwhile, the rest of the marine battalion landed successfully by 10:00. After securing Shakhtyorsk at midday, the Soviet marines began their push south toward Esutoru, their main objective, while a supporting infantry battalion landed behind them. To the north, the 56th Rifle Corps managed to break through and capture Furuton, though it failed to seize the strategically significant Happo Mountain. In Manchuria, the 88th Rifle Corps continued its attacks on the 112th and 79th Divisions but was unsuccessful. The 39th Rifle Corps column advanced toward Tumen and Yenchi, while the 17th Rifle Corps column effectively expelled Japanese forces from the Taipingling area to secure the pass. By evening, units from the 1st Red Banner Army cleared Mutanchiang, and the 5th Army units moved south of the city to continue their southwest advance toward Ningan. The 15th Army executed a coordinated amphibious assault, successfully capturing Chiamussu. The 39th Army advanced along the railroad from Wangyemiao to Changchun, with its main force ultimately securing Taonan by the end of the day, while other units reduced the Halung-Arshaan fortified region. Finally, forward detachments of the 5th Guards Tank Corps and the 9th Guards Mechanized Corps secured Tungliao and Kaitung, respectively. On August 17, Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi, on behalf of the Emperor, arrived at Hsinking to deliver the official ceasefire order. However, this did not cancel ongoing operational missions, as the order stipulated that the cessation of hostilities did not apply to unavoidable acts of self-defense during enemy attacks made before the completion of armistice negotiations. Tokyo's orders demonstrated that Yamada was authorized to conduct on-the-spot negotiations for an armistice with the Soviets. Consequently, the Manchurian Campaign continued amidst the negotiations. Pliyev's Soviet-Mongolian units successfully defeated the Inner Mongolians at Kanbao; the 17th Army overcame light opposition from the 108th Division to occupy Chihfeng; the 39th Army concentrated its forces at Taonan while the 94th Rifle Corps mopped up rear areas; and the 36th Army defeated the 119th Division to capture Pokotu. Simultaneously, the 2nd Red Banner Army directed heavy artillery and air strikes to reduce the Aihun and Sunwu Fortified Regions, while the 15th Army initiated a push south along the Sungari River toward Sansing. The 363rd Rifle Division passed through Chihsi, with the 66th Rifle Division focusing on Poli. Units from the 1st Red Banner Army advanced northwest toward Harbin, and the 72nd Rifle Corps marched southward along the east bank of the Mutan River, attempting unsuccessfully to cross the river north of Ningan. The 17th Rifle Corps pursued the 128th Division, and forward elements of the 10th Mechanized Corps moved sixty kilometers from the Taipingling Pass to secure the critical rail and road junction at Tahsingkou. Additionally, the reinforced 72nd Tank Brigade intercepted the counterattacking force of the 127th Division at Nianyantsun. The 39th Rifle Corps broke through the northern defenses of the 79th Division to seize the outskirts of Tumen, while the 88th Rifle Corps successfully pushed aside enemy defenders at Mayusan to occupy Onsang. At South Sakhalin, as the marine force surrounded Esutoru, the 22nd Independent Machinegun Company was deployed to support the marine assault, which quickly penetrated the urban area and secured the city by midday. Meanwhile, fighting continued around Mount Happo, where the 214th Tank Brigade was dispatched south toward the ultimate objective of Toyohara. However, given the distance involved, it was decided to conduct a second amphibious assault on the port of Maoka. On August 18, Yamada finally issued the ceasefire orders to the 1st, 3rd, and 17th Area Armies, as well as to the 4th Army and the 2nd Air Army. His chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Hata Hikosaburo, met with Marshal Vasilevsky in Harbin to discuss procedures for disarmament, the protection of Japanese nationals in Manchuria, and related matters. Meanwhile, the Kwantung Army Headquarters made extensive efforts to relay as much information as possible about the termination of hostilities and disarmament to its subordinate commands using all available communication methods. However, these efforts were hindered by the wide dispersal of forces, many of which initially refused to surrender. General Higuchi's 5th Area Army received the ceasefire orders on August 17. Although he quickly notified his units—particularly those in Sakhalin and the Kuriles, war continued in these islands for a short period as he sought to prevent a potential invasion of Hokkaido. In Sakhalin, Major Yoshio Suzuki, the Chief of Staff of the 88th Division, received Higuchi's combat order on the afternoon of August 16, preparations for ceasefire were already underway, such as the disbandment of mobilized units, the discharge of some troops, and the disposal of the regimental flag. The division had no tanks or aircraft, and certainly no anti-tank or anti-aircraft weapons that could withstand Soviet forces. In light of this, Suzuki quickly ordered the re-arming of units and the occupation of positions, in accordance with the desire of Mineki and Higuchi to prevent the fall of South Sakhalin and a possible invasion of Hokkaido. Civilians, at this point, were already voicing complaints, wondering if the military was still going to continue fighting. After the surrender of the 125th Infantry Regiment, the Japanese command in the Northern District was effectively assumed by the staff of the 88th Division stationed at Kamishikika. During the fighting on the central military road, by the morning of August 17, evacuation of the civilian population from Kamishikika had been completed, and the town was burned to the ground by Japanese forces' scorched earth tactics, along with an air raid by 20 Soviet aircraft. Kamishikika was abandoned on August 20, marking the start of a full retreat. The construction of a defensive line involving the destruction of the Uro Bridge and the Chidori River Bridge was considered but ultimately abandoned due to the presence of evacuees. Meanwhile, in the Kuriles, a new operation was unfolding. According to Vasilevsky's orders, once operations against Manchuria and South Sakhalin were sufficiently advanced, a small force from the Kamchatka Defense Region, supported by naval units from the Petropavlovsk Naval Base, was to conduct amphibious assaults on the Kuril Islands in preparation for a future landing at the port of Rumoi on Hokkaido's west coast On August 15, President Truman and Soviet Premier Stalin agreed that Japanese forces north of the 38th Parallel would surrender to the Soviets, while those to the south would surrender to the Americans. Stalin's agreement surprised the US, as there was little chance of American forces landing on the Korean peninsula at that time. In what many scholars interpret as an attempt to achieve reciprocal generosity from Truman, Stalin proposed amending the order to include the northern half of Hokkaido and all of the Kuril Islands in the region of surrender to Soviet forces. This northern portion, he stated, should be demarcated by a line drawn ‘from the town of Kushiro on the eastern coast . . . to the town of Rumoe (Rumoi) on the western coast . . .', with both towns included in the occupation area However, Truman only acquiesced concerning the Kuriles, honoring the pact reached at Yalta, while specifying that all the islands of mainland Japan were to surrender to General MacArthur. Nonetheless, concerned by the exclusion of the Kuriles from the original agreement, Stalin instructed Vasilevsky to organize landings to occupy the islands. This mission was assigned to Purkayev's 2nd Far Eastern Front and Yumashev's Pacific Fleet, which, in turn, designated Major-General Aleksei Gnechko's Kamchatka Defense Region and Captain Dmitri Ponomarev's Petropavlovsk Naval Base to execute the first landings on Shumshu and Paramushir, followed by a subsequent amphibious assault on Onekotan. These inexperienced commanders had limited time to plan for their operations, assemble the necessary commercial vessels for transportation, and hurriedly gather the army units dispersed across Kamchatka. Ultimately, the primary unit chosen for the landings was Major-General Porfiry Dyakov's 101st Rifle Division, supplemented by a battalion of marines. Meanwhile, Ponomarev managed to gather an invasion flotilla of 64 vessels. Although the Soviets had air superiority, it was unreliable due to the peculiar climatic conditions. “There were very peculiar climatic conditions in the Far East and Sakhalin; almost every airfield had its own special microclimate. In the coastal zone, frequent outbursts of moist sea air, forming a curtain of thick fog, caused a lot of trouble.”. The limited firepower of Ponomarev's flotilla forced the Soviets to land on the northeast corner of Shumshu, which could be targeted by the coastal guns at Cape Lopatka. Additionally, Gnechko planned a diversionary landing on the southeast side of the island. Opposing the Soviets, Higuchi had Lieutenant-General Tsutsumi Fusaki's 91st Division garrisoning the northern islands of Shumshu and Paramushir, the 41st Independent Mixed Regiment on Matsuwa Island, the 129th Independent Mixed Brigade on Uruppu Island, and Lieutenant-General Ogawa Gonosuke's 89th Division stationed on the southern islands of Etorofu, Shikotan, and Kunashiri.  Shumshu is the northernmost island in the Kuril chain, separated from Cape Lopatka, the southernmost tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, by the 11-kilometer-wide First Kuril Strait. Covering an area of approximately 388 square kilometers and roughly oval in shape , Shumshu's proximity to Soviet territory, similar to its larger neighbor to the south, Paramushir, ensured that it was strongly defended. The garrison on Shumshu comprised about 8,500 troops, whereas the larger island boasted a garrison of approximately 14,500. The strait between the two islands narrows to about 2.5 kilometers at its smallest point, thus allowing these garrisons to provide mutual support. As Slavinsky notes: “Shumshu and Paramushir, with their naval bases located opposite each other on both sides of the Second Kuril Strait, were, in essence, a single key position.” The capture of Shumshu was crucial to the success of subsequent island operations. While there were several airfields on these islands, they housed very few aircraft, which had been withdrawn earlier to the Japanese main islands in preparation for the anticipated “final battle” with the Americans. However, Shumshu was defended by a tank force from the 11th Tank Regiment, commanded by Colonel Sueo Ikeda. This force consisted of thirty-nine medium tanks, including nineteen Type-97 Chi-Ha tanks and twenty Type-97 ShinHoTo Chi-Ha (improved Type-97) tanks, alongside twenty-five Type-95 Ha-Go light tanks. Both Shumshu and Paramushir were equipped with permanent defensive works along the coast and inland. On Shumshu, these defenses included 34 bunkers and 24 pillboxes within several powerful strongpoints, featuring around 100 guns of varying calibers, some reaching up to 100mm. Approximately 300 prepared firing points were established for both heavy and light machine guns. Most of Shumshu's coast is bordered by cliffs, leading to a concentration of the strongest defenses in areas deemed vulnerable to amphibious assault. Notably, a battery was installed in the wreck of the Soviet tanker Mariupol, which had become stranded on the beach between Cape Kokutan and Cape Kotomari in 1943. Although the island is relatively flat, it possesses several hills with sides that are nearly bare of trees, and these heights also housed additional strongpoints. Shumshu features 120 kilometers of roads, which facilitated terrestrial communication between various points. Additionally, the garrison constructed numerous dummy installations to mislead reconnaissance efforts. Nevertheless, Ponomarev's flotilla departed from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at approximately 05:00 on August 17, moving slowly and stealthily toward their objective in foggy conditions. This weather ultimately forced Gnechko to cancel the planned diversionary landing. In any event, the first landing craft approached the beach at 04:22 hours on 18 August still hidden in the murk, but were forced to halt some 100–150m from shore in water up to 2m deep; they had been overloaded which prevented them getting closer in. The troops of the advanced detachment (two companies of marines, a maritime border guard company, and a submachine gun company) had then to wade, heavily burdened, to dry land. This went on undisturbed until personnel on one of the landing craft opened fire; this, spreading to the other ships, alerted the defenders, who replied with ‘promiscuous' machine-gun fire. Nevertheless, by 05:00 hours, and having suffered only ‘insignificant' losses, the advanced detachment was ashore and its main force, under Major Pyotr Shutov, was moving off the beach into the interior of the island. Two groups of marines moved left and right to deal with enemy positions on the capes flanking the landing ground. They managed to destroy several firing points, but were too few to overcome the stronger resistance nests protecting the gun positions. A series of hills inland formed the initial objective of the advance. Behind them, Dyatlov's first wave faced heavy bombardment from Japanese artillery, suffering significant casualties as the troops struggled to scramble ashore by 09:00. The second wave experienced a similar fate but managed to disembark by 13:00, joining the first wave in advancing on the high ground to the southwest. This second wave successfully repelled a series of Japanese tank counterattacks, resulting in the loss of Colonel Sueo. Despite being pushed back somewhat, the Soviets held their position while their aircraft targeted the naval bases on the island's southern side, aiming to hinder reinforcements from Paramushir. By nightfall, Gnechko's forces had secured a beachhead approximately 4 kilometers wide and 5 kilometers deep, while assault groups successfully destroyed Japanese artillery positions on Cape Kokutan and Cape Kotomari. Meanwhile, Kabanov's new Southern Defense Region command was ordered to quickly land naval units at Odaejin and Gensan to prevent the Japanese from evacuating their forces from Korea to the Home Islands. Consequently, a small naval force from the 13th Naval Infantry Brigade departed from Chongjin, successfully landing unopposed at Odaejin at 08:00 on August 18. Elsewhere in eastern Manchuria, the 25th Army consolidated its hold on northeastern Korea, dispatching the 10th Mechanized Corps west toward Tunhua and Kirin and northwest toward Tungchingcheng amidst the surrender of Murakami's 3rd Army. The 72nd Rifle Corps successfully crossed the Mutan River north of Ningan, while units from the 1st Red Banner Army and the 5th Army were deployed to receive and process surrendering Japanese units of Shimizu's 5th Army. To the north, the 2nd Red Banner Army maintained pressure on the Aihun and Sunwu Fortified Regions, leading to the surrender of the 123rd Division, although the 135th Independent Mixed Brigade continued to resist at Aihun. Be that as it may, the Japanese artillery positioned at Cape Kokutan and Cape Kotomari wreaked havoc on the second echelon, which was comprised of the 373rd Rifle Regiment. During this engagement, a patrol boat and four landing craft were lost, while eight others sustained serious damage. Once again, Soviet troops were forced to improvise ways to reach dry land; however, this time, the echelon's commander, Colonel P.A. Artyushen, along with his headquarters, managed to land via a torpedo boat. It took until 13:00 hours to fully disembark the second echelon, by which point its forward units had linked up with those forces advancing on the high ground to the southwest. By then, Artyushen had assumed command of all the forces ashore. While the number of troops was considerable, they still lacked heavy weapons, with only four 45mm anti-tank guns having been landed. Unsurprisingly, the Japanese counterattacked as soon as possible, with the advanced forward units under Shutov bearing the brunt of the assault. In a reversal of the combat situations previously encountered throughout the war with Japan, Soviet infantry now found themselves facing several tank attacks from the Japanese. One of these assaults was personally led by Colonel Sueo Ikeda, the commander of the 11th Tank Regiment, who was reported to be waving a samurai sword and Japanese flag from the turret, according to some accounts. Fortunately for the Soviets, these Japanese tanks were relatively weak compared to the T-34. While they posed a threat to unsupported infantry, they proved vulnerable to Degtyarev PTRD-41 anti-tank rifles and RPG-43 anti-tank grenades. The tank-led attacks were ultimately repelled, with Colonel Sueo perishing in the fighting. Despite being pushed back somewhat, the Soviets managed to withstand the onslaught. For his heroism during this challenging combat situation, in which he was wounded three times, Shutov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, along with the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal. Despite being somewhat pushed back, the Soviets held their ground while their aircraft targeted the naval bases on the southern side of the island to hinder reinforcements from Paramushir. The weather cleared sufficiently in the late morning, allowing Soviet air strikes to commence that afternoon. These strikes involved groups of eight to sixteen aircraft and were primarily directed at the Kataoka and Kashiwabar naval bases, successfully preventing the transfer of Japanese reinforcements from Paramushir. However, the sky remained cloudy enough to hinder any close battlefield support. As Zakharov et al. described it, the situation on the ground “remained tense.” The thinning fog later allowed seven Japanese aircraft to appear at 10:30 hours, attempting to strike at the shipping gathered off the landing beach. Their first strike targeted the Kirov, but it was unsuccessful, and the attackers were driven off by anti-aircraft fire. A second attempt at 12:00 hours focused on the minesweeper T-525, which also failed, resulting in two of the attacking aircraft being shot down by gunfire.  By nightfall on 18 August, it was evident that the Soviet landing had succeeded to the point where the forces would not be driven back into the sea. The invasion force had established a beachhead approximately 4 kilometers wide and 5 kilometers deep, and they were capable of defending this position against any immediate Japanese counterattacks, despite most of their artillery still being stuck offshore. Gnechko, stationed at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, ordered that enough artillery be transported ashore overnight to resume the offensive, with the goal of occupying the island by the end of 19 August. He also dispatched several self-propelled barges and kungas (shallow-draft boats used for fishing or transport) to assist with the unloading, although these vessels could not arrive until the following morning. To eliminate further artillery attacks on shipping, assault groups were formed to attack and destroy the Japanese strongpoints on Cape Kokutan and Cape Kotomari during the hours of darkness. Shortly after midnight on 17 August, a second order regarding the cessation of hostilities was received from the First Area Army, directing that all fighting be stopped. At daybreak, General Murakami dispatched his intelligence chief, Lt. Col. Fujimoto, to Chiulungping to inform the Soviet tank battalion commander of the end of hostilities. Simultaneously, he ordered all divisions under his command to cease all combat operations. At approximately 16:00 hours, the Soviet tank battalion commander arrived at the Army Officers Club in Yenchi, where he conferred with Major General Hanjiro Iketani, the Army Chief of Staff. The following day, General Iketani traveled to Wangching to conduct armistice negotiations. The 72nd Rifle Corps finally crossed the Mutan River north of Ningan, while units from the 1st Red Banner Army and the 5th Army were deployed to receive and process the surrendering Japanese units of Shimizu's 5th Army. Since the Army began its withdrawal, communications with Area Army Headquarters in Tunhua had been completely disrupted. On the morning of the 17th, a member of the Manchurian Telegraph and Telephone Company's Harbin office sent a message via railway telephone concerning disarmament, stating that he had been asked by the First Area Army Headquarters to relay the information. The Army Commander and his staff, however, suspected it might be another ruse from the enemy's fifth column. They agreed to exercise caution in addressing the matter and decided to send Staff Officer Maeda to Area Army Headquarters in Tunhua by railway gasoline engine car to verify the truth. Colonel Maeda proceeded to the railway station, and while preparing to depart, he received a railway telephone call from Staff Officer Tsumori at Area Army Headquarters regarding the cease-fire order. Subsequently, around 14:00 hours, the Army convened a meeting with representatives from each unit to announce the cease-fire orders. That evening, Soviet forces began entering Hengtaohotzu and immediately started disarming Japanese forces.  Looking west, the bulk of the 36th Army advanced southward and seized the railroad station at Chalantun amid the surrender of the 119th Division. The 86th Rifle Corps, after several days of intense artillery bombardment, finally extinguished the last remnants of Japanese resistance at Hailar, forcing the 80th Independent Mixed Brigade to surrender. Meanwhile, the 39th Army forces prepared for transport to Changchun and then on to the Liaotung Peninsula. The 17th Army moved toward the coast, capturing Pingchuan and Linguan before reaching the coastline at Shanhaiguan, directly across from the Liaotung Peninsula. Additionally, Pliyev's Soviet-Mongolian forces approached the outskirts of Kalgan, where they encountered a small contingent of the China Expeditionary Army. Indeed, with the surrender of the Kwantung Army, the war was coming to an end. However, several independent units, including the one mentioned, would continue to resist into the last days of August, thereby prolonging the Pacific War by another week. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. In August 1945, amidst Japan's turmoil, the Soviet Union surprisingly invaded Manchuria. As chaos ensued, Japanese forces in South Sakhalin faced robust Soviet resistance. Ultimately, Japan's surrender shattered its imperial power, marking a historic end to the Pacific War, leaving a nation in ruins yet igniting a fragile hope for the future beyond the horrors of conflict.

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Ilya Ponomarev is a Russian-Ukrainian politician who was a member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 to 2016. After the 2022 Russian invasion, Ponomarev joined Ukraine's Territorial Defence Forces, and categorically denounced the invasion. While a member of the Russian State Duma, he was the only deputy not to vote in favour of the Russian gay propaganda law and to vote against Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014. He is now in exile in Ukraine and is a spokesman with insurgent Russian forces (National Republican Army) fighting on the side of Ukraine. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN Events in 2025 - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run a minimum of 12 events in 2025, and potentially many more. We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------LINKS:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ponomarev https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002113qhttps://www.fpri.org/contributor/ilya-ponomarev/BOOKS:Does Putin Have to Die? The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine (Hardcover – 19 Jan. 2023)ARTICLES: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/19/ilya-ponomaryov-we-have-to-capture-the-kremlin-there-is-no-other-way-a83772 ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian MP who's now a key leader of an anti-Putin armed resistance movement active both inside and outside Russia. As Putin's assault on Ukraine grinds on, how significant is this Russian resistance?

Back in April, we brought you a full episode describing Jim's reflections following his second trip to Ukraine for two weeks in March. Here again are his descriptions about the reality of where the war stands, how complicated relationships can be in this conflict, and his visit to a truly fascinating drone factory.First, Jim explains why he wanted to go back to Ukraine a little more than six months after his visit last summer. He also updates the war effort, the relentless Russian "meat waves," the impact of U.S. aid  being on hold, and what conditions for an end to the war might be under consideration. They also discuss Ukraine's policy of not holding elections while under martial law. Would it be better to demonstrate a commitment to democracy regardless of the circumstances or is it simply impossible to hold elections under the current circumstances?Next, Jim recounts his meeting with Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the Russian Duma who is now working with Ukraine against the Russians. His tactics are certainly fodder for debate but Jim explains why what Ponomarev is doing is quite courageous.Finally, Jim describes his visit to a secret drone factory somewhere in Ukraine and shares as much as he can about the innovations happening to assist the war effort and the people working there. Jim may be the first western journalist to visit the plant.  

About Alexander PonomarevAlexander Ponomarev is a dynamic entrepreneur and tech innovator who is revolutionising the restaurant industry in the Middle East with cutting-edge technology solutions. As the CEO of Syrve MENA, Alex has over 11 years of experience in hospitality IT, transforming restaurant automation from London to Hanoi and now the MENA region. His journey from humble beginnings in Russia to leading a technological transformation in the restaurant sector is a testament to his passion for innovation and excellence in the industry.About this EpisodeIn this exciting episode with Alexander Ponomarev, the CEO of Syrve MENA, we learn about his fascinating journey from growing up in the Urals of Russia to becoming a leading figure in restaurant automation in the Middle East. Alex talks about his background in languages and how his passion for hospitality IT began unexpectedly, leading to a career that has spanned continents and transformed industries.We dive deep into the inspiration behind Alex's transition to hospitality IT, his innovative approach to restaurant automation, and the unique challenges and successes he has encountered along the way. Listen now to gain a wealth of knowledge and be inspired by Alex's journey and his commitment to enhancing the restaurant industry through technological innovation.Quotes12:48 - You should be a talented person to some extent to be able to cook nice food.23:54 - Technologies are relieving our lives from routine.26:34 - Technology which you are going to be using along the way is a very important thing, so you should be paying a lot of attention to that.28:40 - You need to pay more attention to the people you love, no matter how busy you are. 29:32—You should be persistent in finding what you love because many people get frustrated when they try to do so.30:13 - Be persistent in pursuing what you are passionate about.Useful LinksWebsite:https://www.syrve.com/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/syrve.menaFacebook: https://web.facebook.com/alexander.ponomarev89/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-ponomarev-765b1262/The Matrix Green Pill Podcast: https://thematrixgreenpill.com/Please review us: https://g.page/r/CS8IW35GvlraEAI/review

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it was the largest military attack on a European country since World War II. Reliable casualty figures are hard to come by, but U.S. intelligence officials estimated last year that as many as 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians had been killed in the conflict, with an estimated 15–30 million refugees.  Congress has allotted $175 billion in aid for Ukraine since the war began.  But Ilya Ponomarev says that cash and defensive weapons alone won't liberate Ukraine or impede future Russian aggression. He insists that Vladimir Putin must be deposed by force. And he is actively working to do just that.  Ilya Ponomarev was a member of Russia's Federal Assembly (Russia's national legislature) from 2007 to 2016. He was the only member to vote against Putin's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Exiled to Ukraine since 2016, he is the political head of the Freedom of Russian Legion, a paramilitary group made up of Russian dissidents and defectors fighting for Ukraine. He argues that nonviolent resistance is not enough and that radical steps are needed to overthrow Putin.  In today's conversation, Ponomarev talks about his life as a dissident and what it is like being a target for assassination, his previous relationship with Putin, and why democracy has failed to take root in Russia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ilya Ponomarev is a Russian-Ukrainian politician who was a member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 to 2016. After the 2022 Russian invasion, Ponomarev joined Ukraine's Territorial Defence Forces, and categorically denounced the invasion. While a member of the Russian State Duma, he was the only deputy not to vote in favour of the Russian gay propaganda law and to vote against Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014. In 2015, while in the US, Ponomarev was formally charged in Russia with embezzlement, which he called politically motivated. In 2016, he was impeached for not performing his duties, and he went into exile in Ukraine, where he obtained Ukrainian citizenship in 2019. Ilya Ponomarev has endorsed acts of sabotage and arson in Russia and claims to be a spokesman with insurgent Russian forces (National Republican Army) fighting on the side of Ukraine. ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/19/ilya-ponomaryov-we-have-to-capture-the-kremlin-there-is-no-other-way-a83772 ---------- BOOKS: Does Putin Have to Die? The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine (Hardcover – 19 Jan. 2023) ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ponomarev ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Yuri Felshtinsky https://youtu.be/PWGC2il6svU Konstantin Samoilov https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc Grigor Atanesian https://youtu.be/oxDAieyJt9I Maria Snegovaya https://youtu.be/qL6lAj2UsPk Olga Solovyeva https://youtu.be/ABNXnXV-7ic ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Join Jim and Greg as Jim offers a fascinating recap of his recent return to Ukraine and describes what was different this time around. Plus, Jim's recollection of a conversation with a former member of the Russian Duma who is now allied with Ukraine, and a very interesting look at the innovations happening right now to help Ukrainian soldiers.First, Jim explains why he wanted to go back to Ukraine a little more than six months after his visit last summer. He also updates the war effort, the relentless Russian "meat waves," the impact of U.S. aid  being on hold, and what conditions for an end to the war might be under consideration. They also discuss Ukraine's policy of not holding elections while under martial law. Would it be better to demonstrate a commitment to democracy regardless of the circumstances or is it simply impossible to hold elections under the current circumstances?Next, Jim recounts his meeting with Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the Russian Duma who is now working with Ukraine against the Russians. His tactics are certainly fodder for debate but Jim explains why what Ponomarev is doing is quite courageous.Finally, Jim describes his visit to a secret drone factory somewhere in Ukraine and shares as much as he can about the innovations happening to assist the war effort and the people working there. Jim may be the first western journalist to visit the plant.Please visit our great sponsors:4Patriothttps://4Patriots.com/martiniGet the Deluxe 3-Month Survival Food Kit and the peace of mind your family deserves.  Free shipping on orders over $97. Fast Growing Treeshttps://fastgrowingtrees.com/martiniUse code Martini to save an additional 15% off on your first order.  

Ilya Ponomarev is a Russian-Ukrainian politician who was a member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 to 2016. After the 2022 Russian invasion, Ponomarev joined Ukraine's Territorial Defence Forces, and categorically denounced the invasion. While a member of the Russian State Duma, he was the only deputy not to vote in favour of the Russian gay propaganda law and to vote against Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014. In 2015, while in the US, Ponomarev was formally charged in Russia with embezzlement, which he called politically motivated. In 2016, he was impeached for not performing his duties, and he went into exile in Ukraine, where he obtained Ukrainian citizenship in 2019. Ilya Ponomarev has endorsed acts of sabotage and arson in Russia and claims to be a spokesman with insurgent Russian forces (National Republican Army) fighting on the side of Ukraine. ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/19/ilya-ponomaryov-we-have-to-capture-the-kremlin-there-is-no-other-way-a83772 ---------- BOOKS: Does Putin Have to Die? The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine (Hardcover – 19 Jan. 2023) ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ponomarev ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Yuri Felshtinsky https://youtu.be/PWGC2il6svU Konstantin Samoilov https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc Grigor Atanesian https://youtu.be/oxDAieyJt9I Maria Snegovaya https://youtu.be/qL6lAj2UsPk Olga Solovyeva https://youtu.be/ABNXnXV-7ic ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Both Sams start with reminding of some podcast news (1:15). Then they talk a little podcast news with Connor Bedard's injury (2:07). Then they start with Hurricanes news of the WJC ending for Unger-Sorum and the reassignment of Ponomarev (3:41). Then they recap the Washington (9:18) and St Louis games (15:22). For the last part of the episode is their interview with both Caniac Sessions and The Warning Take (24:58). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Both Sams start with reminding of some podcast news (1:15). Then they talk a little podcast news with Connor Bedard's injury (2:07). Then they start with Hurricanes news of the WJC ending for Unger-Sorum and the reassignment of Ponomarev (3:41). Then they recap the Washington (9:18) and St Louis games (15:22). For the last part of the episode is their interview with both Caniac Sessions and The Warning Take (24:58).

Welcome to the thirteenth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomarev. Lev Ponomarev trained and worked as a physicist in the USSR before devoting more time and energy to issues of human rights in the Soviet Union and subsequently in the Russian Federation. He was one of the founders of « Memorial » in 1988, and soon became one of the foremost figures in human rights in Russia. In the dying days of perestroika, Lev Ponomarev went into politics and in 1990 co-founded the opposition movement « Democratic Russia ». He was a People's Deputy at the end of the Soviet era and a deputy of the first convocation of the State Duma in the new Russia after the collapse of the USSR in 1991. In 1997 he founded the not-for-profit « For Human Rights » and in 2007 he set up the « Foundation in Defence of Prisoners' Rights ». He was a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group from 1996 until its closure last year. In 2019 his organisation « For Human Rights » was shut down by the authorities. On December 28, 2020, Lev Ponomarev's name was in the first list of individuals designated as ‘media foreign agents' by the Russian Justice Ministry.The recording was made on 22 December 2023.You can also listen to the podcast on our website, or on SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Anchor and YouTube. My questions include:Lev Aleksandrovich, where were you when you learned that Russia had launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Do you remember how you felt at that moment?If I'm not mistaken, you now live in Paris. Could you tell me how this came about?Your NGO « For Human Rights » was closed down in 2019 and a year later you yourself became a “Media – Foreign Agent”. How did you feel when all this was happening and why did the authorities do this?You have always been someone who warned about the dangerous developments of the Putin regime. Do you think you had insights that others did not? Does everyone agree with you now?What do you think was Boris Yeltsin's biggest mistake?Presidential elections are scheduled for next March – although we already know that they will not be “free and fair”. What do you think civil society should do in the run-up to the election – and during the election itself?To what extent do people in emigration perceive things differently from those who stayed in Russia? Is this difference noticeable to you? How do you think it affects relations between those who have left Russia and those who remained?It is hard not to be pessimistic about human rights in the near future, not least because Russia's war against Ukraine is still ongoing. But in the longer term, are there grounds for optimism?

In this episode of Building the Future, Dan is joined by Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of Russia's parliament – the State Duma, to discuss his book Does Putin Have to Die? as well as his efforts to lay the foundations for a democratic future in Russia.

Dr Sergey Ponomarev &  Dr Stefania Fedyah will discuss with Lembit the "SIRIUS" space project that they've been involved in. They will try to answer Lembit's questions "Is it really possible for humans to live in space? And how soon?" Later, Nicholas will discuss with Lembit the Argentine administration of President Alberto Fernández expressing its gratitude towards the Group of 77 (G77) and China for their support regarding the South American country's claim over the Falkland's Malvinas Islands. While during the Conservative Party Conference, the UK's Foreign Secretary told an audience that he would “make absolutely clear” that the UK supported the islands' right to self-determination. Nicholas and Lembit will dive into the debate. GUEST 1 & 2 OVERVIEW: Dr Sergey Ponomarev - Head of Laboratory of Immune System & Physiology; Executive Director of SIRIUS Project. Dr Stefania Fedyah - Space Medicine Doctor & Crew Surgeon for Mars Isolation mission (she spent 4 months in isolation) The SIRIUS project simulates the conditions of a long-term manned space mission in order to study the biomedical and psychological problems in humans associated with isolation and restriction of space. GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: Nicholas Roberts - Deputy Editor of Penguin News. Penguin News is the only newspaper produced in the Falkland Islands.

Geering up for the start of the Hurricanes regular season Collin talks about some training camp news. Support the Blog: Caneshomeice.com Follow us on social media or check out the blog: https://linktr.ee/HomeIceAdvantage Consider adopting or fostering a pet today: https://pets.wakegov.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/homeiceadvantage/support

Both Sam's start the episode with the great goal that Logan Cooley had for Arizona (0:53). Then the talk the only canes news that happened that Ponomarev got hurt (2:01). Then for the majority of the episode they go on and preview the hurricanes season (9:41). They then end with answering your questions (40:00).If you have any questions or just want to contact us please email us at: thecaniacreport@gmail.com

Both Sam's start the episode with the great goal that Logan Cooley had for Arizona (0:53). Then the talk the only canes news that happened that Ponomarev got hurt (2:01). Then for the majority of the episode they go on and preview the hurricanes season (9:41). They then end with answering your questions (40:00). If you have any questions or just want to contact us please email us at: thecaniacreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JazzChur_Exlie_23/2 zu Gast im JazzPodcast: Schweizer Musiker*innen komponieren und produzieren Duette mit Künstler*innen rund um den Globus. In der zweiten Ausgab in diesem Jahr, treffen wir auf die Stimmkünstlerin Saadet Türköz und den Saxophonisten Anton Ponomarev. Beide haben zweit spannende Partner für ihrer Klangwerke ausgesucht.

Non solo Belgorod. Dopo l'incursione nella regione da parte dei "dissidenti" russi, l'Ucraina segnala altre incursioni nelle quali non sarebbero coinvolti i contingenti ucraini. Abbiamo intervistato Ilya Ponomarev, ex parlamentare della Duma russa, oggi si definisce portavoce degli insorti contro Putin.

durée : 00:52:41 - L'Heure bleue - L'Heure bleue reçoit Lev Ponomarev, co-fondateur de l'ONG Memorial, co-récipiendaire du Prix Nobel de la paix 2022, et Alisa Safina, artiste plasticienne et demandeuse d'asile en France.

Assistant Professor Kirill Ponomarev once trained and dreamt of becoming a professional soccer player but also found his love of math, which brought him to the field of econometrics and to the United States. He talks about how he benefitted from conversations with his fellow graduate students, forming study groups as he completed his PhD, and now, the work that he does as a faculty member at the University of Chicago.

Gli analisti si stanno interrogando se esista davvero la fantomatica Nra, l'Armata Repubblicana Nazionale che per il dissidente russo Ponomarev, ex deputato della Duma, è responsabile dell'attentato contro Darya Dugina.

Live on "February Morning" @Утро Февраля with one of the Russian opposition leaders, Ilya Ponomarev English translation #PrivateerStation(in Russian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU3vJOTRTrE)Olexiy Arestovych (Kyiv): Advisor to the Office of Ukraine President: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksiy_ArestovychOfficial channel: ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjWy2g76QZf7QLEwx4cB46gIlya Ponomarev (Kyiv): Journalist. Russian Opposition Leader. Ukraine Territorial Defense serviceman. ex: Vice-President of Yukos Oil Company (owned then by Khodorkovsky), Congressman of Russian Parliament, IT Enterpreneur.Official channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/%D0%A3%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8F/Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_PonomarevSocial media:► https://www.facebook.com/rosanticenter► https://t.me/rosanticenter► https://vk.com/utrofevrlya ► https://twitter.com/utrofevralya24

Nathan hosts an AMA session with Vlad Ponomarev of Everscale on this live episode of Crypto Conversations. They talk about Everscale's crazy transaction speed, making complex technology easy to use, and the utility that "Ethereum killers" need to have to succeed! Everscale (EVER) → https://everscale.network/ (https://everscale.network) or https://twitter.com/Everscale_net (@Everscale_net) If you love the Daily Crypto Watch, definitely check out https://open.spotify.com/show/5fu7RirTU7oDgmFFQxuYcQ?si=cee06bdefa574d83 (NFT 101) with Matt Ryan for everything NFT-related, available wherever you get audio content. Want to go beyond the headlines? https://www.bitmart.com/en?r=besmart (Sign up for a BitMart account) TODAY and start trading crypto NOW! Your daily dose of crypto news is always available on https://twitter.com/BitMartExchange (Twitter), https://www.facebook.com/bitmartexchange/ (Facebook), and https://t.me/BitMartExchange (Telegram) as a graphic. Remember to follow, like, and subscribe to all our social media for the latest update on everything BitMart. https://twitter.com/BitMartExchange (Twitter) | https://twitter.com/BitMartResearch (BitMartResearch) | https://www.facebook.com/bitmartexchange/ (Facebook) | https://t.me/BitMartExchange (Telegram) | https://www.tiktok.com/@bitmart.exchange (TikTok) | https://instagram.com/bitmart_exchange?utm_medium=copy_link (Instagram) | https://discord.com/invite/RTT4vweX2X (Discord)

Our guest on the podcast this week is Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomarev (pictured, left, with the late Andrei Babushkin). Lev Ponomarev is a human rights activist and head of the For Human Rights movement and a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group. He also participated in the creation of the Memorial Human Rights Center. As a legal entity, the For Human Rights Movement was liquidated by a November 2019 decision of the Russian Supreme Court. Lev Ponomarev became one of the first private individuals to be included in the registry of "media foreign agents" when the Russian Ministry of Justice included him in the corresponding list on December 28, 2020.This podcast is in Russian. You can also listen to the podcast on our website, SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Anchor and YouTube. The questions we ask Lev Ponomarev include:1 Andrei Babushkin, the well-known human rights defender, died recently - on the night of May 14. You knew him well for many years. What kind of person was he?2 When did you leave Russia and what made you take this difficult decision?3 What is the situation like for human rights defenders who still live and work in Russia today?4 You were one of the organizers of the peace movement in Russia. How strong is this movement?5 How difficult is it to continue your work outside of Russia?6 How long can Russian propaganda be effective in the face of Russia's enormous human and material losses during the war?7 What effect do sanctions have inside Russia?8 Many people now use the word "fascism" to describe Putin's regime in Russia. Would you use this term?9 You have advocated democratic reforms in Russia since at least the late 1980s. Why have these reforms - at least to date - failed so badly?10 How do you see future developments?Sergei Nikitin writes on Facebook: " Lev Ponomarev said, 'The atmosphere in the country now is like, well, they're not shooting us yet, but... What is there to say? I've been squeezed out, I have been forced to go abroad. The attacks were almost daily. But I wasn't beaten up once, thank God. I have to thank those guys who attacked me. They showed humanism, so to speak. Well, they poured something smelly over me, and I had to throw away my jacket and trousers. The cops stopped me in the metro, told me I was on the federal wanted list, and then they drove me around town and let me go. In general, I realized I had to leave.' In our latest podcast on Rights in Russia, Simon and I talked with Lev Ponomarev. We remembered Andrei Babushkin, who has died recently, discussed the human rights situation in Russia and considered possible scenarios for the future.

Ponomarev, Ismaik, Kivran: Regelmäßig tauchen Investoren im deutschen Fußball auf. Gerade in der 3. Liga haben sich ambitionierte Geldgeber zuletzt die Klinke in die Hand gegeben. Doch die Förderer sind keine selbstlosen Gönner und die Vereine begeben sich in waghalsige wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten.Von Constantin Ecknerwww.deutschlandfunk.de, Sport am SamstagDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

Ponomarev, Ismaik, Kivran: Regelmäßig tauchen Investoren im deutschen Fußball auf. Gerade in der 3. Liga haben sich ambitionierte Geldgeber zuletzt die Klinke in die Hand gegeben. Doch die Förderer sind keine selbstlosen Gönner und die Vereine begeben sich in waghalsige wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten.Von Constantin Ecknerwww.deutschlandfunk.de, Sport am SamstagDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

 Vlad Ponomarev is the CEO of Broxus – one of the core developer teams of the Everscale network and architects of a cross-chain bridge platform, network-native DEX and much more. Commercial strategy, B2B sales and marketing professional with over 10 years of industry experience.  Everscale is the most scalable network in DeFi. With the capacity to process over a million transactions per second, Everscale is able to offer users some of the fastest transaction speeds paired with fractional fees. The Everscale ecosystem includes a cross-chain bridge platform with a unique Universal Bridge mechanism that facilitates liquidity transfers to and from virtually any network, a native DEX with some of the highest APY rates in DeFi on its staking and farming pools, and native wallets. To learn more about the technology visit Broxus.com and join the community on Twitter and Discord. 

Ilya Ponomarev is an entrepreneur, a former member of the Russian duma, a political adversary of Vladimir Putin, a friend of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, and a resident of Ukraine, currently fighting for his life and the future of his adopted homeland.During our conversation, Ilya talks about his political career in Russia, Russian vs. American culture, his assessment of the character and personality of both Putin and Zelenskyy, Russia's intelligence failure and miscalculation prior the war, the lies perpetrated by Putin to justify the invasion, his view that Ukraine is winning and will win the war, the risk of a nuclear exchange, his message for America and the free world, and his belief that Putin will be dead within one year.I met Ilya in 2015 when he was visiting San Francisco to give an interview at the World Affairs Council. He had recently been banished from Russia, best known for being the Russian Duma's lone dissenting vote - 445-1 - against Russia's annexation of Crimea. He is one heroic example out of millions in Ukraine: a man fighting for democracy and freedom, and willing to risk his life for them.------------Support this podcast via VenmoSupport this podcast via PayPalSupport this podcast on Patreon------------Show notesLeave a rating on SpotifyLeave a rating on Apple PodcastsFollow "Keep Talking" on social media and access all episodes------------(00:00) Introduction(02:18) Ilya's personal and political background(07:54) Surprise at the invasion of Ukraine(11:44) Who is Vladimir Putin?(13:47) Experiencing the invasion: February 24, 2022(17:37) Who is Volodymyr Zelenskyy?(21:31) The lies within Putin's argument for invasion(27:41) Russian soldier's beliefs about the war(32:35) How might the Russian narrative about the war crumble?(35:07) How has Ukraine succeeded in Kyiv?(40:41) What daily life is like during the war(44:16) Ilya's message for the Russian people(46:32) What Ukraine needs to win the war(49:09) The risk of a nuclear exchange(53:26) The best-case outcome for Ukraine(56:38) Putin's potential successor(1:03:54) Ilya's potential future in a future Russia(1:05:01) A cause worth dying for: "Do what you feel you need to do, and let things happen."

We last checked in with former Russian lawmaker Ilya Ponomarev about a month ago, as the Russian military began its invasion of Ukraine. Now, with things looking much different and many things not going to plan, we check back in for Dispatch #2 from inside Ukraine. Ilya Ponomarev, who was forced into self-exile from Russia following his solitary vote against the annexation of Crimea, has spent years living in Kyiv supporting governance efforts and leading new ventures. As someone who has directly interacted with Vladimir Putin and who has an intimate knowledge of the government's functioning and processing, his analysis of the current situation is both important and alarming. According to Ponomarev, Putin is a "dead man walking," without option to escape his current predicament, but this of course still makes him very dangerous. On the disastrous decisionmaking which led to the invasion, Ponomarev points out the Covid-19 pandemic as having severely narrowed Putin's available sources of information, leading him to depend on just two of his most hawkish advisors and relying on numerous low-quality history books which he has frequently cited in statements to media. What direction will the war take from here? What can be the possible negotiated outcomes? Amsterdam and Ponomarev discuss in detail.

Gabriel Gatehouse speaks to Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the Russian parliament who is fighting in Ukraine – against Russia. Ponomarev has long said he wants to bring down Vladimir Putin, but was once on the Russian government payroll. He has had his feet in many camps: among the Russian elites, inside the popular opposition, and now with Ukraine's defence forces. What will the repercussions be of this war be, in Ukraine and in Russia?

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with Vancouver, Washington native Igor Ponomarev as he tells us about the night he defended himself and his friends against a bully with an AK-47. Then we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss Beto O'Rourke's ever-changing position on the Second Amendment. Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and retired federal agent Mike Willever as he talks to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Title music by Jorikbasov.

Our guest this week on the podcast is Vitaly Ponomarev, head of the Central Asia programme of the Memorial Human Rights Centre. Since 2005 Vitaly Ponomarev has also been head of the Centre's monitoring programme, ‘Combating fabrication of criminal cases of Islamic extremism in Russia.' In the podcast we discuss the human rights situation in the countries of Central Asia, the relationship between Russian policy in the area of human rights and that of the Central Asian countries, the situation of refugees and the fabrication of criminal cases of Islamic extremism in Russia. The questions discussed are: 1) Where does your interest in eastern countries come from? 2) How do human rights in the Russian Federation compare with those in Central Asia? 3) To what extent do Russia and the countries of Central Asia copy each other's policies in the area of human rights - for example Russia and Tajikistan or Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan? 4) There are reports that there are a large number of religious and political prisoners in Uzbekistan. Could you shed some light on this situation? 5) What is the situation of refugees persecuted in Central Asia and Russia? How realistic is the threat of forced return in the post-Soviet space? 6) You have been banned from entering Kyrgyzstan since 2017. How did this come about and how common is this phenomenon in relation to researchers such as yourself? 7) To what extent are anti-extremist laws and practices based on the Russian model being used as a tool of suppression? 8) Please tell us about the monitoring programme "Countering fabrication of criminal cases of Islamic extremism in Russia. How does it work and what are the main trends in this area? 9) Does this mean Russia is drifting towards the East? How do you see the perspectives for human rights in Russia? This podcast is in Russian. You can also listen to the podcast on our website, SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Anchor and YouTube. Sergei Nikitin writes on Facebook: Central Asia is a region that includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. In Soviet times, it was called ‘Central Asia and Kazakhstan.' Simon Cosgrove and I recently spoke with an expert on the region, Vitaly Ponomarev, head of the Central Asia programme at Memorial Human Rights Centre. At the same time, he has headed the Centre's monitoring programme ‘Countering fabrication of criminal cases of Islamic extremism in Russia' since 2005. The five countries have chosen different models of development, and the range - Vitaly Ponomarev explained to us - is large: from Turkmenistan with its totalitarian regime to Kyrgyzstan. "These are different countries, different cultures, and the more time passes since the collapse of the USSR, the more these differences become apparent. When mass repression began in Uzbekistan in the late 1990s, Russia was a relatively democratic country. Now there is this metamorphosis: Russia is becoming more and more repressive. In some aspects of criminal law, Russia has already surpassed in terms of certain restrictions some of the countries of Central Asia that we once cited as examples of serious human rights violations." Vitaly believes that Central Asian countries these days are often borrowing from Russian experience, in terms of the the toolkit for suppressing dissent, including both legislation and law enforcement practices related to so-called anti-extremism legislation.

The saber-rattling from Moscow over Ukraine has grown deafening in recent weeks. Hours before we recorded this episode, Vladimir Putin appeared on television threatening "retaliatory military-technical" measures while amassing some 175,000 troops on the border of Ukraine, asserting that Russia "has every right" to invade and start a war. Evelyn Farkas, a former Obama administration defense official, summarized the West's response in a tweet "Putin just declared war on Ukraine (pretending it's war against the US and its allies, provoked by us)." To get some meaningful insight, we turn to our man in Kyiv, Ilya Ponomarev. Ilya Ponomarev is a former member of the Russian Duma who most famously was the only member to vote against the annexation of Crimea - an act for which he was effectively expelled from the country.  In this conversation with Robert Amsterdam, Ponomarev shares his views about the potential scenarios of a second Russian invasion, why he sees the human and military costs as forbiddingly too high, but how nevertheless we are living through an attempt by Putin to cement a legacy and upend the post-Cold War world order.

This week our guest on the podcast is the well-known human rights activist, Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomarev. Lev Ponomarev is the head of the civil society project ‘For Human Rights', chair of the Defence of Prisoners' Rights Foundation and also of the Hotline organisation, and a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group. In May this year Lev Ponomarev spoke at the International Conference ‘Anxiety and Hope. The 21st Century' held in honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Andrei Sakharov. His speech, ‘We are not observers, we are participants' can be heard on the website of the Sakharov Museum. In this podcast we discuss some of the main points made by Lev Ponomarev in that speech.The questions we discuss in the podcast include: Contemporary Russia and the Soviet past - where is the country heading? - What does it mean for the country if people from the security services are in power? - Dissidents and the political opposition face severe repressive measures: who are in the main the victims of the security services? – Recent legislation – The law on ‘foreign agents' - Are ‘universal values' alien to Russia? - Putin and Patrushev – ‘We are not observers, we are participants' - What possibilities are there to work for human rights, free elections and the release of political prisoners in Russia today? – ‘We are many': how many in fact? - How to participate in elections when candidates are banned? – The idea of a Civic Congress - Russia's future and the future of human rights.This podcast is in Russian. You can also listen to the podcast on our website or on SoundCloud, Spotify and iTunes. The music, from Stravinsky's Elegy for Solo Viola, is performed for us by Karolina Herrera.Sergei Nikitin writes on Facebook: “It is not politicians who are in power, it is the siloviki. In line with their worldview, they see only one solution to a problem. The use of force. Putting people in jail. Possibly even killing them. Generally speaking, any opponent of the authorities might be killed.” Our interlocutor, Lev Ponomarev, is so disliked by the Lubyanka and the Kremlin that the authorities and his organisations have labelled him a foreign agent, and even he himself was one of the first to receive the newly invented title of ‘an individual foreign agent,' which is, without a doubt, complete nonsense. Lev Ponomarev is a kind and fair man, and even Viktor Shenderovich once said that, say, when Putin goes to jail, ‘Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomarev, the human rights defender, he will defend Putin'. Our interlocutor, recalling this remark, said: "I don't know whether I would defend him or not, but the situation is a very serious one.” Simon Cosgrove adds: A summary of some of the week's events in Russia relevant to human rights can be found on our website here.

Artem Ponomarev is a co-founder and CEO of Greenwise, one of the first Russian producers of plant-based alternatives to meat, as well as a co-founder of the Association of Alternative Food Producers (AAFPP), a non-profit organization that brings together producers and developers of alternatives to animal products, as well as a company focusing on the development of the alternative food market. FIND ARTEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

Artem Ponomarev is a co-founder and CEO of Greenwise, one of the first Russian producers of plant-based alternatives to meat, as well as a co-founder of the Association of Alternative Food Producers (AAFPP), a non-profit organization that brings together producers and developers of alternatives to animal products, as well as a company focusing on the development of the alternative food market.FIND ARTEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA LinkedIn | Facebook | InstagramVisit the podcast page for additional content https://www.uhnwidata.com/podcast

The much-awaited return of queen Marisa Monte, and the faux-Nippo-jazz of Julien Daïan open a show which centers around the outstanding new album by Ches Smith and dives deep into the diversity of today's international jazz scene. The playlist features also Evgeny Ponomarev; Le Tigre (des platanes); Colin Stetson; Ches Smith; Attilio Sepe; Florian Pellissier; Tino Tracanna; Mário Laginha, Julian Arguelles, Helge Norbakken; Paul Bedal; and Yaniv Taubenhouse. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/13449683/Mondo-Jazz (from Marisa Monte onwards) Happy listening!

Arseny Meshcheryakov, Head of the HSE Art and Design School, Associate Professor: Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design. Arseny was one of the initiators of the creation of the first professional club of designers "Portfolio", which brought together the leading designers of the early 90s. In 2000-2007 participated in a number of projects as an artist: the video installation Central Television was presented at ART MOSCOW in 2006, the video installation Souls (co-authored with A. Ponomarev) became part of the Russian pavilion exposition at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art. Since 2000, the publisher of the magazine "WAM (World Art Museum)", dedicated to world art, at the same time founded the publishing house "WAM Books". FIND ARSENY ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook | Instagram ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

Arseny Meshcheryakov, Head of the HSE Art and Design School, Associate Professor: Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design.Arseny was one of the initiators of the creation of the first professional club of designers "Portfolio", which brought together the leading designers of the early 90s.In 2000-2007 participated in a number of projects as an artist: the video installation Central Television was presented at ART MOSCOW in 2006, the video installation Souls (co-authored with A. Ponomarev) became part of the Russian pavilion exposition at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art.Since 2000, the publisher of the magazine "WAM (World Art Museum)", dedicated to world art, at the same time founded the publishing house "WAM Books".FIND ARSENY ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook | Instagram

Eine neue Folge Irrenhaus heißt dieser Tage auch: Eine Fortsetzung der Krefelder Telenovela um den KFC Uerdingen mit reichlich Drama und noch mehr Ponomarev. Doch es gab auch erfreuliche Dinge in Liga 3 - ein kurzweiliges Traditionsduell zwischen Dresden und Kaiserslautern zum Beispiel. Eine Liga höher sehen Ole und Jan-Eric, wie der HSV die Patzer der Konkurrenz nutzen kann, sprechen über die Nürnberger Schneeballschlacht und blicken auf die Leckerbissen der englischen Woche. Cheers!

Když se mučíte pohledem na liberecký bob Muži Chodova po nedělní porážce s Libercem 3:5 okupují šesté místo tabulky. Raritní věc, kterou dlouhé roky nepamatují. A na vině není jen nerovnoměrný počet odehraných utkání... Nejen o další domácí facce jsme si v rámci 17. dílu pravidelného pondělního podcastu Bari a Dejv povídali s hlavním trenérem mužů. O čem dalším byla řeč? - liberecký bob v domácí areně - příčiny další porážky, skvělý Kološ i Ponomarev - špatné vstupy do zápasů, chyba trenérů - kdo z Liberce by stál za "hřích" - bojovat o třetí místo, nebo ladit na play off? - dominantní Mladá Boleslav - startuje ženská Extraliga - gratulace pro bývalého kapitána Petra Šochmana i přátele z Vinohrad florbal floorballchodovbaridejvfatpipepodcast

Steht der erste Absteiger in der Dritten Liga schon Anfang Januar fest? Mikhail Ponomarev hat am späten Mittwochabend seinen Rückzug als Präsident des KFC Uerdingen bekanntgegeben - auch sein Geschäftsführer wird sich bis spätestens 20. Januar verabschieden. Es droht in den nächsten Tagen in Krefeld der Ausverkauf - der Grund: Investor Ponomarev will nicht länger den Geldesel spielen. Jedes Jahr fünf Millionen Euro nachzuschießen, sei nicht das, was er länger mitmachen wolle. Einen Nachfolger gibt es nicht. Was passiert jetzt beim KFC Uerdingen? Eine Variante: Die Krefelder gehen freiwillig in die Regionalliga - was kein Nachteil für 1860 sein muss. 1860 spielte vor dem Jahreswechsel gegen den ehemaligen Erstligisten 0:0. Möglicherweise wird dieses Ergebnis aus der Tabelle gestrichen. Darüber, aber auch über löwen-spezifische Themen, sprechen Oliver Griss und Tobi Fischbeck in der neuesten Ausgabe von Radis Erben. Du möchtest deinen Podcast auch kostenlos hosten und damit Geld verdienen? Dann schaue auf www.kostenlos-hosten.de und informiere dich. Dort erhältst du alle Informationen zu unseren kostenlosen Podcast-Hosting-Angeboten.

Steht der erste Absteiger in der Dritten Liga schon Anfang Januar fest? Mikhail Ponomarev hat am späten Mittwochabend seinen Rückzug als Präsident des KFC Uerdingen bekanntgegeben - auch sein Geschäftsführer wird sich bis spätestens 20. Januar verabschieden. Es droht in den nächsten Tagen in Krefeld der Ausverkauf - der Grund: Investor Ponomarev will nicht länger den Geldesel spielen. Jedes Jahr fünf Millionen Euro nachzuschießen, sei nicht das, was er länger mitmachen wolle. Einen Nachfolger gibt es nicht. Was passiert jetzt beim KFC Uerdingen? Eine Variante: Die Krefelder gehen freiwillig in die Regionalliga - was kein Nachteil für 1860 sein muss. 1860 spielte vor dem Jahreswechsel gegen den ehemaligen Erstligisten 0:0. Möglicherweise wird dieses Ergebnis aus der Tabelle gestrichen. Darüber, aber auch über löwen-spezifische Themen, sprechen Oliver Griss und Tobi Fischbeck in der neuesten Ausgabe von Radis Erben.

Steht der erste Absteiger in der Dritten Liga schon Anfang Januar fest? Mikhail Ponomarev hat am späten Mittwochabend seinen Rückzug als Präsident des KFC Uerdingen bekanntgegeben - auch sein Geschäftsführer wird sich bis spätestens 20. Januar verabschieden. Es droht in den nächsten Tagen in Krefeld der Ausverkauf - der Grund: Investor Ponomarev will nicht länger den Geldesel spielen. Jedes Jahr fünf Millionen Euro nachzuschießen, sei nicht das, was er länger mitmachen wolle. Einen Nachfolger gibt es nicht. Was passiert jetzt beim KFC Uerdingen? Eine Variante: Die Krefelder gehen freiwillig in die Regionalliga - was kein Nachteil für 1860 sein muss. 1860 spielte vor dem Jahreswechsel gegen den ehemaligen Erstligisten 0:0. Möglicherweise wird dieses Ergebnis aus der Tabelle gestrichen. Darüber, aber auch über löwen-spezifische Themen, sprechen Oliver Griss und Tobi Fischbeck in der neuesten Ausgabe von Radis Erben....

Steht der erste Absteiger in der Dritten Liga schon Anfang Januar fest? Mikhail Ponomarev hat am späten Mittwochabend seinen Rückzug als Präsident des KFC Uerdingen bekanntgegeben - auch sein Geschäftsführer wird sich bis spätestens 20. Januar verabschieden. Es droht in den nächsten Tagen in Krefeld der Ausverkauf - der Grund: Investor Ponomarev will nicht länger den Geldesel spielen. Jedes Jahr fünf Millionen Euro nachzuschießen, sei nicht das, was er länger mitmachen wolle. Einen Nachfolger gibt es nicht. Was passiert jetzt beim KFC Uerdingen? Eine Variante: Die Krefelder gehen freiwillig in die Regionalliga - was kein Nachteil für 1860 sein muss. 1860 spielte vor dem Jahreswechsel gegen den ehemaligen Erstligisten 0:0. Möglicherweise wird dieses Ergebnis aus der Tabelle gestrichen. Darüber, aber auch über löwen-spezifische Themen, sprechen Oliver Griss und Tobi Fischbeck in der neuesten Ausgabe von Radis Erben....

This week Simon Cosgrove and Sergei Nikitin talk with Lev Ponomarev (pictured left), long-time head of For Human Rights, one of Russia's leading NGOs. In this podcast, Lev Ponomarev talks about the current state of his organisation, his recent arrest and injury as he took part in a peaceful picket outside the FSB headquarters on Lubyanka Square in Moscow, the proposed changes to the Constitution, the impact of the Coronavirus in Russia, and more generally about the main tasks facing human rights defenders in Russia today, the repressive measures against civil society groups and the right of association, the distinction between civil society activists and human rights defenders, between human rights activism and politics, and between different generations of activists. The recent interview with Sotavision to which Lev refers a couple of times during the podcast can be found here. A summary of some of the week's

ANALYS. Ryska parlamentet duman godkänner att en tämligen okänd teknokrat blir ny premiärminister. Michail Misjustin har varit chef för federala skattemyndigheten i tio år. Att Putins nominering godkänns är mest en formalitet, då duman inte utgör någon som helst opposition till presidenten, skriver tidigare Moskvakorrespondenten Maria Persson Löfgren. Den förändring som president Putin vill göra när det gäller maktfördelningen, att presidentens makt minskas och att riksdagen eller duman får större befogenheter skulle kunna ses som att Ryssland får mer av ett parlamentariskt system om det inte vore för att Putin själv betonade att presidenten fortfarande kommer kunna avsätta både dumans utsedde premiärminister, regeringen och ministrarna. I duman finns visserligen olika partier till namnet, men de röstar i stort sett alltid med maktpartiet Enade Ryssland. En parlamentariker, Ilja Ponomarev röstade till exempel emot annekteringen av ukrainska Krim 2014. Alla övriga 445 röstade för. Ponomarev lever i dag i exil. Det var också då 2014, som rysk ekonomi började rasa utför. Sanktionerna mot Ryssland var en orsak, låga olje- och gaspriser en annan. Men också att den ryska ekonomin inte lyckats diversifieras, den är baserad på olja och gas. Möjligheterna för oberoende företagare att växa är begränsade. Stora företag har i hög grad blivit en del av staten. Gårdagens upplösning av regeringen är ett sätt för president Putin att försöka visa ryssarna att han vet att de är missnöjda med den usla ekonomin. Hans egen popularitet har också varit på osedvanligt låg nivå, sedan han förordat höjd pensionsålder. Men Putins beslut om ny regering och stora förändringar i grundlagen är främst en del av hans sätt att säkra sin maktposition efter 2024 när presidentperioden löper ut och han inte kan omväljas. Istället finns andra möjligheter att styra för Putin. Det så kallade statliga rådet har fått större makt nu, där är Putin redan ordförande. Om presidentens makt blir mindre och överhuset i ryska duman, det så kallade federationsrådet och statliga rådet får större makt, kan Putin säkra sin egen och sina anhängares positioner även i framtiden. De behöver inte riskera att ställas till svars för sina handlingar i framtiden. Ett annat sätt att fortsätta för Putin är som överhuvud över en federation med Belarus eller Vitryssland. Ryssland pressar på för det, samtidigt som det demonstreras emot i Belarus. Många ryska kommentatorer ser Putins tal som det socker ryssarna behövde för att svälja medicinen. Gratis mat till lågstadiebarn, höjda bidrag så kallat mammakapital till första barnet och än mer för nästa, gratis högre utbildning och annat stöd till låginkomsttagare upptog 90 procent av talet. Sen kom de tunga grundlagsförändringarna, som folket ska rösta om. Men inte i en formell folkomröstning och valberedningens ordförande Elena Pamfilova har redan sagt att hon inte tror det blir någon omröstning, utan förslagen går igenom ändå. Putin sa också att rysk lag ska stå över internationell rätt. Federationsrådet kommer också få rätt att avskeda domare, även i författningsdomstolen, vilket kritiker ser som ännu ett steg att politisera rättsväsendet. Elena Lukjanova, juridikprofessor, kallar Putins tal för en konstitutionell kupp: Federationen undermineras, regionala och lokala myndigheter får ännu mindre att säga till om. Ryssland skapar en mekanism som gör att landet kan strunta i internationella fördrag eller beslut, rysk grundlag ska stå över, säger hon. Lukjanova och andra konstaterar också att en del av förändringarna i grundlagen som Putin vill ha inte går att ändra på det sätt presidenten har sagt, utan att skriva om hela grundlagen. Den nuvarande ryska grundlagen har hållits fram av oppositionen då den garanterar en rad friheter, som yttrandefrihet och demonstrationsfrihet. Men som kringskurits av tilläggsparagrafer, med hänvisning till extremism och hot om terror. I ryska medier konstateras att ingen av de nu avsatta ministrarna i regeringen visste om på morgonen att deras öde redan var beseglat på kvällen. Maria Persson Löfgren maria.persson_lofgren@sverigesradio.se

Wir verkürzen das Warten aufs Christkind! (im Zweifel) ROTGELB, der neue Nachfolger des DEG-Puckcast, der vormals mal „Flurfunk“ hieß, sich aber nicht mehr so nennen darf. Gäste in der Folge „Jetzt kommt Goliath“: DEG-Geschäftsführer Stefan Adam und Journalist Tobi Kemberg. Das Duo über: Das München-Spiel, die Stimmung im Dome, Verletzte, Neuzugänge, Etat-Tabellen und den plötzlichen Ponomarev. Zu hören bei Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify und YouTube. Viel Spaß!

POLITICS: Djovan has on Ivan Ponomarev back on the program to discuss the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the Democratic Presidential field and much more as they deep dive into the political landscape of 2020. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/belligerentnature/support

Djovan and his guest, Ivan Ponomarev, discuss the current political atmosphere, the 2020 Democratic field and much more. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/belligerentnature/support

In der DEL läuft alles weiter nach Plan. Straubing ist ein Top-Team, der KEV vorne mit dabei, während sich die DEG und Ponomarev weiter um den Hambacher Forst streiten - mit Kohle kennen sich ja beide aus. Außerdem streiten Ullrich und Schwickerath über die Merch-Wüste bei der NHL in Deutschland und fordern ein paar Spiele Sperre nach dem Check an Daniel Fischbuch. Und wir beantworten Eure Fragen bei Twitter. Viel Spaß beim Hören

Kurz vor dem Saisonstart schauen wir noch einmal auf die Krefeld Pinguine, bei denen mit Mikhael Ponomarev ein - sagen wir - spannender Gesellschafter eingestiegen ist. Außerdem haben wir ein paar skurrile Zahlen der Off-Season parat. Und wir versprechen Euch eine Sonderfolge vom Media-Day der DEL. Viel Spaß beim Hören.

Conversation with Ilya Ponomarev, former member of Russian State Duma, currently in exile and living in Kiev, Ukraine for voting against Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Mr. Ponomarev feels that economic sanctions against Russia will cause Russian people to rally around Putin, while personal sanctions against particular individuals, which are effective, need to be widened. When it comes to corruption, Ponomarev says that Ukraine is less corrupt than people think, and that while Russian corruption is very "orderly", corruption in Ukraine is very chaotic "as is everything here". In the end tho, corruption in Ukraine helps the democratization of the country since no one can monopolize the power according to Ponomarev. That and more, only on Rashkin Report! Recorded for broadcast on 91.7 FM WSUW in Whitewater, Wisconsin.

Last year, Russia surprised the world by seizing control of Crimea. When the Russian parliament voted on this military action, there was only one dissenting voice – Ilya Ponomarev. Now, living in the United States, barred from returning home, Ponomarev has continued his political participation in absentia.In Putin’s Russia, acting in opposition to the government can be a risky choice. In 2012, two members of a punk band called Pussy Riot were arrested for their performance in a Moscow cathedral. Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny was placed under house arrest in 2013. And in March, opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was fatally shot just outside the walls of the Kremlin. How long can this government maintain control by silencing these voices of opposition? Can military action in Eastern Ukraine and elsewhere succeed in drawing attention away from mounting economic and political challenges? With elections scheduled for next year, what is the future of Putin’s government? And what is the future of relations between Russia and the United States?Speaker Ilya Ponomarev is a member of the Russian State Duma.The conversation will be moderated by Edward W. Walker, Executive Director, Program in Eurasian and East European Studies, University of California, Berkeley.For more information about this event please visit: http://www.worldaffairs.org/events/event/1460

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