While falling over themselves to support Ukraine, a space industry conference has removed the name of celebrated Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from its agenda.
Out of curiosity (and also because Gargarin is insanely popular in all the former Soviet countries, including Ukraine, as he damn well should be) I looked it up, and he's from a small village called Klushino that's 200~km west of Moscow, so nowhere near Ukraine.
Out of curiosity (and also because Gargarin is insanely popular in all the former Soviet countries, including Ukraine, as he damn well should be) I looked it up, and he's from a small village called Klushino that's 200~km west of Moscow, so nowhere near Ukraine.
Thanks. Like I said, I wasn't sure.
Edit: Actually, I said I was pretty sure. Let's just say I wasn't absolutely sure.