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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens the International Space Station’s future New U.S. sanctions on Russia will also encompass Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos Managing the ISS What came to be known as the International Space Station was first conceived on NASA drawing boards in the early 1980s. As costs rose past initial estimates,NASA officials invited international partnersfrom the European Space Agency, Canada and Japan to join the project. When the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, the Russian space programfound itself in dire straits, suffering from lack of funding and an exodus of engineers and program officials....

Russia’s ramping up its censorship — and Big Tech’s barely doing a damn thing No such thing as free flow of information Russia’s tight grip It’s no secret that Russia has its internet following a controlled narrative spun by its authorities. Just before the invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressedRussian people through Telegram, because it wasn’t likely that the neighboring country’s media would air his message to its citizens. On February 24, Russia’s telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor, ordered local media to broadcastonly state-verified information....

Russia’s trying to control the internet, and Google and Apple are helping Why did the tech giants finally cave to the Russians requests? Is digital democracy a delusion? Apple and Google have both placed democratic values at the center of their sales pitch. Google used to have “don’t be evil” as itsunofficial mottoand within its code of conduct. It now proclaimsits missionis to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”....

Russia’s trying to control the internet, and Google and Apple are helping Why did the tech giants finally cave to the Russians requests? Is digital democracy a delusion? Apple and Google have both placed democratic values at the center of their sales pitch. Google used to have “don’t be evil” as itsunofficial mottoand within its code of conduct. It now proclaimsits missionis to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”....

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