Event was (and still is) celebrated in USSR (Russia) since 1962 as "Day of Cosmonautics", from 2001 to 2022 as "Yuri's Night" in US (https://futurism.com/space-conference-censors-yuri-gagarin) and since 2017 as "International Day of Human Space Flight" by the UN.
Pictured: Yuri Gagarin with daughters Galya & Lena, and Ira Komarova. 1965, New Year's Eve.
This really is gold, thank you for sharing. "Not only would indiscriminate attacks on civilians be arguably immoral, she points out, they’d potentially invite other countries to do the same, or worse."
Well, Chekhov fits well between Dostoyevsky and Saltykov-Shchedrin.
Can't quite access the link, so here it is: the link
There are already good advices here - but I would like to suggest something that seems obvious, but might still be overlooked: consider several most likely questions your professor will ask, and prepare answers for them.
This is funny, because it is true. But also sad, for exact same reason.
Thank you for sharing this; have not actually finished reading just yet. Some "political" connecctions author makes do seem... Very particular. Search for "Marx", "Lenin", "Communism" in the document if you would like.
Actually after having done that myself, perhaps it does, in part, belong to TL;DR. Thankfully the author did account for that.