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in PoliticsWhat’s Roskomnadzor?
Answer: Roskomnadzor is Russia’s communications and media regulator who blocked Instagram and Facebook in the country, on March 21, 2022, for “extremist activity.” Prosecutors haven’t requested to ban WhatsApp’s Meta-owned messaging service, widely popular in Russia. A court’s ruling prohibits Meta from opening offices and doing business in Russia._x000D_
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in PoliticsWhat’s the Dollar value of 30,000 Roubles?
Answer: As of mid-March 2022, $1 is worth 99 Russian Roubles, making 30,000 Roubles worth exactly $280 (about £215). That’s the fine a Russian court punished Marina Ovsyannikova with for violating local protest laws. Ovsyannikova broke onto a live March 14, 2022, news broadcast on Russia’s state TV Channel One in a demonstration against Russia’s…
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in PoliticsAccording to President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address, who are the “corrupt leaders who have bilked billions of dollars off this violent regime”?
Answer: On his first state of the union address, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. was launching a task force to go after Russian oligarchs in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine. He called the oligarchs “corrupt leaders who have bilked billions of dollars off this violent regime.” “We are coming for your ill-begotten…
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in PoliticsWhen British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace says Putin has gone “full tonto” over Ukraine, what does he mean?
Answer: When someone goes “full tonto” in English slang, he’s acting like a lunatic. The term, a former name of various subgroups of the Apache people, literally means “foolish” in Spanish. UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said on Feb. 23, 2022, that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had gone “full tonto” over Ukraine by invading it.…
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in PoliticsWhat’s Colombia’s Green Wave movement?
Answer: Colombia’s Green Wave movement to decriminalize abortion had a winning moment on Feb. 22, 2022, when Colombia’s top Constitutional Court ruled that abortion is no longer a crime under Colombian law. The court’s decision decriminalizes abortions in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion in Sept. 2021, and Argentina’s Congress…
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in PoliticsWhy is former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández wanted by the US?
Answer: Honduran authorities detained former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández on Feb. 15, 2022, to potentially face extradition and drug charges in the United States. Hernández, who led the country for eight years and stepped down less than a month ago, is wanted for taking part in a “violent drug-trafficking conspiracy” that since 2004 has…
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in PoliticsWhere was the Unification Church established?
Answer: The Unification Church was founded in South Korea in 1954 and came to Japan a decade later. Since the 1980s, the church has faced accusations of problematic recruiting and donations, often leading to financial strains on the followers’ families. On Aug. 31. 2022, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said his ruling party would cut…
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in PoliticsDonald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, where the ex-president kept top-secret US intelligence documents, is only accessable to who?
Answer: Mar-a-Lago is a private club accessible not only to Trump, his staff, and his family but also paying members and their guests, attendees at various functions, weddings, political fundraisers, and charity galas
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in PoliticsIn remarks delivered as the UK marked the 70th anniversary of her rule, Queen Elizabeth II expressed a “sincere wish” that when Prince Charles takes the reign, his wife, Camilla, should be known as what?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth II expressed a “sincere wish” on Feb. 6, 2022, that when the time comes for her son to succeed, Prince Charles’ wife, Camilla, should be known as Queen Consort.
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in PoliticsWhat is the “Freedom Convoy”?
Answer: The “Freedom Convoy” began as a movement against a Canadian vaccine requirement for cross-border truckers. Protesters have paralyzed downtown Ottawa since late Jan. 2022, with some participants waving US Confederate or Nazi flags and some saying they want to dissolve Canada’s government. The “Freedom Convoy” organizers say they will not leave until the vaccine…
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in PoliticsWhere is the Houthi movement based?
Answer: Yemen’s Houthis are A clan-based militia government that emerged from the city of Saada in north Yemen in the 1990s._x000D_
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in PoliticsWhat’s the Phoenix Act?
Answer: The Phoenix Act extends the statute of limitations for survivors of domestic violence. In 2019, the bill passed in California with unanimous support. Evan Rachel Wood led the legislation._x000D_
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in PoliticsWhat was Prince Andrew’s military rank before returning his military affiliations?
Answer: Serving in Britain’s Royal Navy from 1978 to 2001, Prince Andrew was promoted to commander in 1999, two years before retiring from active service. Three years later, he was made an Honorary Captain. On his 50th birthday, in 2010, he was promoted to Rear Admiral. Five years later, he was promoted to Vice-Admiral -…
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in PoliticsAccording to Russia, it’s “absolutely mandatory” that which country “never, never, ever” becomes a NATO member?
Answer: After hours of negotiations between the US Deputy Secretary of State and Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister in Geneva on Jan. 10, 2022, Russia’s lead negotiator insisted that it was “absolutely mandatory” that Ukraine “never, never, ever” becomes a NATO member. His American counterpart argued that the US “will not allow anyone to slam closed…
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in PoliticsAccording to US President Joe Biden, who’s “holding a dagger” at the throat of American democracy?
Answer: In a speech to mark the first anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, US President Joe Biden declared Donald Trump was “holding a dagger” at the throat of American democracy. Biden said that Trump “rallied the mob to attack,” then did nothing to stop the ensuing lethal violence.
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in PoliticsAccording to US President Joe Biden, who’s “holding a dagger” at the throat of American democracy?
Answer: In a speech to mark the first anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, US President Joe Biden declared Donald Trump was “holding a dagger” at the throat of American democracy. Biden said that Trump “rallied the mob to attack,” then did nothing to stop the ensuing lethal violence. Watch the speech.
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in PoliticsWhich city elected the first Cambodian American mayor in the United States?
Answer: On Jan. 4, 2022, Lowell, Massachusetts, elected Sokhary Chau mayor, making him the nation’s first Cambodian American mayor. Chau came to the U.S. as a young refugee after surviving Khmer Rouge’s brutal rule.
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in PoliticsWhich Latin American country elected the continent’s youngest head of state in 2021?
Answer: Chile elected 35 years-old Gabriel Boric as its president at the 2021 presidential election run-off vote on Dec. 19, 2021, making him the youngest head of state in the Americas and the second youngest in the world. Assuming office in March 2022, Boric is the youngest president in Chile’s history and the president elected…
