#Eurasia Group

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Navalny's Widow Addresses EU Lawmakers

Yulia Navalnaya has vowed to continue her husband’s work to fight for a “free Russia,” Credit: EPA In the days following her husband Alexei Navalny’s death in a Russian prison colony on 16 February, Yulia Navalnaya has picked up his mantle as a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin.  Speaking to European lawmakers and students from across the continent in Strasbourg, Ms. Navalnaya called…

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2023: MSS Think Tank on "Effects of the Ukraine Crisis and Lessons Learned"

This overview from the PRC Ministry of State Security think tank — the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) — can provide insight into some Chinese perspectives on the Ukraine-Russia war and possibly on some of the less sensitive information passed up the line to its main customer, the PRC Foreign Affairs Leading Group. I found this article on aisixiang.com [and here…

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Global Times: ABD yüzünden dünya 'yılların Voldemort'una' giriyor

ABD merkezli küresel siyasi risk araştırma ve danışmanlık şirketi Eurasia Group tarafından yayınlanan son raporda, “Siyasi açıdan 2024, yılların Voldemort’u” ifadesi yer alıyor. Eurasia Group, Pazartesi günü yayınladığı “2024 için En Önemli Riskler” başlıklı yıllık raporunda bu görüşün gerekçesini ortaya koydu: 2024’te dünya meselelerine üç savaş hakim olacak: Rusya Ukrayna’ya karşı, İsrail…

[barnbridges]

i hate to see white people call themselves eurasian. bro you wouldnt say an armenian person is white, shut the fuck UP.

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

i always forget how annoying people on this site can be until a post blows up and i get to see it directly in my notifications 🙃

[taytayb1993]

These women are so beautiful. I love studying the Turkic history and culture, they're one of my favorites to study out of all the ethnic groups and histories that I looked up.

Turkic people

The Turkic peoples are a collection of ethno-linguistic groups of Central, Eastern, Northern and Western Asia as well as parts of Europe and North Africa.  The Turkic peoples speak related languages belonging to the Turkic language family. They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits, common ancestry and historical backgrounds.   

In time, different Turkic groups came in contact with other ethnicities, absorbing them, leaving some Turkic groups more diverse than the others. Many vastly differing ethnic groups have throughout history become part of the Turkic peoples through language shift, acculturation, intermixing, adoption and religious conversion. Despite this, many do share, to varying degrees, non-linguistic characteristics like cultural traits, ancestry from a common gene pool, and historical experiences.

The most notable modern Turkic-speaking ethnic groups include Turkish people, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Turkmens, Kyrgyz and Uyghur people.

6. Kazakhstan 8. Tuva

[romios-gr]

Στους 10 μεγαλύτερους κινδύνους του 2024 οι Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες αντιπροσωπεύουν τον μεγαλύτερο μακροοικονομικό κίνδυνο, μπροστά από τη Μέση Ανατολή και την Ουκρανία. Οι κρίσεις συσσωρεύονται και εντείνονται σε όλο τον κόσμο. Σε αυτό το δυστοπικό πλαίσιο, το 2024 υπόσχεται να είναι «ένα έτος χωρίς όνομα», ένα έτος «Voldemort» (από τον ομώνυμο ήρωα της σειράς Harry Potter) ή ένα «a... Περισσότερα εδώ: https://romios.gr/zoferes-provlepseis-apo-eurasia-group-to-2024-tha-einai-ena-etos-dichos-onoma-ena-annus-horribilis-mia-chronia-voldemort/

[devilsavocadoart]

Today I've bravely gone were no white person has ever gone before

I was making a list for something and I wanted to get at least one example for each continent and maybe one from every sub-continent if I had the time. I finished it and re-reading I noticed it was missing something, I re-read it again to try to figure out and it still no clue, so I counted: 1 for south America, 1 for north America, 1 for central America, 2 for Africa, 2 for Asia, 1 for Oceania. Yup, that's all of them, what was a thing about? Antarctica? Unless the penguin develop a culture it would be really hard to... only then I realized

I had forgotten about Europe

[mel-rhodes-place]

GERMAN POLITICS TURNS VIOLENT

Franziska Giffey, a prominent Berlin politician, was violently assaulted and suffered injuries to her head and neck. (https://apnews.com/article/germany-election-violence-eu-4d09d90a6cc380aacf62ca4a69af1a64) Latest attack on a German politician stokes concern ahead of elections German politics is getting violent. This week, Berlin’s top economic official was attacked, sustaining head and neck…

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It's a giant deer that inhabits the world of "乾坤の鷲-Kenkon no washi-" This character is particularly my favorite.

"乾坤の鷲-Kenkon no washi-" is a fictional world primarily modeled after Central Eurasia, and within it, this creature is revered as a sacred beast by the minority groups living in the cold northern regions (similar to the border between Russia and Mongolia in the real world).

Despite its gentle nature, it often goes unnoticed by jinka, who perceive humans similarly to small animals. It mainly feeds on moss, bark, and the like, but it eats a variety of things such as mushrooms, fish, and carrion.

[probablyasocialecologist]

There is a growing body of physiological, anatomical, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence to suggest that not only did women hunt in our evolutionary past, but they may well have been better suited for such an endurance-dependent activity. We are both biological anthropologists. I (co-author Cara) specialize in the physiology of humans who live in extreme conditions, using my research to reconstruct how our ancestors may have adapted to different climates. And I (co-author Sarah) study Neanderthal and early modern human health. I also excavate at their archaeological sites. It’s not uncommon for scientists like us—who attempt to include the contributions of all individuals, regardless of sex and gender, in reconstructions of our evolutionary past—to be accused of rewriting the past to fulfill a politically correct, woke agenda. The actual evidence speaks for itself, though: Gendered labor roles did not exist in the Paleolithic era, which lasted from 3.3 million years ago until 12,000 years ago. The story is written in human bodies, now and in the past.

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Our Neanderthal cousins, a group of humans who lived across Western and Central Eurasia approximately 250,000 to 40,000 years ago, formed small, highly nomadic bands. Fossil evidence shows females and males experienced the same bony traumas across their bodies—a signature of a hard life hunting deer, aurochs, and woolly mammoths. Tooth wear that results from using the front teeth as a third hand, likely in tasks like tanning hides, is equally evident across females and males. This nongendered picture should not be surprising when you imagine small-group living. Everyone needs to contribute to the tasks necessary for group survival—chiefly, producing food and shelter, and raising children. Individual mothers are not solely responsible for their children; in forager communities, the whole group contributes to child care. You might imagine this unified labor strategy then changed in early modern humans, but archaeological and anatomical evidence shows it did not. Upper Paleolithic modern humans leaving Africa and entering Europe and Asia show very few sexed differences in trauma and repetitive motion wear. One difference is more evidence of “thrower’s elbow” in males than females, though some females shared these pathologies. And this was also the time when people were innovating with hunting technologies like atlatls (spear throwers), fishing hooks and nets, and bow and arrows—alleviating some of the wear and tear hunting would take on their bodies. A recent archaeological experiment found that using atlatls decreased sex differences in the speed of spears thrown by contemporary men and women. Even in death, there are no sexed differences in how Neanderthals or modern humans buried their dead or the goods affiliated with their graves. These indicators of differential gendered social status do not arrive until agriculture, with its stratified economic system and monopolizable resources. All this evidence suggests Paleolithic women and men did not occupy differing roles or social realms.

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Paleo-Profiles: Peloroplites cedromontanus and Utahraptor ostrommaysi

Impressions of two different dinosaurs, one orntihischian and one saurischian, that lived in two separate members of eastern Utah’s Cedar Mountain Formation, which spans much of the Early Cretaceous in a period lasting from 140 to 94 million years ago; Peloroplities cedrimontanus from the uppermost 104-93 mya Mussenthuchit Memeber, and Utahraptor ostrommaysi from the much lower 139-134.6 mya Yellow Cat Member.

Peloroplities was one of the largest, bulkiest and heaviest nodosaurs of the Cenomanian-Turonian stages, a time when Eurasia and especially North America were witnessing a peak in Nodosaurid diversity. It grew up 6 meters long and 2 tonnes in weight, and was a contemporary of the smaller nodosaurs Animantarx and Cedarpelta and saurischians such as Abydosaurus, Moros and Siats.

A 5-7 meters long, 2 meters tall an kilograms in weight, Utahraptor was the largest and heaviest memeber of the dromaeosauridae, the iconic sickle-claws maniraptorans that would later include dinosaurs such as Deinonychus, Dromaeosaurus, Sauronitholestes and Velociraptor. Its heavily-robust build, large sickle claw, powerful leg muscles, and deep jaws were well-suited for ambushing and dispatching large prey animals such as the sauropod Cedarosaurus and the giant ornithopod Iguanacolossus, and as a solitary hunter it may have formed loose, mob-like groups of other Utahraptors to to tackle difficult-to-hunt prey in a similar fashion to modern crocodiles and Komodo dragons. This is demonstrated by the discovery of a 9-ton fossil block of limestone in 2001 that preserves a mob of several Utahraptors of varying ages that all died while trying to take on a single iguanodont that got stuck in a large pool of quicksand.

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The rough-stemmed bolete, scaber stalk, or birch bolete (lat. Léccinum scábrum). An edible type of mushroom with a brown cap and a beige stem with longitudinal dark scales.

This fungus grows in groups and singly in light mixed and deciduous forests of Eurasia, North and South America, in tundra and forest tundra next to dwarf birches. It appears in early summer and until the end of autumn, sometimes before frosts.🍃

Подберёзовик обыкновенный (лат. Léccinum scábrum). Съедобный вид гриба с коричневой шляпкой и бежеватой ножкой с продольными тёмными чешуйками.

Данный гриб растёт группами и по одиночке в светлых смешанных и лиственных лесах Евразии, Северной и Южной Америки, в тундре и лесотундре рядом с карликовыми берёзами. Появляется он в начале лета и до конца осени, порой до заморозков.🍃

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45,000-year-old bones unearthed in cave are oldest modern-human remains in Central Europe

Modern humans crossed the Alps into chilly Northern Europe about 45,000 years ago, meaning they may have coexisted with Neanderthals in Europe for thousands of years longer than experts previously thought, according to new research.

The discovery — of 13 bone fragments belonging to Homo sapiens who occupied a cave in Germany between about 44,000 and 47,500 years ago — catalogs the oldest known H. sapiens remains from Central and Northwest Europe, the researchers said. The finding also surprised the team because, as they found, the climate in the region was frigid at that time.

"This shows that even these earlier groups of Homo sapiens dispersing across Eurasia already had some capacity to adapt to such harsh climatic conditions," Read more.

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Ancient Armenia

Ancient Armenia, located in the south Caucasus area of Eurasia, was settled in the Neolithic era but its first recorded state proper was the kingdom of Urartu from the 9th century BCE. Incorporated into the Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE, the Orontid dynasty ruled as Persian satraps, a function they performed for their next overlords the Macedonians and Seleucid Empire into the 3rd century BCE. Under the Artaxiad and Arsacid dynasties the country flourished but was often caught between the ambitions of Parthia and Rome, and then the Sasanian and Byzantine Empires. The boundaries of the state varied considerably over the centuries but such common factors as religion and language were united by long-lasting dynastic clans, which gave Armenia its own unique identity throughout antiquity.

Hayasa-Azzi (1500-1200 BCE)

The first identifiable culture in the region is the Hayasa-Azzi, an indigenous tribal confederation which flourished on the fertile plateau of ancient Armenia around Mount Ararat and parts of modern-day eastern Turkey between c. 1500 and c. 1200 BCE. The Hayasa-Azzi are the eponym of the Hay people, the term Armenians use to describe themselves and their state, Hayastan. Over time, the Hayasa-Azzi mixed with other ethnic groups and local tribes such as the Hurrians, Arme-Shupria, and Nairi, probably motivated by the need for defence against more aggressive and powerful neighbours like the Hittites and the Assyrians. They were probably infiltrated by the Thraco-Phrygians following the collapse of the Hittite Empire c. 1200 BCE. Eventually, these various peoples and kingdoms would be fused into the region's first recognisable and recorded state, the kingdom of Urartu from the 9th century BCE.

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