✔️ The second meeting of the KSU Speaking Club for University Staff - Breaking News took p…
✔️ The second meeting of the KSU Speaking Club for University Staff - Breaking News took place this semester.
The event was attended by postgraduate students, academics and assistants to deans for international work at our university
📍During the meeting, we discussed 4 recent news items dedicated to:
1) the release on the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion of the Ukrainian TV series ‘The Carrier’ in Europe - ‘Tribute to ordinary people’: Ukrainian drama In Her Car to air across Europe’ (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/21/tribute-to-ordinary-people-ukraine-drama-in-her-car-to-air-across-europe)
2) the problem of cybersecurity of teenagers on social media in Europe and the United States - ‘Outside the US, teens’ social media experiences are more tightly controlled’ (https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/13/tech/social-media-regulation-outside-us/index.html)
3) the fall of a European satellite to Earth - ‘Uncontrolled European satellite falls to Earth after 30 years in orbit’; (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/21/uncontrolled-european-satellite-to-fall-to-earth-today-after-30-years-in-orbit)
4) and the issue of (in)objectivity of sport in modern conditions - ‘When I see Russian athletes... I see every city destroyed,’ says Ukrainian High Jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh’ (https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/08/sport/yaroslava-mahuchikh-ukraine-paris-olympics-spt-intl/index.html)
The conversation was pretty fruitful!
Thank you and see you soon!
