Anniversary
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The supposed threat to Russia today was underscored for the 70th
anniversary
of the end of World War II, with billboards springing up across Moscow to remind Russians of the sacrifices that victory required.
Toward a People-Centered ASEAN CommunitySEOUL – I am delighted that my first meeting with the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations comes at a historic moment: the 50th
anniversary
of ASEAN’s founding.
To this end, and in commemoration of ASEAN’s 50th anniversary, we have designated this year as “Korea-ASEAN Cultural Exchange Year,” and actively promoted various cultural and people-to-people exchanges.
Some suggest that North Korean leaders were determined to stage the launch before the first
anniversary
of Kim Jong-un’s assumption of power on December 17.
Why America Isn’t WorkingCAMBRIDGE – As the US economy limps toward the second
anniversary
of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, anemic growth has left unemployment mired near 10%, with little prospect of significant improvement anytime soon.
It is fitting that the Iran issue has come to the fore around the 15th
anniversary
of the start of the Iraq War.
In 2005, on the 10th
anniversary
of its launch, I joined political leaders from both sides of the Mediterranean in calling for a re-formulation of the partnership through the creation of a Euro-Mediterranean community.
This year marks the fifth
anniversary
of the World Health Organization’s Roadmap to eliminate NTDs, and of the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases.
This year also marks the 70th
anniversary
of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and 9, when citizens everywhere will have an opportunity to pay their respects to the hundreds of thousands of people who were killed or wounded on those tragic days.
But it should not need the upcoming hundredth
anniversary
of the second bloodiest war in history to remind our statesmen that low-level events may spin irretrievably out of control.
The grand military parade commemorating the
anniversary
of the end of the Siege of Leningrad, planned for January 29 in St. Petersburg, may inspire patriotism, but it will in no way reflect the real drama of the city’s starving inhabitants.
Perhaps the greatest display of this political schizophrenia took place last month in Red Square, where a witch’s brew of Red “Victory” flags, tri-color “Imperial” flags, Stalin portraits, and Orthodox icons marched side by side during the 60th
anniversary
celebration marking WWII’s end.
For its 50th anniversary, the Club of Rome updated the “Limits to Growth” report’s “World 3” computer model.
To mark the tenth
anniversary
of Buffett’s pledge, Bill and Melinda Gates recently reported to him on what the foundation, together with other organizations, achieved to improve global health over that decade.
The 25th Infantry Division, which in its early years earned the nickname “Tropic Lightning,” marks its 75th
anniversary
this autumn.
Soviet Lessons for Chinese PurgesCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – On August 1, China’s People’s Liberation Army celebrated its 88th
anniversary.
On the eve of the anniversary, the PLA’s former top general, Guo Boxiong, was unceremoniously booted out of the Communist Party and handed over to military prosecutors to face corruption charges, including allegations that he took large bribes from fellow PLA officers in exchange for promotions.
This year, the 400th
anniversary
of Galileo’s first use of a telescope, has been declared the International Year of Astronomy, so this seems a good time to ponder Kant’s first source of “awe and reverence.”
To mark the 25th
anniversary
of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), I, along with this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kailash Satyarthi, and the head of the United Kingdom’s Overseas Development Institute, Kevin Watkins, am calling on the world community to offer practical support to the burgeoning civil-rights struggle of young people.
In 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher’s College were on buses heading to Mexico City to join protesters on the
anniversary
of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre (in which up to 300 students were killed ten days before the opening of the Olympic Games).
On August 19, 2009, the sixth
anniversary
of the bombing that killed the United Nations representative in Baghdad, a series of spectacular attacks were carried out.
The Nobel Prize and Einstein's GhostThis December 10 th marks the one hundredth
anniversary
of when the first Nobel Prizes were awarded.
Financial Crisis and WarPRINCETON – The approach of the hundredth
anniversary
of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 has jolted politicians and commentators worried by the fragility of current global political and economic arrangements.
Indeed, the lower house of Russia's Duma passed a resolution earlier this year designating September 2 as the
anniversary
of the “real” end of World War II, effectively making it a day to commemorate the Soviet Union's victory over Japan – and thus an attempt to undermine Japan’s claim that the occupation of the islands came after WWII’s end.
Shinzo Abe: “I will invite to Hiroshima or Nagasaki on the August A-bomb
anniversary
all six-party talks leaders to kick-start serious negotiations on a Northeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, which will embrace Japan and both Koreas and be guaranteed by the US, China, and Russia.
Remembering the impact of Willy Brandt’s Kniefall at the Jewish ghetto site in Warsaw in 1970, I will commemorate the 70th
anniversary
of the end of World War II by visiting Nanjing and accepting Japanese responsibility for the terrible massacre of 1937-1938.
The Modi Government Turns OneNEW DELHI – India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will mark its first
anniversary
in office this month.
The Lunchbox and the BombEach
anniversary
of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reminds us that memory is not morally neutral.
For the Communist Party, the
anniversary
is a clear opportunity to present itself as the successor of a great and enduring anti-capitalist tradition, albeit one that now brings together Marxist-Leninist teachings and the teachings of the Russian Orthodox Church.
In that sense, the
anniversary
of the October Revolution may be viewed as a second-tier event, despite its symbolism.
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