White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre promoted to senior adviser
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been promoted to senior adviser to the president while retaining her current duties, as reported by ABC News. Jeff Zients, the president’s chief of staff, stated, “Karine has been a trusted advisor to the President” and her advice will be vital moving forward.
Jean-Pierre will begin her new role immediately and is the first press secretary in decades to hold both titles until Biden’s administration ends. The move also shows increased influence by communications and press staff in the White House.
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Hurricane Milton LIVE cam: Traffic cameras in Tampa Bay, Florida
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USA: Biden wydał proklamację z okazji Dnia Pułaskiego
Prezydent USA Joe Biden wydał w czwartek prezydencką proklamację ogłaszającą piątek 11 października Dniem Pamięci Generała Pułaskiego. Podkreślił, że święto honoruje Amerykanów polskiego pochodzenia i ich wkład w walkę o fundamentalne wartości Ameryki.
"Dzisiaj oddajemy hołd generałowi Kazimierzowi Pułaskiemu, polskiemu imigrantowi, który służył u boku amerykańskich żołnierzy w wojnie o niepodległość i złożył najwyższą ofiarę dla naszego Narodu. I oddajemy hołd kulturze i wkładowi wszystkich polskich Amerykanów naszego kraju, którzy podążają jego śladami, stając w obronie wolności w kraju i na całym świecie" - napisał Biden w wydanym przez Biały Dom dokumencie.
Biden wspomniał o zasługach polskiego generała w walkę o wolność w Polsce i Ameryce, w tym o jego zasługach na polu bitwy i uratowaniu życia George'a Waszyngtona. Zaznaczył, że to dziedzictwo kontynuują dziś Amerykanie polskiego pochodzenia oraz Polacy, którzy pokazują to wspierając Ukrainę.
"Nikt nie wie lepiej niż Polacy, że w chwilach wielkich wstrząsów i niepewności ważne jest to, co sobą reprezentujesz, a to z kim trzymasz robi wielką różnicę. Dzisiaj świętujemy generała Kazimierza Pułaskiego, który postanowił stanąć z naszym Narodem, aby walczyć o naszą wolność. I oddajemy hołd wszystkim polskim Amerykanom, którzy nadal popychają nasz Naród do przodu i walczą o przyszłość opartą na naszych najbardziej podstawowych wartościach: godności, wolności i możliwościach" - napisał Biden.
Proklamacje ustanawiające święto upamiętniające Pułaskiego wydawane są przez prezydentów USA niemal co roku poczynając od uchwały Kongresu z 1929 r., kiedy została ona ogłoszona po raz pierwszy. W 1984 r. Kongres ogłosił z kolei październik miesiącem polskiego dziedzictwa. W minioną niedzielę w kilku miastach Ameryki, w tym Nowym Jorku i Filadelfii, przeszły coroczne parady Pułaskiego.
Kazimierz Pułaski był jednym z dowódców konfederacji barskiej w 1768, powstania szlachty przeciwko Imperium Rosyjskiemu i popieranemu przez nie królowi Stanisławowi Augustowi Poniatowskiemu. Po klęsce konfederacji przyjął zaproszenie markiza Lafayette'a do włączenia się do amerykańskiej walki o niepodległość, podczas której walczył u boku George'a Waszyngtona i zasłynął jako "ojciec amerykańskiej kawalerii". Pułaski zginął na skutek ran odniesionych podczas bitwy o Savannah w Georgii w 1779 r.
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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky says Putin’s war can be stopped in 2025 as Kyiv destroys 400 Russian drones
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says he believes Kyiv has the opportunity to end the war with Russia by next year, as long as his country receives sufficient support from its allies.
“In October, November and December we have a chance to move things toward peace and lasting stability,” he told the Ukraine-South East Europe summit in Dubrovnik.
“The situation on the battlefield creates an opportunity to make this choice for decisive action to end the war no later than in 2025.”
Zelensky also used the summit to call on southeastern European countries to invest in weapons production in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military said its forces had struck a base in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region storing hundreds of Shahed drones yesterday. “According to available information, nearly 400 strike drones were stored there,” Ukraine’s General Staff said in a statement.
“Based on objective control results, a direct hit was made on the target. Secondary explosions were observed at the site,” it said.
And the Russian military is looking to make significant advances in the Donbas region before muddy ground conditions in the autumn set in, a US-based think-tank has said.
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Putin 'threatened NUCLEAR war over Ukraine - prompting US president to warn him of 'catastrophic consequences' as Washington scrambled to avoid WW3'
Biden administration increased probability of Russia using nukes to 50 per cent
Vladimir Putin seriously considered unleashing nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war, US intelligence suggested, prompting Joe Biden to threaten 'catastrophic consequences' if he did so, a bombshell new book reveals.
Months after the invasion in 2022, the US uncovered evidence of 'highly sensitive, credible conversations inside the Kremlin' that the Russian President could use nukes to avoid major battlefield losses, according to journalist Bob Woodward.
In his new book, War, the famed Watergate reporter describes the Biden administration increased the probability of Russia using nukes up from 5 to 10 per cent up to 50 per cent.
National Security adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly stared 'with dread' at the chilling intelligence assessment, with Biden telling him to 'get on the line with the Russians. Tell them what we will do in response.'
He said to use language that was threatening but not too strong, the book says. Biden also reached out to Putin directly in a message, warning of the 'catastrophic consequences' if Russia used nuclear weapons.
Joe Biden reportedly reached out to Putin directly in a message, warning of the 'catastrophic consequences' if Russia used nuclear weapons
Vladimir Putin seriously considered unleashing nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war, US intelligence suggested
Russian Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile launch on April 20, 2022
Putin, his ministers and propagandists, have all frequently threatened the West with Russia's nuclear arsenal.
One of his cronies, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, recently urged Putin to obliterate 'damned' Britain by sinking it under the sea.
In a strong, new warning to the West late last month, the Russian dictator said any nation's conventional attack on his country that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.
The threat was aimed at discouraging the West from allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with longer-range weapons and appears to significantly lower the threshold for the possible use of Russia's nuclear arsenal.
Biden has held off on allowing Ukraine to hit military targets deeper inside Russia with US-provided missiles over fears of escalating the war, even as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleads for permission and Ukraine argues it is nothing more than sabre-rattling from Russia.
In another heated conversation laid out in Woodward's book, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confronted his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, in October 2022.
'We know you are contemplating the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine,' Austin said, according to Woodward.
'Any use of nuclear weapons on any scale against anybody would be seen by the United States and the world as a world-changing event. There is no scale of nuclear weapons that we could overlook or that the world could overlook.'
National Security advisor Jake Sullivan reportedly stared 'with dread' at the chilling intelligence assessment
As Shoigu listened, Austin pressed on, noting that the US had not given Ukraine certain weapons and had restricted the use of some of those it had provided. He warned that those constraints would be reconsidered.
He also noted that China, India, Turkey and Israel would isolate Russia if it used nuclear weapons.
'I don't take kindly to being threatened,' Shoigu responded, according to Woodward's book.
'Mr Minister,' Austin said. 'I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don't make threats.'
According to a US official, Austin's October 21, 2022, call to Shoigu was indeed to warn Russia against any use of nuclear weapons.
The Russian Ministry of Defence released the footage of the military drills on October 7
A propaganda channel recently simulated a Russian nuclear strike on London that would cause 850,000 deaths with two million injured
The official described the call as contentious, and confirmed there were intelligence reports at the time that referred to increased indications of Russia's potential use of nuclear weapons and they triggered growing concerns within the administration.
The official said leaders across the government were instructed to call their counterparts to deliver the same message.
Two days after the first call, Shoigu reportedly called Austin back and falsely claimed the Ukrainians were planning to use a 'dirty bomb,' which the US believed the Kremlin was putting out as a pretext to deploy a nuclear weapon.
'We don't believe you,' Austin said, according to Woodward. 'We don't see any indications of this, and the world will see through this… Don't do it.'
'I understand,' Shoigu is reported to have responded.
In another part of the book, Woodward describes US General Mark Milley, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asking his Russian counterpart, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, to state the conditions for a Russian use of nuclear weapons.
Gerasimov reportedly responded that one of them involved 'the right to use tactical nuclear weapons in the event of catastrophic battlefield loss.'
Milley is said to have hit back by saying 'none of those conditions are going to obtain.'
US intelligence reportedly pointed to a 50 per cent chance that Putin would use tactical nukes if Ukrainian forces surrounded 30,000 Russian troops in the southern city of Kherson.
Just months before, in the far northeast, Ukrainian troops had stunned the Russians by recapturing Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, and were pivoting to liberate Kherson, strategically located on the Dnieper River not far from the Black Sea.
Путин не планирует поздравлять будущего президента США с победой, так как это крайне недружественное государство — Песков.
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«А что, если Путин скажет: «Пока нет. Украина должна капитулировать. И никакого вступления в НАТО»?»
Так Дмитрий Медведев ответил на слова республиканца Майка Джонсона.
Тот ранее заявил, что Трамп, если станет президентом США, якобы положит конец конфликту на Украине — позвонит Путину и скажет, что «уже хватит».
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Заместитель руководителя российского ЦПВС в Сирии Олег Игнасюк сообщил, что беспилотник MQ-9 Reaper коалиции, возглавляемой США, опасно сблизился с российским самолетом Су-35. Благодаря грамотным действиям российского летчика столкновения удалось избежать.
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БПЛА MQ-9 Reaper коалиции, возглавляемой США, опасно сблизился с российским самолетом Су-35 в Сирии, сообщил заместитель руководителя российского ЦПВС в республике Олег Игнасюк.
Мы уже рассматривали этот конфликт в разделе
Украина очень переживает и выступает с дипломатическими демаршами периодически.
Это очередной.
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МИД Украины выступил с очередным заявлением, в котором осудил использование кадров разрушений в Украине для агитации в предвыборной кампании.
На это заявление ответил спикер парламента Грузии Шалва Папуашвили, передает SOVA.
Он заявил, что агитация «Грузинской мечты» приобрела такой резонанс потому, что украинские чиновники «посмотрели в глаза собственному преступлению», поскольку это они «впутывали» Грузию в сценарий, изображенный на этих баннерах.
Как говорит Папуашвили, на эти баннеры должны посмотреть все, «особенно те, кто подталкивал Грузию к сценарию, изображенному на баннерах».
«Это были самые важные наши баннеры, и каждый должен посмотреть на эти фотографии, особенно те, кто подталкивал эту страну к сценарию, который мы видим на этих баннерах. Нас вдохновляли изменить яркую реальность и безопасность, которые у нас есть сегодня, на реальность, которая есть сегодня в Украине», — заявил Папуашвили.
Он добавил, что подобные картины видели не только в Украине — грузинский народ тоже хорошо знает, что означают разрушенные школа, дорога и мост.
Он напомнил об акциях, которые в феврале и марте 2022 устраивала оппозиция. По его словам, митингующие потребовали отправить добровольцев из Грузии на войну в Украине, а за этим «стояли иностранные политики».
«Премьер-министр Украины публично призвал грузинский народ: "Идите в здание парламента и попросите свое правительство отправить добровольцев на войну". Сегодня украинская власть говорит: "Не втягивайте нашу войну в свои политические дебаты", так почему они вмешивались в свое время?» – подчеркнул Папуашвили.
Он также упомянул, как в начале украинской войны Грузию попросили присоединиться к санкциям ЕС против РФ и закрыть небо и границы. Он заявил, что таким образом Грузию «пытались ногой загнать на войну».
Kamala and the Vogue curse: Harris risks election meltdown due to bizarre pattern haunting magazine's cover stars
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After Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, covered Vogue's digital issue on October 11, people flocked to X (formerly Twitter) in fear that there was a 'Vogue curse.'
President Biden's wife Jill Biden was on the cover of Vogue in July 1, 2024, and he dropped out of the race on July 21.
Because Kamala is now the Vogue cover star, some people on social media believe it's possible she's going to experience the same 'curse.'
'Vogue cover means curse in 2024,' Connecticut-based portfolio manager Andrew Fisher tweeted, stoking fears by sharing Jill Biden's cover.
Andrew explained, 'Remember the last time Vogue featured Dr. Jill on the cover? Just days later, Joe was out. Is this what they call the Vogue curse?'
The Democratic presidential nominee, 59, posed for the October digital issue of the fashion magazine Vogue
President Biden's wife Jill Biden was on the cover of Vogue in July 1, 2024, and he dropped out of the race on July 21
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Andrew continued, 'She should be more concerned about the Vogue Curse 2024 than some debate that’s never going to happen.'
Another X user clarified, 'Wouldn't Doug Emhoff have to be on the cover for this "curse" to apply?' referencing Kamala's husband, the potential Second Gentleman of the United States.
Doug on the cover would be the equivalent, as Jill was the First Lady at the time, and Joe did not appear on the cover.
One X user responded, 'There's a Sports Illustrated curse, not a Vogue curse, but do you dude....smh.'
The Sports Illustrated cover jinx is a belief so strong it was covered by Psychology Today, as it showcases players who were featured in the magazine and then had terrible seasons afterwards.
PT explained, 'When a player or team does something exceptional enough to earn a place on the cover of Sports Illustrated or Madden NFL, there is essentially nowhere to go but down.'
Another person brought up the sports mag curse, tweeting, 'Kind of like the Sports Illustrated curse, Vogue cover, you’re gone! Dr Jill ring a bell!'
SI gained another comparison as someone said, 'Last time Vogue put a political figure on the cover it was Jill Biden. The minute it was published, Joe Biden was pushed off the ticket. Perhaps Vogue is the new Sports Illustrated "curse."` And this is going to make Dr. Jill go ballistic.'
Some didn't see the comparison as Biden stepping down was unprecedented.
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Vogue previously released two covers, one for the print issue, and one digital alternative (pictured) in 2021
In the weeks before Inauguration Day in 2021, Harris was featured on an issue of Vogue looking casual in Converse sneakers
'Why are you calling it a curse after one negative incident?' one person questioned.
The Vogue cover called the Democratic presidential nominee the 'candidate for our times' as she posed in a Gabriela Hearst suit and her infamous $800 Tiffany & Co. pearl earrings, which are part of her extensive jewelry collection.
However, some people on social media believed Kamala's photographs appeared too airbrushed and thought the cover looked like AI.
Kamala previously covered Vogue in 2021, appearing dressed down in her signature Converse sneakers along with a black suit jacket, black skinny jeans, and a white T-shirt.
Лучшим десертом к такому фильму, по скромному мнению а.п., памятная статья 8-ми летней давности об особенностях англосаксонского этикета...
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Knives out for British table manners
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Lots of American customs have invaded British culture over the past few decades, but I wouldn’t have bet on this one: apparently, British people have begun to brandish their forks in the American fashion.
In accordance with US “cut-and-switch” etiquette, diners begin with the fork in their left hand and the knife in their right, but after they’ve cut whatever it is they’re about to eat, the knife is put down and the fork is transferred to the right hand. According to a new survey, 23% of UK adults have forsaken the traditional European style – where the fork remains in the left hand – in favour of the American way. Up to a third of young Britons are said to have adopted the American-style fork-switching.
As an American who has never done it (I’m left-handed – why would I switch?), I would have sworn that while the practice might persist in the US, it would never catch on elsewhere. Why would anyone adopt something so cumbersome, pointless and perversely formal? Fork-switching is said to have its origins in 19th-century France, but it fell out of fashion there more than 150 years ago. North America was, until recently, the only place where this obscure bit of pretension clung on.
The fork is a relative latecomer to the place setting. Pronged implements had long been used as cooking utensils, but forks didn’t arrive on European tables until the 11th century, and for hundreds of years afterward were regarded by many as a decadent and vulgar extravagance. Knives and spoons were necessary tools; the fork was just a dainty substitute for one’s fingers. Apparently, Louis XIV forbade his children to eat with forks. It should perhaps come as no surprise that such an instrument would attract a bit of counterintuitive etiquette.
In fact, both styles of eating are now considered “correct” in North America, and it’s rare that you find anybody in the States arguing the case for the cut-and-switch technique. As long ago as 1928, American etiquette expert Emily Post wrote that “to zig-zag the fork from left hand to right at nearly every mouthful is a ridiculous practice of the would-be elegant that is never seen in best society”. Usually, I’m quietly pleased when American customs and practices migrate to Britain, but I’ve been running away from this fork thing my whole life.
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BREAKING: Riverside County Sheriff says his deputies probably prevented Trump assassination attempt, suspect calls accusation 'complete bullsh*t'
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Sherrif Chad Bianco of Riverside County, California held a press conference on Sunday evening to address the arrest of Vem Miller inside the perimeter surrounding Donald Trump's Coachella rally on Saturday. Miller was arrested and found to have questionable credentials along with two guns and ammunition for guns in his car.
Bianco had previously said that he believed his deputies had thwarted a third assassination attempt on Trump. Sources close to the campaign told Fox News that there had been no attempt on Trump's life. Miller spoke with Southern California News Group on Sunday and said he was "shocked" to have been arrested and accused of wanting to harm the former president.
"These accusations are complete bullsh*t," Miller said. "I’m an artist, I’m the last person that would cause any violence and harm to anybody."
"There has been a lot of media stir," Bianco began, "beginning last night with social media, and futher today about the arrest."
"So to begin with," he told reporters, "yesterday afternoon, before President Trump arrived to the rally, we made contact with an individual on the inner perimeter of our operation at the rally. As you can imagine, this as a very large event in regard to the previous attempts on the former president's life. This was not something we were taking lightly." Bianco said he and his deputies had detailed plans in place to protect Trump and the supporters who were in attendance.
"If you're asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that prevented the 3rd assassination attempt" he said.
The Secret Service later released a statement saying after their assessement, "the incident did not impact protective operations and former President Trump was not in any danger. While no federal arrest has been made at this time, the investigation is ongoing." They expressed their thanks to local law enforcement officials.
To access the perimeter a person needed to have "documentation that said you were going to this rally in the form of an email with VIP credentials or press credentials." No other vehicles, he said, were allowed in.
As to the man who was arrested, Bianco said that as "he approached the outside of the perimeter," he "gave all indications that he belonged there, that he was, that he had, that he was a participant that was allowed to get into VIP and to—and a press corps." However, as he entered the inner perimeter, Bianco said, where a more thorugh investigation would take place by deputies before individuals were allowed into the event itself, "there were many irregularities that popped up."
Bianco said that the "interior of the vehicle was in quite disarray. The vehicle had an obviously fake license plate, and that prompted further investigation from our deputy." As part of that investigation, multiple drivers licences were found with different names, it was discovered that the car was not registered, two guns and ammunition for those guns were found, and that the man, named as Vem Miller, was likley part of the sovereign citizens group.
Miller was taken into custody, booked and arrested on fire arms charges, and while he was released, he is expected to appear in court. Bianco said that his office is working with the FBI and Secret Service "to ensure that this person is followed up on and and all of the information that they can gather." If there are additional charges, they would be federal.
The first reporter to ask a question said that he has spoken to Miller and that he'd said that "accusations" that was he was attempting to assassinate Trump were "complete bullsh*t." Miller, the reporter said, relayed to him that he had "a special access pass" and that he'd told deputies he had firearms in his trunk "as a courtesy."
Bianco said he was "not really concerned with the statement that he gave the media after he was released from custody."
A second reporter asked what about the incident made Bianco say that he believed it had been a third assassination attempt and Bianco said "I don't remember saying that, but it certainly would be something I did say."
When asked about the suspect's background and political party, which appears to be Republican, Bianco said "I couldn't care less what political party he belongs to. I honestly, I think that's the stupidest thing in the world, that we have to label something, and we're labeling this as politics. He was a lunatic." Miller was released on $5,000 bond.
"He was, in, from my perspective, in law enforcement, he was it's that group, if, in fact, it turns out that he is part of of the sovereign sovereign citizens group," Bianco said.
"They are certainly considered a far right group. I wouldn't from, in my own personal belief, I wouldn't say it's a militant group. It's just a group that doesn't believe in government and government control. They don't believe that the government and laws apply to them. So I think it's, it's fringe, one way or the other. I couldn't care less. It's, it's, it's people trying to do harm, and thank God we prevented it."
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Man arrested with illegally possessed weapons near Trump rally Saturday
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A man illegally possessing a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine was arrested Saturday near former President Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella, California, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday.
Vem Miller, 49, of Las Vegas, was arrested just before 5 p.m. PT after deputies assigned to the rally found him in a black SUV at a checkpoint near the rally, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
“Miller was taken into custody without incident and later booked at the John J. Benoit Detention Center for possession of a loaded firearm and possession of a high-capacity magazine,” the statement said.
The sheriff’s office added that the “incident did not impact the safety of former President Trump or attendees of the event.”
Miller was released on a $5,000 bail, according to the Riverside County Inmate Information System.
The sheriff’s department is asking anyone with information to contact the Palm Desert Sheriff’s Station.
CNN has reached out to the Trump campaign and the US Secret Service for comment.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office is expected to hold a news conference Sunday at 6 p.m. ET.
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This is a drawing of the first White House designed by architect James Hoban, who won the competition to design the president’s new house in 1792. (AP Photo)
In 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
Jokes and Offbeat Auctions for the Troops: Standup Comedy Sweeps Ukraine
Even as the conflict with Russia grinds on, a new generation of comics in Ukraine is trying to make people laugh — and raise money for the war effort.
Anton Tymoshenko performing at a stand-up comedy show in July in Kyiv, Ukraine.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
Onstage in a Kyiv theater, Anton Tymoshenko tells a joke about Ukrainians who are never satisfied with the weapons their country gets from the West — if they got nuclear weapons, he says, they would probably grumble about the quality of the uranium. He mocks the Odesa mayor (for being allegedly pro-Russian) and the Kyiv one (for being allegedly pro-himself).
Then Mr. Tymoshenko turns his attention to President Volodymyr Zelensky, once a comedian, and his speeches aimed at rallying the Ukrainian people that he has broadcast daily since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
“Who still watches Zelensky’s videos? Please applaud,” Mr. Tymoshenko asks his audience. A few clap, with little enthusiasm. “Every day, there’s a new one. And you don’t watch them. Neither do I.” He adds, “The first season was great, but now …” He pauses for comic effect. “Maybe he should just rerun old episodes.”
Being a comedian during a war might seem a bit like being a clown at a funeral. But the crowd laughs.
In the third year of the full-scale war with Russia, stand-up comedy, relatively new to Ukraine, is having a moment. Mr. Tymoshenko, 30, is one of a new crop of stand-up comics trying to make people laugh even as Russian missiles slam into Ukrainian cities.
The comedians have performed in the war-ravaged city of Kharkiv; for troops near the front lines in the east; and in the capital, Kyiv, in venues including a bomb shelter and an outdoor stage of a high-rise shopping mall.
Audience members at a stand-up comedy show in July at a shopping mall in Kyiv.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
In a somewhat absurdist twist, stand-up comics are also now seen as important to the war effort by raising millions of dollars for the army through ticket sales and auctions at the end of their shows — some of which they perform in Europe or North America — that they turn into part of their comedy acts.
They have auctioned off things as improbable as an empty Ukrainian grocery bag, a bit of stage lint, stolen maple syrup from Canada, a packaged Russian military meal, key chains made of downed Russian missiles, and a jar of honey made by the bees of a former Ukrainian president. (The honey alone went for more than $1,100.)
Mr. Tymoshenko said in an interview that he had raised almost $300,000 during a recent tour in the United States and Canada. Another Ukrainian comedian, Vasyl Baidak, said he had raised $277,000 during a three-week European tour. Those numbers could not be independently verified.
Like other stand-up comics in Ukraine, they say they donate their proceeds to Ukrainian brigades to buy things like drones, drone-defense systems and body armor.
“Everything can be sold, including a sock,” said Serhiy Chyrkov, another stand-up comic.
Dark humor is sometimes the best way to get through difficult times, build a sense of community and improve morale, as any military veteran knows.
“It’s about what we live in, this crisis,” said Zoya Melnyk, sitting in the audience before Mr. Tymoshenko’s recent show. “It’s about funny things we don’t notice at first.”
A moment of silence at the comedy show.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
Stand-up comedy is a recent Ukrainian import. In the Soviet Union, comedians faced censorship and performed vetted material, or risked reprisal.
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After the fall of the Soviet Union and Ukraine’s independence in 1991, comedy remained pretty stale, mostly censored, driven by Moscow’s tastes and performed largely in Russian.
Comedy troupes, including one led by Mr. Zelensky, eventually gained popularity in Russia, mainly performing skits, and not stand-up comedy. Mr. Zelensky eventually became a comedy star in Ukraine, culminating in his role in the TV show “Servant of the People” as a history teacher who accidentally becomes the Ukrainian president. And then, in a dramatic real-life turn that few saw coming, he parlayed that show into an actual successful run for president.
The first official Ukrainian stand-up show opened in Kyiv in about 2012, said Mr. Baidak, who has studied the history of comedy in Ukraine. A year later, there was a stand-up show in Kharkiv, then one in Lviv.
Stand-up comics said in interviews they were inspired by watching performances on YouTube by comedians like the American Doug Stanhope — whom they really, really want to perform in Ukraine. (Mr. Stanhope, who was himself unsure why he’d taken off in Ukraine, specifically, said he was open to visiting Kyiv this fall. “In my life, everything sounds boring, except for this,” he said in an interview.)
The war changed things in Ukraine. Many comics wrestle with the sometimes uncomfortable fact that they are not fighting on the front lines, although they are eligible for the military draft. Some enlisted — including Mr. Chyrkov, who joined the army in September.
Stand-up comedy itself has become more serious, more intentional. For a profession founded on the idea of mocking institutions, many Ukrainian comedians seem downright patriotic, saying they tell jokes to lift Ukrainians’ spirits.
Mr. Baidak, an absurdist comedian, once told jokes about horses and flies. One involved a tornado and a bathroom. Now, he is more grounded in reality.
“I must do jokes about the war because I feel a responsibility,” he said. At the beginning of the invasion, he would not joke about the front lines or explosions. But after going to the front lines, performing, talking to soldiers and hearing explosions for himself, he said, “I just want to tell you what I feel, how it is to be there.”
The comedian Anastasiia Zukhvala in July in Kyiv.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
While most comedians are men, women are also taking the stage.
On a recent Sunday, Anastasiia Zukhvala performed a set outside the high-rise Gulliver shopping mall, riffing on normal non-war concerns — hating summer heat, being a terrible driver. And, like many of her fellow comedians, she took the opportunity to poke fun at Russians.
In an interview, she said she would not joke about the tragedies in Ukraine. She said that everyone knew the crisis the country faced, adding that she and her fellow comics had “resting Shevchenko face” — a reference to the Ukrainian poet whose droopy mustache and dour expression are featured on busts that are ubiquitous in Ukraine.
Despite the blossoming of stand-up comedy, the former Soviet republic still wrestles with the ideals of democracy and free speech.
At the Atlas Weekend music and arts festival in July in Kyiv, Mr. Chyrkov’s set consisted of reading Mr. Zelensky’s 2019 election promises verbatim, about ending poverty and nepotism and the fighting with Russia in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. As he spoke, a security guard yanked him off the stage. Festival officials later called the episode an “unfortunate misunderstanding” and blamed an employee for having “a false interpretation of what was happening.”
In an interview, Mr. Chyrkov said he had no interest in talking about the Atlas festival and said he believed it was a misunderstanding.
Mr. Tymoshenko, however, had some choice words for Atlas at his recent show in Kyiv, saying the festival should “go to hell” for not respecting stand-up. “It’s never happened before, no matter who was onstage,” Mr. Tymoshenko told the audience.
At the end of his set, he switched into auctioneer mode, selling off things like a drink with him in his dressing room after the show (raising almost $725); remnants of a Russian infantry fighting vehicle destroyed in the Kyiv suburb of Hostomel in March 2022 (about $1,200); and, somewhat inexplicably, a T-shirt signed by both Andriy Shevchenko, a former Ukrainian soccer star, and the American actor Liev Schreiber, who is of Ukrainian descent (about $1,325).
Mr. Tymoshenko ended by auctioning off his microphone. “You can remove the mic from me,” he said. “Raise your hand if you are interested.”
A man named Kostya beat out his competitors with an offer of almost $850. It was a lucrative mic drop.
A comedy show on an outdoor terrace of a shopping mall.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times.
Простите им их убожество.
В России, в СССР, в том числе stand-up-функцию, выполняли профессиональные деятели искусств, в свободное от основной профессии время, перед отраслевой аудиторией, как любители, в качестве пародистов и импровизаторов.
Цитата:
Ираклий Андронников. «Первый раз на эстраде». 1971 г.
Цитата:
И.И.Соллертинский. Переводчик вечности.
Цитата:
Ираклий Андроников - "Вариации на тему: С.Я.Маршак"
Dawn Sturgess: UK inquiry into Novichok death to start
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LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - A public inquiry into the death of a woman who Britain says was unwittingly killed by the Novichok nerve agent following the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal six years ago will begin on Monday.
Dawn Sturgess died from exposure to Novichok in July 2018 after her partner found a counterfeit perfume bottle which police believe had been used by Russian intelligence operatives to smuggle the poison into the country.
Skripal, who sold Russian secrets to Britain, and his daughter Yulia had been found slumped unconscious on a public bench in the southern English city of Salisbury four months earlier.
Both they, and a police officer who went to Skripal's house, were left critically ill from the effects of the military-grade nerve agent, but recovered.
On Monday, an inquiry into Sturgess's death finally opens, with hearings held initially in Salisbury. Its aim is to provide her family with answers to how her death came about, and it will hear some confidential evidence in secret from the government and the security services.
While British police have charged in absentia three Russians, who they say are GRU military intelligence officers, over the attack on Skripal and his daughter, no formal case has been brought against them over the death of Sturgess, 44.
The three men and Moscow have denied any involvement.
Last month, the inquiry chair, former Supreme Court judge Anthony Hughes, ruled that the Skripals would not give evidence themselves, saying there was an "overwhelming risk" they still faced physical attack if they could be identified and their current whereabouts revealed.
Two of the Russians accused by Britain of carrying out the poisoning later appeared on Russian TV to deny involvement, saying they had been innocent tourists visiting the city's cathedral.
The incident led to the biggest East-West diplomatic expulsions since the Cold War, and relations between London and Moscow have since got even worse following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian embassy in London said last week the British foreign ministry's "references to the alleged use of the mythical Novichok are quite preposterous".
"Following the Salisbury provocation in 2018 it was the UK side that refused to follow established procedures and cooperate with Russia to uncover the truth," it said on X.
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