2022.05.09 普京在俄罗斯的胜利日游行中发表讲话

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Vladimir Putin spoke at Russia’s Victory Day parade, which commemorates the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazism in the second world war. He presented the invasion of Ukraine as the ideological successor of that campaign. On Sunday Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said that around 60 people were killed after a bomb hit a school in the east of the country. Fighters inside the Azovstal steel plant in the devastated southern city of Mariupol vowed in a press conference that they would never surrender to Russia but heavily criticised the Ukrainian government for their plight.

Sri Lanka’s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned after weeks of protests calling for regime change amid the country’s worst economic crisis since independence. Police imposed a nationwide curfew after Rajapaksa loyalists stormed a protest site in Colombo, the capital, injuring more than 76 people.

G7 countries agreed to phase out or ban Russian oil during a virtual meeting with Mr Zelensky on Sunday. America had already banned imports of Russian oil, gas and coal. President Joe Biden also unveiled new sanctions against three Russian media outlets and executives at Gazprombank, the country’s third-largest lender. Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, and Jill Biden, America’s first lady, made visits to Ukraine.

Chuck Schumer, the majority leader of America’s Senate, said that lawmakers there will vote on a bill to codify abortion rights into federal law on Wednesday. The vote is a response to the draft decision, leaked on May 2nd, which appears to show that a majority of Supreme Court justices intend to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion a consitutional right. But the Senate’s filibuster means that the vote is doomed to fail.

Authorities in Shanghai and Beijing appeared to tighten covid-19 controls even more over the weekend, amid China’s worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic. There were no formal announcements but residents in parts of both cities were suddenly told to stay home. Meanwhile the country’s exports growth fell to its lowest level in almost two years, as covid once again severed supply chains.

The British government urged political parties in Northern Ireland to join a new power-sharing executive after the Irish nationalist Sinn Féin party won the most number of seats in local elections for the first time. To secure the participation of the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party, the government said it was willing to address the DUP’s unhappiness with post-Brexit trade agreements.

Polls opened in the Philippines’ presidential election, which pits Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, the son of a former dictator, against Leni Robredo, the current vice-president. Opinion polls point to a comfortable victory for Mr Marcos despite his links to the brutal dictatorship. The election commission said that there had no been no issues during voting so far.

Fact of the day: £100bn, a conservative estimate for the amount of money laundered through Britain each year. Russian loot is a major contributor. Read the full article.


Putin’s big victory parade

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Tanks, troops and missiles flooded the streets of Moscow on Monday as Russia celebrated Victory Day. The annual military parade ostensibly honours the 20m or more Soviet citizens who died during the second world war. But President Vladimir Putin has long turned this national holiday to his own ends.

This year the fanfare was particularly pointed. Speaking in Red Square, Mr Putin tied his campaign in Ukraine to the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazism in 1945, portraying both as triumphs of good over evil. “You are fighting for your motherland, for its future,” he told the assembled crowd. Mr Putin’s rhetoric was bellicose but familiar. He did not issue a formal declaration of war, as some had predicted. Nor, with fighting grinding on in the Donbas, did he issue any sort of victory declaration.

Mr Putin hopes the spectacle will swell domestic support for his “special military operation”. With victory still far off, he needs his countrymen on his side.

Germany’s leader remembers the war

Given the events in Moscow on Monday, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, suggested last week that Olaf Scholz should show solidarity by visiting Kyiv at the same time. The German chancellor has not been to the Ukrainian capital since the war started, in part because Mr Zelensky refused to welcome Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German president, over his previous warm relations with Russia. Mr Scholz did not take up the invitation, and gave a televised address to the German people on the evening of May 8th, when Germany marks the anniversary of the end of the second world war.

Mr Scholz will stay in Berlin on Monday for a meeting with the newly re-elected French president, Emmanuel Macron. (It is a long-established tradition for a new president to make his first foreign visit to Germany.) Their agenda is long: European sovereignty in defence and energy, the western Balkans, China, trouble in the Sahel and, of course, Ukraine.

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Marcos mark two

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Barring an earth-shattering surprise or an unprecedented polling error, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, the son of the Philippines’ former dictator of the same name (minus the bongs), will win by a landslide in an election on Monday.

That is a remarkable comeback for the Marcos family, who, having looted the state and imposed martial law, were run out of the country in 1986. They returned in 1991, after the death of Marcos senior, and have been worming their way back into politics ever since. Skilful propaganda has promoted the idea that the Marcos dictatorship was a “golden era” of stability and high growth.

Mr Marcos’s campaign has been feeble. He has no policy agenda. And his probable victory is deeply divisive. Many Filipinos remain wedded to the ideals of the revolution that kicked out his father. They may not accept the result. Attempts to disqualify Mr Marcos are making their way to the Supreme Court. Whatever it decides, there will be uproar.

Why the world needs to restore its land

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Delegates are gathering in Ivory Coast on Monday to discuss ways to improve the state of the world’s land. It is an urgent issue. A recent UN report found that humans have degraded as much as 40% of land globally, sapping it of water, natural vegetation and fertile soil. Most of the damage is done by farming. That puts food systems at risk as well as lowering biodiversity and the Earth’s ability to sequester carbon, hastening climate change.

Water scarcity is at the centre of the problem being mulled at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. More than 2.3bn people, or 30% of the global population, currently do not have enough. By 2050, the UN predicts that will be the case for half the people in the world. But restoration and good land management make places more resilient to drought. A programme by the Ethiopian government, planting trees and shrubs and changing where animals graze, increased food production by more than 13% in the most drought-ridden areas.



Return of the samurai

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More than 30 years ago Peter Janssen bought his first Japanese katana sword at a flea market in Berlin. Thus began a lifetime of collecting weapons and armour, with a focus on objects belonging to Japan’s warrior elite. On Sunday he opened a new museum to show off the largest collection of authentic samurai artefacts outside of Japan.

Located in the Auguststrasse art district, the Samurai Museum Berlin replaces a smaller one that closed during the pandemic. Around 1,000 objects, bought in Japan, Europe and America, have been chosen to illustrate the life, art, and traditions that shaped society in feudal Japan for around 1,000 years. Artefacts include the armour of more than 70 high-ranking samurai warriors, as well as 200 helmets, 160 swords and masks. Exhibits are embedded with digital installations including a replica of a Japanese noh theatre. Thousands more items from Mr Jassen’s extensive collection are not even on display.

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弗拉基米尔-普京在俄罗斯的胜利日游行中发表讲话，该游行是为了纪念苏联在第二次世界大战中击败纳粹主义。他提出入侵乌克兰是那场运动的意识形态继承者。周日，乌克兰总统沃洛季米尔-泽伦斯基（Volodymyr Zelensky）说，该国东部的一所学校被炸弹击中后，约有60人死亡。在被摧毁的南部城市马里乌波尔(Mariupol)的Azovstal钢铁厂内的战斗人员在一次新闻发布会上发誓，他们永远不会向俄罗斯投降，但严厉批评了乌克兰政府对他们的困境。

斯里兰卡总理马欣达-拉贾帕克萨（Mahinda Rajapaksa）在该国独立以来最严重的经济危机中举行了数周的抗议活动，要求更换政权，之后他辞职。在拉贾帕克萨的效忠者冲进首都科伦坡的一个抗议地点后，警方在全国范围内实行宵禁，造成超过76人受伤。

七国集团国家在周日与泽伦斯基先生的虚拟会议上同意逐步淘汰或禁止俄罗斯石油。美国已经禁止进口俄罗斯的石油、天然气和煤炭。乔-拜登总统还公布了对三家俄罗斯媒体和该国第三大贷款机构Gazprombank的高管的新制裁。与此同时，加拿大总理贾斯汀-特鲁多和美国第一夫人吉尔-拜登对乌克兰进行了访问。

美国参议院多数党领袖查克-舒默说，那里的立法者将于周三对一项将堕胎权编入联邦法律的法案进行投票。这次投票是对5月2日泄露的决定草案的回应，该草案似乎显示最高法院的大多数法官打算推翻罗伊诉韦德案，即1973年将堕胎作为宪法权利的裁决。但参议院的拉布意味着投票注定要失败。

上海和北京当局似乎在周末进一步收紧了covid-19的控制，这是中国自大流行病开始以来最严重的爆发。没有正式的公告，但是这两个城市部分地区的居民突然被告知留在家中。与此同时，该国的出口增长降至近两年来的最低水平，因为科威德再次切断了供应链。

在爱尔兰民族主义的新芬党首次在地方选举中赢得最多的席位后，英国政府敦促北爱尔兰的各政党加入新的权力分享行政机构。为了确保亲英的民主统一党的参与，政府表示愿意解决民主统一党对英国脱欧后贸易协定的不满意。

菲律宾总统选举开始投票，前独裁者的儿子费迪南德-邦邦-马科斯(Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos)与现任副总统莱尼-罗布雷多(Leni Robredo)对决。民意调查显示，尽管马科斯先生与残暴的独裁政权有联系，但他将轻松获胜。选举委员会说，到目前为止，投票期间没有出现任何问题。

今天的事实：1000亿英镑，这是每年通过英国进行洗钱的保守估计。俄罗斯的赃款是一个主要的贡献者。阅读全文。


普京的胜利大阅兵

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周一，俄罗斯庆祝胜利日，坦克、军队和导弹充斥着莫斯科的街道。一年一度的阅兵式表面上是为了纪念在第二次世界大战中牺牲的2000多万苏联公民。但弗拉基米尔-普京总统长期以来一直将这个国家节日用于自己的目的。

今年的庆祝活动特别有针对性。普京先生在红场讲话时，将他在乌克兰的竞选活动与1945年苏联战胜纳粹主义联系起来，将两者都描绘成正义战胜邪恶的胜利。"他对集会的人群说："你们是在为你们的祖国、为祖国的未来而战。普京先生的言辞是好战的，但却很熟悉。他没有像一些人预测的那样发布正式的战争宣言。由于顿巴斯地区的战斗仍在继续，他也没有发表任何形式的胜利宣言。

普京先生希望这一场面能扩大国内对其 "特别军事行动 "的支持。由于胜利仍然遥遥无期，他需要他的国民站在他一边。

德国领导人缅怀战争

鉴于周一在莫斯科发生的事件，乌克兰总统沃洛季米尔-泽伦斯基上周建议奥拉夫-肖尔茨同时访问基辅，以示声援。自战争开始以来，这位德国总理还没有去过乌克兰首都，部分原因是泽伦斯基先生拒绝欢迎德国总统弗兰克-瓦尔特-施泰因迈尔，因为他以前与俄罗斯的关系很好。肖尔茨先生没有接受邀请，并在5月8日晚德国纪念第二次世界大战结束周年之际向德国人民发表了电视讲话。

肖尔茨先生周一将留在柏林，与新近连任的法国总统马克龙会面。(新任总统首次外访德国是一个悠久的传统）。他们的议程很长。欧洲在国防和能源方面的主权，西巴尔干地区，中国，萨赫勒地区的麻烦，当然还有乌克兰。

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马科斯二世

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除非出现惊天动地的惊喜或前所未有的投票错误，否则菲律宾前同名独裁者的儿子费迪南德-邦邦-马科斯（Ferdinand Bongbong）将在周一的选举中以压倒性优势获胜。

这对马科斯家族来说是一次了不起的复出，他们在掠夺国家并实行戒严后，于1986年被赶出国境。1991年，在老马科斯去世后，他们又回来了，并且从那时起就一直在努力重新参与政治。巧妙的宣传使人们认为马科斯的独裁统治是一个稳定和高增长的 "黄金时代"。

马科斯先生的竞选活动一直很无力。他没有政策议程。他可能取得的胜利会造成严重的分裂。许多菲律宾人仍然忠于把他父亲赶出去的革命的理想。他们可能不会接受这个结果。试图取消马科斯先生的资格的做法正在向最高法院提出。无论法院做出什么决定，都会引起骚动。

为什么世界需要恢复其土地

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代表们周一将在象牙海岸聚会，讨论如何改善世界土地的状况。这是一个紧迫的问题。联合国最近的一份报告发现，人类已经使全球多达40%的土地退化，耗尽了水、自然植被和肥沃的土壤。大部分的破坏是由耕作造成的。这使粮食系统面临风险，并降低了生物多样性和地球固碳的能力，加速了气候变化。

水资源匮乏是《联合国防治荒漠化公约》正在酝酿的问题的核心。目前有超过23亿人，或全球人口的30%，没有足够的水。联合国预测，到2050年，世界上一半的人都将面临这种情况。但是，恢复和良好的土地管理可以使地方对干旱有更强的抵抗力。埃塞俄比亚政府的一项计划，种植树木和灌木，改变动物吃草的地方，在最干旱的地区，粮食产量增加了13%以上。



武士的回归

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30多年前，彼得-扬森在柏林的一个跳蚤市场上买了他的第一把日本武士刀。由此开始了他一生的武器和盔甲收藏，重点是属于日本武士精英的物品。周日，他开设了一个新的博物馆，展示日本以外最大的真实武士文物收藏。

柏林武士博物馆位于奥古斯特大街艺术区，取代了在大流行期间关闭的小型博物馆。大约有1000件物品是在日本、欧洲和美国购买的，它们被用来说明在大约1000年的时间里塑造了日本封建社会的生活、艺术和传统。文物包括70多个高级武士的盔甲，以及200个头盔、160把剑和面具。展品中还嵌入了数字装置，包括一个日本能乐剧院的复制品。贾森先生的大量收藏中还有数千件物品甚至没有展出。

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周一。哪些昆虫用 "摇摆舞 "来告知他人食物来源的位置？