A four-hour system outage in September at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, was caused by a cat jumping onto a technician's keyboard. The Register writes about this. This was reported by a source who heard this story on one...
Volunteers returning from the combat zone in Donbass are treated as an annoying inconvenience, and not as heroes, writes Inosmi, citing a full translation of an article from the American The Atlantic. Russian volunteer Andrei Kamaev arrived in the war-torn eastern Ukraine at the end of September 2014...
Ten Obama administration officials and three Bush administration officials, WikiLeaks says, are linked to corruption in the distribution of money through the AbilityOne program, which is designed to pay 50 people with disabilities. Every year, the AbilityOne program was allocated from the budget ...
In the United States, on the Day of Remembrance of the Fallen on May 25, the opening ceremony of the monument to LGBT veterans will be held. The monument will be installed at the Abraham Lincoln Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois. The monument is a slab of black and pink granite with bronze emblems of the types of troops. The inscription on it ...
More than 50 Jewish veterans from New York who fought with the Soviet Red Army in World War II gathered in Times Square today to celebrate the Jewish Victory Day. The veterans were joined by local rabbis and leaders of the New York Jewish community. The celebrations were organized by the American Forum ...
Photos of portraits of fallen relatives thrown out after the Immortal Regiment mass action appeared on social networks. About half a million people took part in the action, which is called the most humane event of the Victory Day celebrations held on May 9, in Moscow alone. People came to Red Square...
This year, contrary to expectations, Victory Day in America passed without much conflict. The “Forum” tracked how the holiday was celebrated by Russian-speaking residents of America, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Americans themselves, as well as Russian-speaking Jews, who have been celebrating Victory Day twice for the second year now. May 8 in Washington...
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, war veterans from all over America gathered in the American capital. They laid wreaths at the World War II Washington Memorial - in memory of the 60 million killed in this war, including ...
The traditional Victory Parade was held in the Israeli city of Ashdod. A distinctive feature of this parade is the record number of schoolchildren and young people who took part in it. In a single formation they marched through the streets of the city together with World War II veterans, former blockades, prisoners of the ghetto ...
Veterans of the Great Patriotic War were congratulated in Nizhnevartovsk "in an original way". The elderly heroes were taken to a local strip club, where its staff congratulated the veterans on the Victory anniversary. The participants of the event were captured in a group photo against the background of balloons and a pole for a striptease. A photo posted on the Web ...