Pontic Greek history is not that well known in Azerbaijan but Pamphylia Tanailidi (Παμφυλία Ταναϊλίδη) was an Azerbaijani actress of Pontic Greek origin.
In 1937, Tanailidi was accused by the Soviet government of being an Iranian spy.
Tanailidi was close friends with Govhar Gaziyeva (pictured), Azerbaijani actress and Tanailidi's co-trouper, who emigrated to Iran upon Azerbaijan's Sovietization in 1920 and Ahmed Trinić, an Albanian-born journalist, who was imprisoned in 1936 and committed suicide a year later.
Tanailidi's ties with Gaziyeva and Trinic was considered enough evidence for Soviet authorities to accuse her in espionage.
The actress refused to plead guilty. After a 15 minute trial, she was given the death sentence, and on 15 October 1937 she was executed by firing squad.
Thread. Apparently there's a major tension and inter-ethnic conflict among Chechens and Buryats in Russian Armed Forces.
Around 100 soldiers were reportedly drawn into the exchange of fire in the village of Kyselivka, in occupied Kherson Oblast.
According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR), cause of this conflict based on "the reluctance of the Buryats to go on the offensive and the ‘inequality’ of their circumstances compared to those of the Chechens”.
The latter never fight on the front line, always remaining in the rear as “barrier squads", Ukraine's spy agency claims.
In London there is a woman who goes into the underground every day and sits on the platform just to listen to the announcement recorded by her husband back in 1950.
Dr. Margaret McCollum after the death of her Oswald Laurence waits to hear the famous recording "Mind the gap".
Margaret met the love of her life, Oswald Lawrence, on a tour to Morocco in 1992. Sparks flew, they wed, and lived in north London until Oswald died in 2007.
Oswald was the voice behind one of Transport for London's most famous "Mind the Gap" announcements.
After he passed, Margaret would frequently sit on the platform at Embankment just to listen to her husband's voice.
To everybody else, it was just an announcement, but to her, it was the voice of the man she still loved and missed.
Thread. Every year the Pushkin House in London awards a prize for the best non-fiction book about or from the Russian-speaking world published in English.
The 2022 shortlisted titles are:
* “On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border” by Frank Billie and Caroline Humphrey
* “Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?” by Jan Matti Dollbaum, Ben Noble and Morvan Lallouet
* “Weak Strongman: The Limits of power in Putin's Russia” by Timothy Frye
* “Klimat: Russian in the Age of Climate Change” by Thane Gustafson
* “Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate” by Mary Sarotte
* “In Memory of Memory” by Maria Stepanova
* “Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow” by Deyan Sudjic
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While a lot of focus been on Ukraine, two weeks after the Biden admin confirmed it was sending hundreds of U.S. ground troops back to Somalia, but not for “combat,” U.S. forces launched an airstrike on al-Shabab militants in the country.
This is the second US airstrike on al-Shabaab this year, following one in February where a drone struck militants following an insurgent attack on Somali troops.
Meanwhile...
New Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud welcomed the change, thanking Joe Biden on social media.
Some Somali officials had been lobbying for the return of a U.S. military presence to help with the fight against al-Shabab.
It is not clear how many, if any, U.S. forces are currently operating in Somalia.