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Frederick Wiseman’s new film, “Monrovia, Indiana,” his forty-fourth feature, opens this Friday at Film Forum. It’s an event in itself—a documentary revelation of frozen lives and dead souls in the American heartland—and it’s also another piece in the grand mosaic…
Three years ago, Liu Mama was an unremarkable middle-aged farmer from the Dongbei region, in northeastern China. Then she started presenting her life on the social-media platform Kuaishou. Liu Mama’s son-in-law, who would later assume the role of her trusty…
A number of European countries have recently signaled willingness to receive Russian natural gas through the Turkish Stream pipeline. Italy, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary are seeking to boost purchases of Russian hydrocarbons. In light of this trend the future of…
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US and Japanese government officials agreed to promote global access to natural gas and strengthen energy security during their second annual Strategic Energy Partnership talks, the Department of State said Monday. “The United States and Japan committed…
The aim of Berlin’s new financial initiative is to ensure that the plant, once operational, would supply the agreed amount of liquefied natural gas to the European market over a term of twenty years. The German federal government has announced…
In the first initiative of its kind, Chinese and French scientists have launched a satellite aimed at monitoring interactions between the Earth’s atmosphere and oceanic activity to tackle climate change. Researchers from the French National Space Center (CNES) and China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) launched…
