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Is Trump pushing his own power to the limit?
Whether he's using the military against protesters in Los Angeles or ignoring clear orders from federal judges, President Donald Trump is shaking the democratic foundations of the United States
Airplane accidents
India: More than 300 people died in the plane crash
An Air India passenger plane on a flight to London crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad. There were 230 passengers and 12 crew members on the plane. More than 300 people died in the accident
Exchange of prisoners
Russia and Ukraine exchanged a new group of sick and seriously wounded soldiers
Ukraine and Russia exchanged another group of sick and seriously wounded soldiers on Thursday (June 12), officials from both countries announced.
United States
Universities in Trump's crosshairs
According to Professor Noah Feldman, a professor of law at Harvard, the short-term goal of the new American president is to be in the center of media attention as someone who opposes "Harvard liberals", and to intimidate all those in higher education who do not agree with his policies. The longer-term goal is related to his broader attack on democratic values and institutions. The more he is able to weaken independent institutions, the more dominant his political agenda becomes
Spirit of the times: Josif Brodsky (1)
"What a biography they write with our Rije!"
The life and connections of an American citizen and a Russian poet and a Jew, born 85 years ago, an incomplete elementary school student, a metal apprentice, an assistant pathologist and geologist, a poet who was a victim of an ideological turn and political literary intrigues, he was tried twice, twice placed in an insane asylum, attempted suicide because of love, for parasitism was sentenced to five years of exile with community service, which a tractor driver on the Danilovsky collective farm did not appreciated as well as a song about it, enjoyed respect in the village of Norenska as an exile who rose up, "voluntarily" obtained a visa without the right to return and meet his parents, achieved a university career, won the Nobel Prize, was a poetic pop star, loved by women, loved cats, smoked a lot, died at 56 - and was buried for the second time in Venice, still a little far from Ezra Pound
