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Raccoon Of Kherson
Kherson () is the name given to one of two raccoons stolen from Kherson by Russian zookeeper during the Russian retreat from the city during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The animal became a subject of memes following the theft, referred to as the raccoon of Kherson (). A pro-Russian Telegram channel is dedicated to the animal. Theft On 11 November 2022, , a Russian zookeeper and director of the Taigan safari park, published a video of himself grabbing raccoons from the zoo in Kherson, under the title "We are in Kherson. Oleg Zubkov catches raccoons with BARE HANDS!!!". The video also shows people in Taigan uniforms loading other animals into trucks, leading media observers to assume the people were transporting the animals to Taigan. Zubkov later made the video unavailable, but reuploads by social media users are still online. The raccoon in particular came to wider attention when Russian nationalist blogger and poet bragged on Telegram about the theft that the "only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raccoon
The raccoon ( or , ''Procyon lotor''), sometimes called the common raccoon to distinguish it from other species, is a mammal native to North America. It is the largest of the procyonid family, having a body length of , and a body weight of . Its grayish coat mostly consists of dense underfur, which insulates it against cold weather. Three of the raccoon's most distinctive features are its extremely dexterous front paws, its facial mask, and its ringed tail, which are themes in the mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas relating to the animal. The raccoon is noted for its intelligence, as studies show that it is able to remember the solution to tasks for at least three years. It is usually nocturnal and omnivorous, eating about 40% invertebrates, 33% plants, and 27% vertebrates. The original habitats of the raccoon are deciduous and mixed forests, but due to their adaptability, they have extended their range to mountainous areas, coastal marshes, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pheasants
Pheasants ( ) are birds of several genera within the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes. Although they can be found all over the world in introduced (and captive) populations, the pheasant genera native range is restricted to Eurasia. The classification "pheasant" is paraphyletic, as birds referred to as pheasants are included within both the subfamilies Phasianinae and Pavoninae, and in many cases are more closely related to smaller phasianids, grouse, and turkey (formerly classified in Perdicinae, Tetraoninae, and Meleagridinae) than to other pheasants. Pheasants are characterised by strong sexual dimorphism, males being highly decorated with bright colours and adornments such as wattles. Males are usually larger than females and have longer tails. Males play no part in rearing the young. A pheasant's call or cry can be recognised due to the fact it sounds like a rusty sink or valve being turned. Pheasants eat mostly seeds, grains, roots, and berries, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel before resigning in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 to join the administration of president Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and secretary of the Security Council of Russia, before being appointed as prime minister in August 1999. After the resignation of Yeltsin, Putin became Acting President of Russia and, less than four months later, was elected outright to his first term as president. He was reelected in 2004. As he was constitut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Russia
The president of the Russian Federation ( rus, Президент Российской Федерации, Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the head of state of the Russian Federation. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government of Russia and is the commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed Forces. It is the highest office in Russia. The modern incarnation of the office emerged from the president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). In 1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the RSFSR, becoming the first non Communist Party member to be elected into Soviet politics. He played a crucial role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union which saw the transformation of the RSFSR into the Russian Federation. Following a series of scandals and doubts about his leadership, violence erupted across Moscow in the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis. As a result, a new constitution was implemented and the 1993 Russian Constitution remai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Military Operation
"Special military operation"; uk, спеціальна воєнна операція, translit=spetsial'na voyenna operatsiya (also "special operation", and abbreviated as "SMO" or "SVO", or russian: спецопера́ция, translit=spetsoperatsiya, uk, спецопера́ція) is an official term used by the Russian government and pro-Russian sources to denote the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is widely considered to be a euphemism created to minimize and obfuscate the true nature of the full-fledged war started by Russia, and to claim Russian victory in the operation no matter the results. The expression appears prominently in the public address by President of Russia Vladimir Putin titled " On conducting a special military operation", which the Russian leader released on 24 February 2022. The term "special military operation" has also been widely used in Ukrainian media in specific contexts, generally written in scare quotes, which highlight the psychological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Looting By Russian Forces During The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the media have been publishing eyewitness accounts of military operations in Ukraine about cases of looting by soldiers of the Russian army. International organizations such as Human Rights Watch, as well as Ukrainian, European and Russian independent media and NGOs document and investigate cases of looting and transportation of stolen personal items and industrial equipment to the territory of Russia and Belarus. History On the third day of the invasion of Konotop, food stores were looted, there was a video on the Internet in which Russian soldiers took out a safe from a bank in the Kherson region. In March, farmers from Kherson, Cherkasy and Kyiv regions testified that their cars and products were taken from them. From the outskirts of the captured Melitopol, 27 John Deere farming vehicles were stolen - tractors, seeders, combines - each of which costs at least 300 thousand US dollars. Since all the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Military
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (, ), commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military forces of Russia. In terms of active-duty personnel, they are the world's fifth-largest military force, with at least two million reserve personnel. Their branches consist of the Ground Forces, the Navy, and the Aerospace Forces, as well as three independent arms of service: the Strategic Rocket Forces, the Airborne Forces, and the Special Operations Forces. In 2021, Russia had the world's fifth-highest military expenditure at . The Russian Armed Forces possess the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. They operate the second-largest fleet of ballistic missile submarines, and are one of only three national militaries (alongside those of the United States and China) that operate strategic bombers. With certain exceptions, Russian law mandates one year of military service for all male citizens aged 18–27, though conscripts are generally not d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and 'Reblogging, retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile Frontend and backend, frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion Web search query, search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten List of most popular websites, most-visited websites and has been de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charter 97
Charter 97 ( be, Хартыя'97; russian: Хартия'97) is a declaration calling for democracy in Belarus and a pro- human rights news site taking its inspiration from the declaration. The document – the title of which deliberately echoes the Czechoslovak human rights declaration Charter 77 20 years earlier – was created on the anniversary of a referendum held in 1996, and which, in the words of the organization of the same name, declares: "devotion to the principles of independence, freedom and democracy, respect to the human rights, solidarity with everybody, who stands for elimination of dictatorial regime and restoration of democracy in Belarus". Belarusian journalist Pavał Šaramiet acted as the group's spokesman at the declaration's public launch. Charter 97, as a citizens' human rights organisation based on the principles outlined in this document, is a non-partisan organisation which has organised protest rallies and has provided a springboard for other democ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UAnimals
UAnimals is a Ukrainian animal welfare organization founded in 2016. The organization is actively involved in sheltering and rehabilitating animals during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. History UAnimals was established in 2016 by . The organization has advocated against the exploitation of animals in circuses in Ukraine, which led to the ban of circuses in several Ukrainian cities. It also advocates to end the use of fur, and is a member of the Fur Free Alliance and the International Anti-Fur Coalition. As a result of these activities, several Ukrainian clothing brands pledged not to use fur in their collections. Since 2017, the All-Ukrainian March for Animal Rights has been held annually at the initiative of UAnimals. In 2021, the event took place simultaneously in 30 cities, including Lviv, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Dnipro and Chernihiv Chernihiv ( uk, Черні́гів, , russian: Черни́гов, ; pl, Czernihów, ; la, Czernihovia), is a city and municip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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