🎙Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the 46th meeting of the Council of Heads of Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation under the Russian Foreign Ministry on interregional cooperation with African countries(April 8, 2026, Moscow)
💬 Russia and Africa are bound by long-standing and close ties.
Today, the countries of the continent are striving to finally overcome the remnants of colonial dependence and to strengthen their national sovereignty, above all in the economic and financial spheres.
Those who describe the current period as Africa’s “second awakening” after the decolonisation of the 1960s are right. It was then that political independence was proclaimed, above all thanks to the decisive role of the Soviet Union, which promoted the relevant declarations at the UN.
☝️Recent years have shown that neo-colonial dependence has by no means disappeared. Economically and financially, in terms of control over trade routes and financial flows, Africa still does not enjoy full independence and continues, in economic terms, to serve as a source of raw materials.
👉The lion’s share of added value is still generated elsewhere – to a large extent, and decisively so, in the former metropolitan powers.
African partners spoke about this more than once at the two Russia-African Union summits held in Sochi in 2019 and in St Petersburg in 2023. The decisions adopted at those summits should serve as guidelines in preparing for the next summit, which we plan to hold later this year.
All this will contribute to Africa’s economic emancipation, ensure that it reaps the proper returns and benefits from its natural resources, and support the emergence of the African continent as one of the centres of the rising #MultipolarWorld.
🤝 I would like to stress in particular that we are restoring our presence on the African continent fairly rapidly, after it declined sharply during the breakup of the Soviet Union. At present, Russia has 45 embassies operating across the continent, with four more set to open in the near future.
The key upcoming event on the foreign policy calendar is the third Russia-Africa Summit. It is due to be held in Moscow – this has been agreed – in late October this year. Preparations are currently underway. We count on the active participation of Russian regions in the relevant thematic sessions of this summit.
I would once again like to underscore the special importance we attach to the interregional dimension of Russia-Africa relations. It is a solid foundation which, as it grows stronger, helps ensure the steady development of relations with our partners at the national level.
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Water can boil and freeze simultaneously at its "triple point," a specific, low-pressure state (0.01°C at 611.657 pascals) where solid, liquid, and gas phases coexist in equilibrium. Under these precise vacuum conditions, water molecules with enough energy escape as vapor (boiling), while the rapid heat loss causes remaining molecules to freeze.
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On Pioneer 11
In December 1974 Pioneer 11 skimmed within 27.000 miles of Jupiters southern polar region.
Observations in the infrared from Pioneer 10 a year earlier had already indicated that the planet was much brighter than would be the case had it merely been a planet reflecting light.
D.A. Allen noted that Jupiter appeared so bright that it must be radiating more energy than it could absorb from the Sun.
"When the long wavelength data are also included, we find that Jupiter radiates nearly three times the energy it receives." - D.A. Allen, Infrared: The New Astronomy (1975)
This discovery should have been an earthquake in astronomy, but they kept being stubborn.
With the right electrical input, Jupiter (the Sky Father) could light up in former glory.
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🫧"Mehrli maktab" da fizika fanini o'qitish, avvalambor, o'quvchilarni zamonaviy fizika yutuqlari bilan tanishtirishni, hamda o'quvchilar ongida tabiiy -ilmiy dunyoqarashni shakllantirishni taqozo qiladi.
🌊Fizika tabiatdagi hodisa va voqealarni hamda ularning qonuniyatlarini o'rganuvchi fandir.
"Mehrli maktab " da fizika fanini o'qitishda yangi shakl va uslublarini faol joriy etish ham maqsadga muvofiqdir.
🌈Shu maqsadda o'quv jarayonida zamonaviy AKTdan foydalanish samarali natija bermoqda. O'quv mashg'ulotlar davomida "Birligini top!", "Xotira mashqi", "Olimlar gulshani", "Kamalak ranglari", "Formula daraxti", "Kashfiyotlar shahri" metodlaridan foydalanib darslar tashkil etiladi.
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Thor still thunderous. (Current NASA footage.)
Any more proof needed that the nature of the universe is electrical?
Our ancient gods are still out there.
It's crucial to understand mythology to accept this fact.
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https://youtu.be/iJfw6lDlTuA?list=PL701CD168D02FF56F
关于理论物理学的入门级视频,The Theoretical Minimum 系列(理论物理的最低理解要求)。由 Leonard Susskind 授课,理论物理学家,弦理论(String theory)早期几个先驱之一,曾是一名水管工。
对于拓宽知识和丰富体验,纪录片和教学视频都很不错。这个视频系列对理论物理学的入门吸收和拓展也刚好。之前 HN 网站还看到推荐的一个理论物理的博客学习 How to become a GOOD Theoretical Physicist ,也可以关注。迷人的“闻道”之旅。#physics
On the mysterious handbags of the ancients
Although I do not agree with the Thunderbolts people in every detail, they have great ideas and explanations for a lot of things.
They recently released a video, explaining what the mysterious "Handbag of the Gods" might actually be. This handbag can be found all around the globe in ancient reliefs with no connecting culture.
In short: it is a representation of an extreme electrical discharge event, seen as titanic storm.
Watch the video! It also explains to some degree, why we see severe weather conditions and earthquakes.
#physics#mythology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8C2OdSbw84
On friar Georges Lemaitre
Friar Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian priest and astrophysicist, published a paper in 1927 in the Annals of the Scientific Society of Brussel that first presented the idea of an expanding cosmos. In 1931, Lemaitre proposed what later became known as the 🔗Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
The Catholic Church honoured Lemaitre's work: he was elected to the Pontificial Academy of Sciences (sic!) in 1936 and named prelate in 1960.
By contrast, in 1948, astronomers in the atheist Soviet Union were urged to condemn the Big Bang as a reactionary theory helping clericalism, a hostility shared by many scientists and philosophers until the 1960s.
Besides showing the compatibility of faith and science, the case of Lemaitre illustrates the way in which minds and cultures shaped by the belief that (the Abrahamic) God is a Trinity of reason and love have proved fruitful in perceiving order in the universe.
Moreover, it is arguable that belief in (the Abrahamic) God who is beyond creation has freed us to theorise about the causation and change of the cosmos as a whole, rather than simply accepting the totality of material reality as an eternal, unchanging given.
#physics#history
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On the celestial mechanics and the past of the Solar system
A follower of this channel pointed out a video I want to share with you. It contains a brief summary of how the mechanics of the Solar system work and explain on point what this channel tells you about mythology.
Please watch and share, this video solves everything you need to know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RtGal_-KXU
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Mulugeta Bekele: the jailed and tortured scientist who kept #Ethiopian#physics alive
Mulugeta Bekele paid a heavy price for remaining in #Ethiopia in the 1970s and 1980s. While many other academics had fled their homeland to avoid being targeted by its military rulers, Mulugeta did not.
He stayed to teach #physics, almost single-handedly keeping it alive in the country. But Mulugeta was arrested and brutally tortured by members of the #Derg, Ethiopia’s ruling military junta. “I still have scars,” he says when we meet at his tiny, second-floor office at Addis Ababa University (AAU) in January 2026.
Gentle and softly spoken, Mulugeta, 79, is formally retired but still active as a research physicist. In 2012 his efforts led to him being awarded the Sakharov prize by the American Physical Society (APS) “for his tireless efforts in defence of human rights and freedom of expression and education....
https://physicsworld.com/a/mulugeta-bekele-the-jailed-and-tortured-scientist-who-kept-ethiopian-physics-alive/