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Ioannis Agorastos "<mask><mask>, DSO, DFC & Bar (1919–1974) was a Southern Rhodesian flying ace in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War, noted especially for his part in the defence of Malta during 1942. The son of Greek immigrants, he was accepted by recruiters only after Greece joined the Allies in late 1940. Following spells with No. 65 Squadron and No. 266 (Rhodesia) Squadron, he joined No. 249 (Gold Coast) Squadron in Malta in March 1942. Flying Spitfire Mk Vs, <mask> was part of the multinational group of Allied pilots that successfully defended the strategically important island against numerically superior Axis forces over the next few months.Flying with No. 185 Squadron from early June, he was withdrawn to England in early July 1942. After a spell as an instructor in the UK, <mask> returned to action in September 1943 as commander of No. 64 Squadron, flying Spitfire Mk VCs over northern France. He took command of No. 126 (Persian Gulf) Squadron in June 1944, and led many attacks on German positions during the invasion of France and the campaign that followed; he was shot down over Arnhem during Operation Market Garden, but only lightly wounded. After converting to Mustang IIIs, he commanded a wing based at RAF Bentwaters that supported bombing missions.He finished the war with the rank of squadron leader and remained with the RAF afterwards, operating Gloster Meteors at the head of No. 266 (Rhodesia) Squadron. <mask> was the top-scoring Southern Rhodesian ace of the war, and the highest-scoring ace of Greek origin, with 16 confirmed aerial victories, including 11 over Malta. Awarded the Distinguished Service Order and other medals, he was also one of Rhodesia's most decorated veterans. The Southern Rhodesian capital, Salisbury, honoured his wartime contributions by naming a street in its northern Alexandra Park neighbourhood after him. On his return home after retiring from the RAF with the rank of wing commander in 1948, he set up home at 1 John Plagis Avenue, opened a bottle store bearing his name, and was a director of several companies, including Central African Airways in the 1960s. He contested the Salisbury City constituency in the 1962 general election, standing for the Rhodesian Front, but failed to win.He died in 1974. Early life
<mask> was born on 10 March 1919 in Gadzema, a mining village near Hartley, about  south-west of the Southern Rhodesian capital Salisbury. His parents, Agorastos and <mask>, were Greek immigrants from the island of Lemnos; he had five siblings. Christened with the Greek name Ioannis Agorastos, Plagis used the English form of Ioannis, <mask>, from childhood, and attended Prince Edward School in Salisbury. Having been interested in aviation since he was a boy, Plagis volunteered for the Southern Rhodesian Air Force (SRAF) soon after the outbreak of war in September 1939. He was turned down because he was the son of foreign nationals and therefore not a citizen, despite having lived in Rhodesia all his life. After Italy invaded Greece in late October 1940, bringing the Greeks into the war on the Allied side, Plagis applied again—this time to join the Royal Air Force, which had absorbed the SRAF in April 1940—and was accepted.Training first in Southern Rhodesia, then England, <mask> passed out with the rank of flight sergeant in June 1941 with above-average ratings in all of his flying assessments. Though he was officially in the RAF as a Greek (he became a Rhodesian citizen only after the war), <mask> considered himself a Rhodesian flyer and wore shoulder flashes on his uniform denoting him as such. He named each aircraft he piloted during the war after his sister Kay, and painted that name on the side of each cockpit. After briefly flying Spitfires with No. 65 Squadron RAF, <mask> joined No. 266 (Rhodesia) Squadron, an almost all-Rhodesian Spitfire unit, on 19 July 1941. He served in the UK for about half a year, during which he was commissioned as a pilot officer, before being posted to the Mediterranean theatre in January 1942.Air war in Europe and the Mediterranean

First tour of operations

Plagis's first major operation was Operation Spotter, the first of many British endeavours to reinforce the besieged island of Malta in the face of German and Italian assaults during the Battle of the Mediterranean. Malta was considered to be of vital strategic importance, and its defence was looking increasingly precarious in March 1942. Spotter was a plan to strengthen its British garrison with 16 new Spitfire Mk Vs, which would be carried part of the way from Gibraltar on the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, then flown to Malta; the pilots would then become part of the severely depleted No. 249 (Gold Coast) Squadron. The team of pilots comprised eight British airmen, four Australians, two New Zealanders and two Southern Rhodesians—Plagis and his close friend Pilot Officer Doug Leggo. The operation, carried out on 7 March 1942, was largely successful and 15 of the 16 Spitfires reached Malta. Plagis and Leggo arrived to find a third Rhodesian, Flight Officer George "Buck" Buchanan, already attached to the squadron.A further delivery of 16 Spitfires, Operation Picket I, was attempted on 21 March, but this was less successful; only nine of the planes arrived. Thirteen Spitfire reinforcement operations were ultimately launched between March and October 1942, playing a key role in the siege. The Luftwaffe and the Italian Regia Aeronautica meanwhile attempted to bomb Malta into submission, turning the airfields into "a wilderness of craters, the docks ... a shambles, Valletta a mass of broken limestone ..."

The Luftwaffe launched a major attack against key Maltese airfields at dawn on 20 March. Leggo, who had not slept for over 24 hours, returned to the airfield in the early hours having spent the night with a girlfriend. As the German planes approached he was ordered to prepare to fly. <mask> attempted to stop his friend from going, but Leggo insisted on flying, and took off at 08:05 as part of a group of four Spitfires and 12 Hurricanes aiming to intercept a squadron of Messerschmitt Bf 109s. He was soon seen to be flying poorly.A German pilot noticed this and attacked Leggo from close range, seriously damaging his aircraft and forcing him to bail out. Another Bf 109 then swooped and either fired at Leggo or collapsed his parachute with its slipstream, causing him to fall to his death. When Plagis learned what had happened, he was inconsolable, holding himself responsible. In his journal, he vowed to "shoot down ten for Doug—I will too, if it takes me a lifetime". <mask> shot down his first enemy aircraft on 25 March 1942, and on 1 April achieved four more aerial victories in a single afternoon, thereby becoming the siege of Malta's first Spitfire ace. His downing of four enemies in a few hours won him much praise from superiors and reporters, and contributed to his growing reputation as an aggressive but skilful combat pilot. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) on 1 May 1942, the citation noting that he had "destroyed 4 and probably destroyed a further 3 hostile aircraft"."With complete indifference to odds against him, he presses home his attacks with skill and courage," it continued—"He has set an outstanding example." On 11 May, <mask> attempted to down an Italian Reggiane Re.2001 by flying straight at it to ram it; taking erratic evasive manoeuvres, the Italian aircraft stalled and almost crashed into the sea. Thinking he had downed the enemy, <mask> claimed afterwards to have achieved an aerial victory without firing a shot, but the Italian flight reported no losses. <mask>'s Spitfire was lightly hit during this engagement, and the Rhodesian had some luck returning safely; he landed with only three gallons (14 litres) of fuel left. On 16 May, <mask> and an English ace, Pilot Officer Peter Nash, destroyed a Bf 109 for a shared kill that became No. 249 Squadron's 100th victory over Malta. Amid the continuing siege, the need for a major supply convoy to Malta was becoming urgent; the Governor Lord Gort warned Britain in early June that if no supplies came by August, he would have to surrender to prevent a famine.<mask> was promoted in the field to flight lieutenant on 4 June 1942 and transferred to No. 185 Squadron to command "B" Flight. He shot down two Re.2001s two days later to bring his tally of victories to ten (thereby fulfilling his pledge following Leggo's death), and destroyed a Bf 109 on 7 June. A month later, he received a Bar to his DFC, having been adjudged to have shown "exceptional skill and gallantry in combat ... Undeterred by superior numbers of attacking aircraft, he presses home his attacks with great determination." <mask> left Malta when his tour expired on 7 July 1942, flying first to Gibraltar, then the UK. The British finally delivered vital supplies to Malta on 15 August with Operation Pedestal (known in Malta as the "Santa Marija Convoy"). On arriving in England, Plagis was found to be suffering from malnutrition, scabies and physical and mental fatigue.He briefly convalesced in a nursing home, then spent a year as an instructor in England. He was promoted to probationary flying officer on 1 October 1942. Second tour of operations
<mask> returned to action in September 1943, when he was appointed commanding officer of No. 64 Squadron, then flying Spitfire Mk VCs over northern France from RAF Coltishall in Norfolk. Plagis downed a Bf 109 over France on 24 September 1943, then a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 on 23 November, and formally received the rank of flight lieutenant on 8 December 1943. At the start of June 1944, <mask> assumed command of No. 126 (Persian Gulf) Squadron, flying Spitfire Mk IXs that had recently been moved from Malta to assist in the invasion of Normandy.Six of the squadron's planes had been purchased by the Persian Gulf Spitfire Fund, and duly named after the donating sheikdoms; <mask>'s aircraft, which he chose because of the large letter "K" on its tail (echoing his sister's name), had "Muscat" painted in English and Arabic script on its side. He added to this a full rendering of "Kay" and other personal decorations. After leading No. 126 Squadron on raids into Normandy during the Allied invasion, <mask> took part in many of the attacks on German positions in northern France and the Low Countries that followed over the next few months. He was shot down over Arnhem in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden in September 1944, but suffered only minor injuries and quickly returned to action. He received the Distinguished Service Order on 3 November for his "participat[ion] in very many sorties during which much damage has been inflicted on ... [German] shipping, radio stations, oil storage tanks, power plants and other installations". The citation particularly stressed an engagement in which a small group of Allied fighters led by <mask> had taken on a far superior force of enemy aircraft and shot down five of them, Plagis himself downing two.<mask> was described as "a brave and resourceful leader whose example has proved a rare source of inspiration". <mask> converted to Mustang IIIs along with the rest of his squadron at RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk during December 1944 and January 1945, and spent the rest of the war flying bomber escort missions at the head of Bentwaters Wing, which included No. 126 Squadron. He was promoted to squadron leader on 28 March 1945. Germany surrendered on 7 May, ending the war in Europe. <mask> finished the war with a tally of 16 enemy aircraft confirmed destroyed (including two shared victories counted as half a kill each), two shared probably destroyed, six damaged and one shared damaged. This made him Southern Rhodesia's highest-scoring ace of the war, as well as the top-scoring ace of Greek origin.He was one of the most-decorated Southern Rhodesian servicemen of the war. Post-war service and later life

<mask> stayed with the RAF following the end of hostilities, and from September 1946 to December 1947 commanded No. 266 (Rhodesia) Squadron in England and Germany, flying Gloster Meteor F.3s. He was awarded the Airman's Cross by the government of the Netherlands in October 1946. After retiring from the military with the rank of wing commander, <mask> returned home to Southern Rhodesia in 1948. A street in the north Salisbury suburb of Alexandra Park had been named after him in recognition of his wartime exploits; he moved into the house at the end of the road, 1 John Plagis Avenue. He married in 1954 and had three sons and a daughter.<mask> set up and ran a bottle store bearing his name in Salisbury, and was involved in several businesses during the next three decades, serving as a director on company boards, including Central African Airways from 1963 to 1968. He joined the Rhodesian Front on its formation in 1962, and was its candidate in Salisbury City in that year's general election, losing to the United Federal Party's <mask> Nicholson by 631 votes to 501. According to a report published by the Zimbabwe African National Union in 1969, Plagis was by then working in the office of the Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith (himself a Second World War Spitfire pilot), with responsibility for the premier's written correspondence. In later life, <mask> became a friend of British ace Douglas Bader, a prominent supporter of Rhodesia's  Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. Bader, Smith and Plagis often socialised. Plagis also knew L Ron Hubbard, the American founder of Scientology, who briefly relocated to Salisbury in 1966. Hubbard initiated numerous business schemes in Rhodesia, including the purchase of the Bumi Hills Hotel at Kariba.<mask> was one of two local businessmen who partnered with Hubbard in the Bumi Hills deal. He also sold Hubbard an interest in his holdings before the American was deported. <mask> died in 1974, aged 54 or 55; according to Lauren St <mask>, an author from Gadzema, he had taken his own life, having never truly readjusted to the civilian world. Notes and references

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<mask> of Villehardouin () (c. 1169 – c. 1229) was a French knight from the County of Champagne who joined the Fourth Crusade. He participated in the conquest of the Peloponnese and became the second prince of Achaea (1209/1210–c. 1229). Under his reign, the Principality of Achaea became the direct vassal of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. He extended the borders of his principality, but the closing years of his rule were marked by his conflict with the church. Early years and the Fourth Crusade

<mask> was the eldest son of John of Villehardouin and his wife, Céline of Briel. He married one Elisabeth, traditionally identified with Elisabeth of Chappes, a scion of a fellow crusader family, an identification rejected by Longnon.He took the cross with his uncle, <mask>in, the future chronicler of the Fourth Crusade, at a tournament of Écry-sur-Aisne in late November 1199. <mask> were among the crusaders who went directly to Syria. Thus he was not present at the occupation of Constantinople by the crusaders on 13 April 1204. But hearing of the capture of the great city on the Bosporus, he decided to sail west in the summer of 1204. But the weather became bad, and adverse winds drove him westward. He landed at Modon (now Methoni, Greece) in the southern Peloponnese where he spent the winter of 1204–1205. Conquest of the Peloponnese

At Modon, <mask> entered into an alliance with a Greek archon (nobleman) from Messenia to conquer as much of the western Peloponnese as they could.Almost immediately afterward, however, the Greek died, and his son broke off the alliance. It was at this point that <mask> learned of the appearance of King Boniface I of Thessalonica (1204–1207) with his army before Nauplia (now Nafplion, Greece). He determined to seek aid and rode up early in 1205 to join the king. He was well received by Boniface I who would have retained <mask> in his service. But in the camp at Nauplia, <mask> found his good friend William of Champlitte and offered to the latter to share the conquest of the Peloponnese. His friend accepted the offer and the two also received royal permission for their expedition. They set out with 100 knights and 400 mounted men-at-arms upon their campaign in the spring of 1205.They took Patras and Pondikos by assault, and Andravida opened its gates. The people of the countryside came to make their submission and were confirmed in their property and local customs. Only in Arcadia (now Kyparissia) were the crusaders resisted. This opposition was led by landlords from Arcadia and Laconia, particularly the Chamaretos family, allied to the Slavic Melingoi tribe. The resistance was soon joined by a certain Michael, identified by many scholars with <mask> Komnenos Doukas (1204–1215) who was then creating his own principality in Epiros. Michael advanced into the Peloponnese with 5,000 men, but the little crusader army defeated him at Kountouras in northeast Messenia. Then the crusaders completed the conquest of the region and advanced into the interior of the country, occupying the entire peninsula with the exception of Arcadia and Laconia.William of Champlitte thus became master of the Peloponnese with the title prince of Achaea (1205–1209) under the suzerainty of the king of Thessalonica. <mask> received Kalamata and Messenia as a fief from the new prince. However, the Republic of Venice proceeded to make good her claims that the leaders of the Fourth Crusade had guaranteed it by the partition treaty of 1204 to the important way stations along the sea route to Constantinople. Thus the Venetians armed a fleet which took Modon and Coron (Koroni) in 1206, but William of Champlitte compensated <mask> by assigning Arcadia to him. Reign in Achaea

In 1208 <mask> of Achaea departed for France in order to claim an inheritance his brother had left to him. <mask> appointed <mask> to administer the principality as bailiff until the prince’s nephew, Hugh should arrive. However, both the first prince of Achaea and his nephew died very shortly.In May 1209, <mask> went to the Parliament of Ravennika that the Latin Emperor <mask> (1206–1216) had convoked at Ravennika to assure the emperor of his loyalty. The emperor confirmed <mask> as prince of Achaea and made him immediate imperial vassal. Moreover, <mask> also appointed <mask> seneschal of the Latin Empire. The Chronicle of the Morea narrates that <mask> only became prince of Achaea some time later, because the late <mask>’s nephew, Robert had a year and a day to travel to the Peloponnese and claim his inheritance. According to the story, all sorts of ruses were used to cause delays in Robert’s trip east, and when he finally arrived in the Peloponnese <mask> kept moving from place to place with the leading knights until the time had elapsed. <mask> then held an assembly that declared that the heir had forfeited his rights and elected <mask> hereditary prince of Achaea. Nevertheless, already in June 1209 <mask> made a pact with the Venetians on the island of Sapientza, whereby he acknowledged himself to be the vassal of the Republic of Venice for all the lands extending from Corinth to the roadstead of Navarino (now Pylos, Greece).<mask> also gave Venice the right to free trade throughout his principality. Afterward <mask> devoted himself to enlarging his possessions. With the aid of <mask>, the lord of Athens (1204–1225), he seized, in 1209 or 1210, the fortress of Acrocorinth where first Leo Sgouros, and then Theodore Komnenos Doukas, brother of <mask> of Epirus had resisted the attacks of the crusaders. In the months that followed, Nauplia was also taken, and early in 1212 the stronghold of Argos, where Theodore Komnenos Doukas had stored the treasure of the Church of Corinth, likewise fell into the hands of <mask> and <mask>. When Albertino and Rolandino of Canossa, the lords of Thebes had left their town, the lordship of Thebes was divided equally between <mask> and the lord of Athens. <mask> I sent to France, mainly to Champagne, for young knights to occupy the newly conquered lands and the fiefs of those who had returned to the west. Under <mask> the assignment of fiefs and the obligations which went with them were reviewed before the barons assembled in a great parliament at Andravida.Thus a dozen or so great baronies came into being in the principality, and those who received the titles to them made up with their many vassals the High Court of Achaea. At the time of the conquest much ecclesiastical property had been secularized and, despite the demands of the clergy, this had not been returned to the churches. The Chronicle of the Morea reports that when the churches refused to provide their fair share of military aid, <mask> seized their property and devoted the income from it to the construction of the powerful castle of Clermont. Furthermore, <mask> was also accused of treating the Greek priests as serfs because their numbers had considerably increased, since the Greek prelates showed no hesitation in conferring orders on peasants to permit them to escape the burdens of serfdom. These events resulted in a prolonged conflict with the church. First the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, Gervasius promulgated a decree of excommunication against <mask> and laid an interdict upon Achaea. Upon the request of <mask>, however, on 11 February 1217 Pope Honorius <mask> (1216–1227) declared that the patriarch was to relax the sentence within a week after the receipt of the papal letter.Then the patriarch sent out a legate who laid a new interdict upon the Principality of Achaea. But his act was again qualified by the pope as usurpation of the power of the Holy See. Next the papal legate Cardinal Giovanni Colonna who was travelling through the Peloponnese in 1218 excommunicated <mask> because of the prince's contumacious retention of certain abbeys, churches, rural parishes, and ecclesiastical goods. Upon the request of the local high clergy, the pope confirmed <mask>'s excommunication on 21 January 1219. The pope even declared <mask> to be an enemy of God “more inhuman than Pharaoh”. The conflict lasted some five years, until 1223 when <mask> decided to negotiate and sent one of his knights to Rome. Finally on September 4, 1223 Pope Honorius <mask> confirmed the accord that had been drawn up between the prince and the church of Achaea.According to the treaty, <mask> I restored the church lands, but he kept the treasures and furnishings of the churches in exchange for an annual indemnity and the number of Greek priests enjoying liberty and immunity was also to be limited in proportion to the size of the community. In the meantime, Theodore Komnenos Doukas, now ruler of Epirus (1215–1224), had attacked the kingdom of Thessalonica and laid siege the kingdom's capital. <mask>, despite the urgent appeals of the pope, did not appear to have assisted the threatened city that finally surrendered near the end of 1224. <mask> died sometime between 1228 and 1230 at the age of about sixty. 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See also
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Principality of Achaea
Chronicle of Morea

References

 Evergates, Theodore (2007). The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300.University of Pennsylvania Press. .

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Bratu, Cristian. “Clerc, Chevalier, Aucteur: The Authorial Personae of French Medieval Historians from the 12th to the 15th centuries.” In Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles. Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks, eds. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012): 231-259. Finley Jr, John H. "Corinth in the Middle Ages." Speculum, Vol. 7, No.4. (Oct., 1932), pp. 477–499. Tozer, H. F. "The Franks in the Peloponnese." The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 4. (1883), pp.165–236. 12th-century births
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<mask> (); (January 7, 1893 - October 10, 1938) was a researcher of different types of national wrestling and martial arts. He was ranked as a Merited Master of Sports of the USSR and an Honored Coach of the USSR. He was one of the founders of Sambo, a martial art developed in the Soviet Union. During the political purges of 1937, <mask> was accused of being a Japanese spy, and was executed in prison as a result. Early life

Very little is known about <mask>  earlier life before adulthood. Although he became an orphan by 8. Education at the Kodokan
After the transfer in 1905 of South Sakhalin to Japan under the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1904, <mask> by this time an orphan, who was sent to study in  Starting in September 1907 he studied at the Theological seminar in Tokyo in the Orthodox mission, organized by the future St Nicholas of Japan.In the seminary he studied judo, and, on the recommendation of the coach as the best judoka at the Seminary Vasily was admitted to the entrance examinations and admitted to the Kodokan Judo Institute in Tokyo, founded by Jigoro Kano, on October 29, 1911. On June 15, 1913 <mask> received the first degree black belt - shodan (first dan); in October 1917, during a trip to Japan, he passed the exams to receive his second degree black belt, becoming the first Russian and the third European to get a nidan in judo. Ranks in judo did not go to tenth degree, as now, but only fifth degree. Work in intelligence
After finishing seminary in 1913, he returned to Russia and worked as a translator in counterintelligence, first as a Zaamurskogo border guard in Harbin, then in the Department of Counterintelligence at Vladivostok Fortress, Amur Military District, in Vladivostok. In 1914, he founded Russia's first judo school and the world's first international judo competition held in 1915. He repeatedly went on business trips to Japan and in 1918 he taught judo to police in Vladivostok. In 1919 he worked for the Siberian Army and in the Japanese Office of Military Field Communications as an interpreter.During this period he, through a colleague, fellow countryman and fellow student at the Tokyo Seminary Trofim Yurkevich, established a connection with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. At the same time, enterprising <mask> tries to earn: he opens a school for teaching the Japanese language, participates in trade operations with Japan, and even buys a film projector. After the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Primorye <mask>, he received an offer of cooperation with Soviet intelligence, and on September 1, 1923 had given a written cooperation with the Division of Human Intelligence of the 5th Army of the Red Army, and was then sent to the North Sakhalin, which until 1925, still remained under Japanese occupation. In 1924 <mask> returned to Japan under the guise of the owner inherited from his father's houses in Alexandrovsk and Booker: under a Japanese law film the distributor was obliged to arrange preferential sessions for military personnel. His reports in the Soviet Union had an important practical meaning, for example, allowed to withdraw Japanese troops from the north of Sakhalin, but because of disagreements with his incompetent superiors in 1926 had to return to the USSR, where he was accused of embezzling state-owned assets. To compensate for 3140 yen spent on agents, but not backed by receipts, he had to sell almost all private property, including the projector. Work in the Siberian military district
At the headquarters of the Siberian Military District, he was not going to lose highly yaponista and <mask> left Vladivostok as a translator.The January 27, 1927 order of the number 26 Revvovensoveta USSR "<mask> Vasily Sergeyevich determined to serve in the Red Army." Then on this basis, "the order of the Siberian Military District for the number 19" VS Oshchepkov "shall be appointed interpreter of the 7th District Headquarters Branch" in Novosibirsk, with the appointment has been issued retroactively - from 15 April 1926, with the payment of all laid during this period allowance. Almost all means <mask> went for treatment for his sick wife. He began to try to get into Moscow or Leningrad, where they could provide more effective medical care and have a higher salary. As a result, in September 1929, he was summoned to Moscow. His wife by this time, had already died. Popularization of judo in the USSR and the creation of Sambo
In 1914, immediately after his arrival in Russia, <mask> organized in the Vladivostok circle of Judo, which functioned at the address.Ship Embankment. 21 (now - the Sports Club of the Pacific Fleet), what in June 1915, an article appeared in the Moscow magazine "Hercules". In 1917 in Vladivostok, the first in the history of the much-touted international match Judo:  Oshchepkova students competed with students of Japanese Higher Commercial School Otaru, came to Vladivostok that such an international match was in 1915. In 1927, at a meeting in the Novosibirsk Osoaviahima cell at the headquarters of the Siberian Military District, <mask> made a story about judo, then immediately it was decided to arrange for headquarters staff study group techniques of self-defense. Specialist services rushed to take advantage of a rare and local society "Dynamo". Immediately after the transfer to Moscow  Oshchepkov opened at the Central House of the Red Army (CDKA) two-month course "dzyuu-up" (writing at the time). After the first demonstrations in CSKA Moscow immediately created two groups of military personnel and Army House, as well as the country's first female group.In 1929 he became a teacher at the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism. Work at the Institute of Physical Education gave <mask> unique insight into the struggle of the peoples of the USSR systems, whose representatives were trained in his chair. He analyzed the bayonet, international sports, martial arts, Chinese martial arts and a number of national kinds of struggle in terms of their applicability in a combat encounter. On the basis of this analysis, <mask> amalgamated the underlying movement patterns to create a martial art better suited for war-based combat which later became known as Sambo. In 1930, with the direct participation <mask> was prepared and published "Guidelines for the physical preparation of the Red Army," and in 1931 - textbook "Exercise of the Red Army," where for the first time a program was set for a comprehensive program of training fighting. In parallel with the publication of teaching materials VS Oshchepkov held special courses for officers of the Moscow garrison, and then turned to the job of instructor-methodological Office of the Moscow garrison committee, directly himself carried the teaching of martial arts in several military units, and also took part in the competitions Moscow garrison commanders on the bayonet, taking first place there. In 1931, the Soviet Union developed a sports complex Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR.In 1932, the complex was established by the TRP of the second stage, in which, as one of the rules of self-defense techniques appeared. Development of a set of techniques for the TRP-II on behalf of the Special Commission, chaired by Sergey Kamenev was engaged  Oshchepkov. In 1930, on the basis of CSKA Moscow, but through the sports committee, VS Oshchepkov conducted special training of trainers, which were trained physical education teachers from various regions of the country. Among them was Alexander Rubanchik from Rostov-on-Don, who served in the militia, and on whose initiative Oshchepkov held demonstrations in the Central High School militia, which, apart from himself, attended by graduates of the course in its entirety. The demonstration was a great success, then VS Oshchepkov immediately was invited to teach at this school police headquarters. In addition to the required course of unarmed combat,  <mask> began to lead in TSVSHM and club work, which continued at the military faculty Infizkulta. The training program Oshchepkova and club activities in TSVSHM were eliminated in 1934 at the request of VA Spiridonov, saying that it was contrary to his own and formally approved by the program.In 1932, when Infizkulte was established in the Military Department, teaching of martial arts and combat clothing as in the faculty and in organized courses carried with him to Oshchepkov. In the years 1933-1934 he also taught students a two-year school named after N. Unions Shvernik. In 1934 Vasily Sergeyevich creates its own section in the newly built Palace of Sports Aviakhim that in 1935 sends his apprentice, intern from Infizkulta AA Kharlampiev. In the summer of 1937 VS Oshchepkov achieved specialization opening Judo organized with Infizkulte High School coaches. Arrest and death

On the night of 1 to 2 October 1937, Oschchepkov was arrested. He died in the Butyrka prison, officially of a heart attack. In reality he was accused of being a Japanese spy and ten days after his arrest he was shot in the head for his fraternization with “Japanese imperialists.” In 1957  <mask> <mask>  was posthumously pardoned and found innocent of any wrongdoing.Personal life
<mask> was married three times. He divorced his first wife Katerina Zhuravleva in 1924. He fell in love with a 17-year old countrywoman Maria from Alexander G., who lived at that time in the same city. At 22, Maria died of tuberculosis. Later, <mask> married Anna Ivanovna. In his later years, <mask> began to struggle with health problems. <mask>'s pupils noted that he never showed himself naked.Some have concluded that he was concealing some skin disease. Trainee Kharlampiev and Oshchepkova AA Budzinskaya said that he was at the home of the teacher at the beginning of 1937 in an alley Medvedev. According to him, "Vasily Sergeyevich lying on the bed and I was sick, he has tormented heart disease, and he never parted with nitroglycerin. Legacy
In the 2000s in various regions of Russia were organized clubs and tournaments Sambo memory <mask>, including the All-Russian youth tournament in combat sambo in memory of <mask> <mask>, including the Russian youth tournament in combat sambo named after <mask> <mask>. During the meeting, the Board of the APEC in Vladivostok in September 2012, he was laid monument master. In order to promote sambo in Russia and the world, as well as the formation of images in the public mind the heroes of the Fatherland on the example of the life and mission of St. <mask> and other worthy devotees on the initiative of a number of sports and public organizations in Russia , he launched a project named <mask> Oshchepkova project.On September 9, 2012, the 120th anniversary of <mask>'s birthday was celebrated in Vladivostok's sports center, with participation of judokas from Japan and Russia. In October, 2014, the World Sambo Championships were held for the first time in Japan where Oshchevpkov had learned judo. In September, 2016, at Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Premier Abe of Japan, emphasizing the Russo-Japanese friendship, mentioned in his address: "I hope to visit 21 Korabelnaya Embankment where, as Mr. Putin would know well, <mask> Oshchepkov opened the first judo school in Russia." On September 24, 2016, the sculpture by Peter Chegadayev of <mask> <mask> receiving a black belt from Jigoro Kano, entitled "Fighting Tiger Cubs", was unveiled at the place where Oshchepkov had opened the first judo school in Russia. Bibliography

 Лукашев М. Н. Сотворение самбо: родиться в царской тюрьме и умереть в сталинской. — М.: «Будо-Спорт», 2003. — 104 с.— . References

1893 births
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Great Purge victims from Russia
Martial arts school founders
People convicted of treason
People convicted of treason against the Soviet Union
People from Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky District
Russian male judoka
Russian sambo practitioners
Soviet martial artists
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<mask> (17 March 1923 – 14 November 2000) was a civil servant, journalist, poet, and writer from Pakistan, close to the country’s first military dictator Ayub Khan to the point his detractors called him Khan’s Svengali and Goebbels. Early life
He was born in Gujranwala on 17 March 1923 into a Rajput-Janjua family and did his post graduation in English literature from the Government College University, Lahore. Civil service career

<mask> entered the Civil Service of Pakistan in 1948. Starting his career as Secretary, State Bank of Pakistan, he rose to be Information Secretary Government of Pakistan at the age of 39. During his tenure, draconian laws governing the press were passed, something for which <mask> later publicly apologised. He was a gifted writer and became very close to President Ayub Khan, so much so that he was known as the de facto vice president of Pakistan. He was the main ghost writer for the latter's autobiography entitled Friends Not Masters, published 1967.After the death of his old mentor, he wrote the biography, Ayub Khan : Pakistan's First Military Ruler, which gave a different story altogether, prompting people to question 'who is the real Ayub?' The last official act of President Ayub Khan before handing over power was to invite <mask> <mask> to lunch with his family and bestow on him the high civil award of Hilal-i-Quaid-i-Azam. Through some palace intrigues, President Yahya Khan assumed power on 25 March 1969. A day or two before that he had had a serious altercation with <mask> <mask> who wanted Ayub Khan to continue. In 1969, <mask> was initially marginalized as Director Finance Services Academy Lahore, a position much lower in rank than a Central Secretary. Subsequently, he was dismissed from service and all his four civil awards were forfeited. Post civil service career

On leaving the civil service in 1969, he became editor of the Pakistani daily newspaper Dawn.Later, when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was chief martial law administrator, he was twice imprisoned. It was while in jail, that <mask> became deeply absorbed by the Quran, from which he was later to make several distinguished translations, the last one shortly before he died, when he was in great pain and undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. On release from prison, he left Dawn for London and launched the journals Third World Review and Third World Quarterly (in association with The Guardian newspaper), South magazine, and established the Third World Foundation. After BCCI went into liquidation, he returned to Pakistan, and continued into journalism. He poured all his energies into the role of editor-in-chief of the Muslim. Death

Latterly, <mask> restricted himself to an occasional column in the newspaper The Muslim, but left the newspaper when its editor, A. B. S. Jafri, was sacked by the owner.In Pakistan, on his death, he was commemorated as "a very eminent Pakistani", a man who knew power and how it could be used or abused. <mask> died of cancer on 14 November 2000 at the age of 77 years. Bibliography

Urdu
Nai Bengali afsanai, 1955. Translation of modern short stories from the Bengali language. Teḥrīren̲ cand, 1995. Articles on Urdu literature; includes some poems. Ayyūb K̲h̲ān, faujī rāj ke pahle das sāl, 1995.Historical study of the first 10 years of the rule of Mohammad Ayub Khan, 1907–1974 as a chief martial law administrator, written by the information secretary of his government. Likhte rahe jinon̲ kī ḥikāyat, 1997. Articles on socio-political conditions in Pakistan arranged chronologically from 1993 to 1996. Gauhar-i guzashtah, 2007. Autobiography. English
Twenty years of Pakistan, 1947–1967, 1967. Translations from the Quran, 1975.V. 1. A charter of human liberty. The original path. A people most balances. The fall of a nation. The arrogance of reason. There is no compulsion in religion.Ibrahim's prayer. In moments of distress. v. 2. The Qur'anic concept of justice. The doctrine of abrogation. On prohibition. On interest.The Islamic concept of world economic order, 1977. The Challenge of Islam, 1978. Third World strategy : economic and political cohesion in the South, 1983. Edited by <mask> <mask> ; contributions by Ali Ahmed Attiga [and others]. The Rich and the poor : development, negotiations, and cooperation : an assessment, 1983. Papers from the Beijing South-South Conference, held 4–7 April 1983 in Peking, edited by <mask> <mask>. South-south strategy, 1983.Edited by <mask> <mask>. Talking about development, 1983. Edited by <mask> <mask>. Shared horizon : interviews with leaders of thought, 1985. Regional integration : the Latin American experience, 1985. This book seeks to explain why regional integration, originally perceived as vital to the development of Latin America, now finds these countries among the most adversely affected by the present economic crisis. At this crucial juncture in their development, when most of Latin America is faced with a gigantic debt burden and unprecedented social and political instability, the contributors to this book call for a review of the framework under which regional integration presently operates.The book outlines and discusses new formulae to make integration workable within the constraints of the present economic conditions and pressures facing Latin American countries. Pakistan: elections for survival: open letter to Prime Minister Junejo, 1987. Arab petrodollars : dashed hope for a new economic order, 1987. Ayub Khan, Pakistan's first military ruler, 1996. A candid account of Ayub's rule. The much-publicized Decade of Reforms, the inner story of Ayub's election struggle against his chief contender, Miss Jinnah, and the story behind the Tashkent Declaration and the Agartala Conspiracy, are all under scrutiny. This analyses the 'two pleas' sent by Nehru to Kennedy and the resulting correspondence, and throws light on subjects that were previously unknown or shrouded in mystery
Thoughts and after thoughts, 1998.Collection of articles previously published in a Daily "The Nation" during 1995–1998. References

External links
 A short Bio. Pakistani biographers
Pakistani civil servants
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2000 deaths
20th-century biographers
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Poets from Lahore

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<mask> is an American jazz trumpeter, electronic valve instrument (EVI) player, composer, arranger, conductor, bandleader, producer and educator. Early life
<mask> is the son of <mask>, trumpeter for Stan Kenton and Los Angeles studio musician, and <mask>, music educator and pianist. He was born in Los Angeles and moved to Ada, Oklahoma at age 7. He also lived in Las Vegas and Sacramento before returning to Los Angeles for high school at Hamilton Academy of Music. Career
<mask> has degrees from UCLA, California Institute of the Arts, and a doctorate from USC. He is Chair of Studio Music and Jazz at University of Miami, Frost School of Music and directs the Frost Concert Jazz Band. Before this appointment, he taught the Jazz Studies Program at California State University, Northridge.He regularly performs with the <mask> Progressive Big Band, <mask> Small Band, and is a guest conductor and soloist all over the world. <mask> has worked with Moonchild, Fiona Apple, Burt Bacharach, Joe Cocker, Andraé Crouch, Gin, Herbie Hancock, Holiday on Ice, Bob Mintzer Big Band, Renee Olstead, Regina Spektor, Andy Williams, and The Yellowjackets. His playing has been featured on film and television, including The Five-Year Engagement, Key and Peele, The King of Queens, and Promised Land. His album American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom (BFM Jazz, 2018) won three Grammy Awards at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, "Don't Fence Me In" won in the Best Improvised Jazz Solo category, and "Stars and Stripes Forever" won in the Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella category. Discography

As leader or co-leader

 All Without Words: Variations Inspired by Loren, <mask> Jazz Orchestra featuring Justin Morell, 2021
 Cuarentena: With Family at Home, <mask> Quintet, Cuarentena: With Family at Home, 2020
 American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom, <mask> Big Band featuring DACA Artists, 2018
 Wobbly Dance Flower, <mask> featuring Bob Mintzer, 2017
 Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music of the Beatles, <mask>, 2016
 Artful Joy, <mask>, 2012
 Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album, <mask>, 2011
 Shogun Warrior, Plays for Lovers, Shogun Warrior, 2010
 Westland, Westland Trio, 2010
 Live at Catalina’s, (Vol. I), <mask>rsa Big Band, 2009 (Recorded live in 2000)
 Live at Catalina’s, Vol. II, <mask> Daversa Big Band, 2000
 The D.a.M.Band, The Daversa and Morell Band, 1994

As producer or co-producer

 Swing States: Harmony in the Battleground (Feat. Jon Batiste, <mask>, and Harvey Mason) Regina Carter Freedom Band, 2020
 Shoulder to Shoulder: Centennial Tribute to Women’s Suffrage, Karrin Allyson Sextet, 2019
 Justin Morell Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Orchestra (feat. Adam Rogers), Frost Concert Jazz Band, Conducted by <mask>, 2018
 Transcendence, Trinity Devi, 2018
 Europa: Explorations for Large Jazz Ensemble, Frost Concert Jazz Band, Conducted by <mask>, 2017
 Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music of the Beatles, <mask>, 2016
 Harmony – Venus Gong, Trinity Devi, 2015
 Oneness – Ek Ong Kar Gong, Trinity Devi, 2015
 Focus, Kendall Moore, 2014
 El Guapo, Scott Jeppesen, 2013
 Love for Sale, James Tormé, 2011
 Live at Catalina’s, (Vol. I), <mask> Big Band, 2009 (Recorded live in 2000)
 Buck’s Vibe, Peter Buck, 2008
 Time for Christmas, Phil Crosby, Jr., 2007
 Live at Catalina’s, Vol. II, <mask> Big Band, 2000

As band-member

 Come Fly With Me (Single), Ledisi, Gregg Field, <mask>, Patti Austin, Randy Waldman, Willie Murillo, Jeff Driskill, Erik Hughes, and Kate Duhamel, 2021
 LowJacked, Jackson 6, 2021
 Cheap Thrill: The Music of Rick Margitza (feat. Chuck Bergeron), South Florida Jazz Orchestra, 2020
 Swing States: Harmony in the Battleground (Feat.

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<mask> (March 16, 1927 – May 29, 2012) was an American actor, who performed many voices in his career, which spanned the period from the early 1950s into the 21st century. <mask> voiced both male and female children. Perhaps his most recognizable characterization was the voice of the stop-motion animation figure called "Speedy Alka-Seltzer", featured in television commercials for more than 50 years. Early life
<mask> was born in Detroit, Michigan, on March 16, 1927, and graduated in 1949 from Michigan State University (MSU), where he majored in radio broadcasting and puppetry. He covered intramural sports and performed in weekly radio dramas for the campus radio station WKAR. <mask> was also a member of the Michigan State cheerleading squad. Career
In January 1949, as a senior at MSU, <mask> got a call to do a radio commercial for WXYZ, Detroit.After the show, the director asked him to be on call for all the children's voices as well as those of small, talking animals on all three network radio shows produced by WXYZ: The Lone Ranger, Green Hornet and Challenge of the Yukon. <mask> was a member of the cast of The Hudson Sketchbook, the "first regularly scheduled TV program to go on the air in Detroit," on WWJ-TV. In 1952, after performing in an episode of The Green Hornet, WXYZ station manager Jack McCarthy referred <mask> to Forrest Owen of Wade Advertising. Owen showed <mask> a rendering of a proposed product spokesman for their client, Alka-Seltzer and had him record a voice audition. Four months later, <mask> was notified that he had been selected as the voice for Speedy Alka-Seltzer as well as the voice of Sticky, the Vaseline mascot. <mask> moved to Los Angeles where he continued making commercials as Speedy Alka-Seltzer and also provided voices for other commercials, such as Alka-Seltzer, Oscar Mayer, the Campbell Soup Kids, and Bob's Big Boy. <mask> recorded his first Speedy Alka-Seltzer television commercial in 1953, doing a total of 225 in his career.In 1953, <mask> was hired to do the voice for his first cartoon character. This was Ralph Phillips, a Walter Mitty-type boy in From A to Z-Z-Z-Z by Warner Bros.  Cartoons. The cartoon was nominated for an Academy Award. <mask> continued doing voices for cartoons Warner Bros. Cartoons cartoons, often as uncredited secondary characters. When Hanna-Barbera started with The Flintstones, and then The Jetsons, <mask> provided many of the children's voices on those shows, sometimes performing several different minor characters on the same show. One of his recurring roles was as Mr. Spacely's son Arthur on The Jetsons with the exception of season 3. From 1960 to 1964, <mask> played the voice of Davey Hansen, as well as other child voices, on Davey and Goliath.He did not do any voices for that series after 1965, when Norma MacMillan replaced him as Davey. Although some sources say that <mask> voiced Gumby in the 1960s, <mask> himself refuted this claim in a 2001 interview. <mask> provided voices for both the characters "Yank" and "Dan" of the "American Eagles" troupe in the mid-1960s cartoon series Roger Ramjet. In 1967, <mask> was the singing voice of child actor Bobby Riha as "Jack" in the NBC-TV special Jack and the Beanstalk starring Gene Kelly. He was the voice of Buzz Conroy, the boy scientist on Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles, and Richie Rich's mischievous cousin, Reggie Van Dough on Richie Rich. <mask> was also the voice of Birdboy on Birdman and the Galaxy Trio as well as the voices for Buzzer Bell, Jasper N. Parks and on rare occasions sharing the voice role of Nancy Wible as Shrinking Violette on The Funny Company. He also provided the voice for the recurring villain Tiny Tom in the 1966–1969 cartoon series The Lone Ranger.A unique on-camera role came in a 1960 episode of Peter Gunn called "The Dummy", in which he played a human ventriloquist's dummy that performs the act on its own, since the ventriloquist had lost his voice, his other live action role was in the 1950s television series Craig Kennedy, Criminologist, playing as Bobby "Butch" Moore in the episode "The Kid Brother". In the 1980s, <mask> owned an ad agency. During the late 1980s, <mask> provided the voices for various characters on Garfield and Friends with the most major character he voiced being Jon's cruel nephew Rosco. In the 1987 release of Arnold Leibovit's The Puppetoon Movie, <mask> provided the voice for the character Speedy Alka-Selzer. From 1989–1993, he played Nicholas Adamsworth on the Focus on the Family radio drama Adventures in Odyssey. In 1996, <mask> provided the voice of the Pinocchio puppet in the horror film Pinocchio's Revenge. <mask> continued doing occasional voice acting, appearing as a guest at Old Time Radio conventions and as a motivational speaker.He was active as an alumnus of Michigan State University and in his spare time he enjoyed spending time on his yacht Think Big. He retired from voice acting in late 2005, his final voice acting role was Baby-Faced Moonbeam in the animated television series Duck Dodgers. Personal life
<mask> wrote in his autobiography, Think Big, that his high voice and boyish appearance were due to a glandular problem; he did not go through puberty (much like Walter Tetley, who had provided the voice for Sherman on The Bullwinkle Show). <mask> was 4 foot 7 inches (just under 140 cm) tall and weighed just under 70 pounds (about 31 kg). Despite his short stature, he flew planes using modified controls. <mask> died on May 29, 2012, at Vista Gardens Memory Care in Vista, California, at the age of 85. Filmography

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Commercials
Alka-Seltzer - Speedy Alka-Seltzer (1953–1976)

References

External links

 Alka-Seltzer FAQ
 "Gumby's Name, Personality and Voice"

1927 births
2012 deaths
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American male radio actors
American male voice actors
Actors with dwarfism
Hanna-Barbera people
Michigan State University alumni
Male actors from Detroit
Warner Bros. Cartoons voice actors

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<mask> (born 1939) is an Australian family therapist, clinical psychologist (MAPS) and author. Born in Israel, <mask> migrated to Australia as a young man and settled there in 1961. He is one of the pioneers of family therapy in Australia; one of the nation's best known family therapists. <mask> has published and taught extensively in his professional area, both in Australia and worldwide. Education and career
<mask> studied psychology at the University of Melbourne. From 1965 to 1979, he was senior psychologist at the Bouverie Clinic, as well as director of training. During a sabbatical, in 1975, <mask> worked in Ramat-Chen Mental Health Clinic in Israel.In 1979, <mask> founded Williams Road Family Therapy Centre - the first independent centre of its kind in Australia. He was co-director of the Centre, with Dr Brian Stagoll,  from 1981 to 1997. <mask> remained involved with the Centre until 2012, when he became director of Williams Road Psychotherapy Centre. <mask> was Foundation President of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) from 1979 to 1988 and President of the Victorian Association of Family Therapists (VAFT), now known as the Australian Association of Family Therapy (AAFT), from 1982 to 1984. In 1994, <mask> was Recipient of the Inaugural Award of Special Services to Family Therapy from ANZJFT and, in 1992, he was awarded Life Membership from AAFT. In 1980, <mask> gave the keynote address at the Inaugural Family Therapy Conference in Melbourne 1980. In addition to his clinical practice, <mask> is a prolific author and educator.His work includes a number of books, an educational DVD set, as well as radio and podcast interviews. Key interest areas
<mask> has published extensively on themes ranging from therapy with children and adolescents, couples therapy, depression, eating disorders, holocaust survivors and their families, trans-generational trauma, school refusal, suicide and teaching family therapy. Publications
<mask> has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters in compilations, and books. His work has been translated and published in other languages. The Children's Depression Scale (CDS), co-authored with Miriam Tisher, has been used in many countries to research depression in children, and has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Hindu and Arabic. His other books are similarly highly regarded, having been extensively reviewed and on best seller lists, with some titles have been translated and published in other languages, such as Hebrew and French. Storytelling and critical appraisal
Much of <mask>'s published work demonstrates two core values.The first being the value of storytelling as a medium for learning. In his books Corrupting the Young and Resilience, co-authored with his wife Tesse <mask>, <mask> uses a collection of short to medium stories to give readers a view into the clinician's room and insight into how family therapy works. <mask> offers "a journeyman style of learning... the reader being left to come to their own construction; where the author, therapist and teacher facilitates rather than instructs". With the story format, <mask> "calls upon the imagination as well as the intellect and leads to deeper insight". The other core value demonstrated in <mask>'s work is the importance of exposing one’s practice for critical appraisal. He was one of the pioneers in Australia of video recording his work and writing in some depth about the subtleties of doing family therapy. Further, he invited other psychotherapy professionals to provide commentary on his clinical practice, such as in his book A Family in Therapy, co-authored with Peter McCallum, and its updated republication The Answer Within.<mask> continued this practice of invited commentary for a number of his major journal articles. With the release of his highly praised DVD-set Behind Closed Doors, <mask> further expanded the format of making his work transparent by demonstration, and thereby open to review. Bibliography

Books
 <mask>, T. & <mask>, M. (1986). Corrupting The Young: And Other Stories of a Family Therapist. Victoria, Australia: Rene Gordon. McCallum, P. & <mask>, M. (1989). A Family in Therapy.Victoria, Australia: McPhee Gribble/Penguin. <mask>, M. & McCallum, P. (2000). The Answer Within: A Family in Therapy Re-Examined. Melbourne, Australia: ACER Press. <mask>, M. & Tisher, M. (2004). Children’s Depression Scale (CDS) (3rd ed.). Melbourne, Australia: ACER Press.<mask>, M. & <mask>, T. (2007) Resilience: Timeless Stories of a Family Therapist (revised ed.). Melbourne, Australia: PsychOz Publications. DVD
 <mask>, M. (2012). Behind Closed Doors: Two therapy session with <mask> <mask> [2-DVD Set]. James, T. (Producer/Director) & Wright, T. (Executive Producer). Filmed by December Media. Melbourne, Australia: Psych Oz Publications.Selected articles / chapters
 Stagoll, B., <mask>, M. & Goding, G.A. (1979). A Model for Family Therapy Training: Based on the Parallel Processes between Training and Treatment. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 1(1), 35-42. <mask>, M. & McCallum, P. (1980). Strategic Family Therapy: Three Case Histories. Australian Family Physician, 9(11), 780-784.Stagoll, B. & <mask>, M. (1980). Climbing the Family Tree: Working with Genograms. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 1(4), 161-170. <mask>, M. (1981). Key Note Address: First Australian Family Therapy Conference: ‘Family Therapy for the Eighties’. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 2(2), 48–55.<mask>, M. & McCallum, P. (1981). Incompletely Fractured Families. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 2(4), 169-174. <mask>, M. & <mask>, T. (1981). Debbie and Her Slurping Stomach. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 3(1), 3-26. <mask>, M. (1982).School Refusal: An Empirical Study and System Analysis. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 3(2), 93-107. <mask>, M. (1982). Bad Therapy – A Way of Learning. In F. Kaslow (Ed. ), International Book of Family Therapy (pp. 447–459).New York, NY: Brunner/Mazel Publishers. <mask>, M. (1984). Bad Therapy: A Way of Learning. Family Therapy Networker, 3(2), 40-44. Tisher, M., <mask>, E. & <mask>, M. (1992). The Children’s Depression Scale: Review of Australian and Overseas Experience. Australian Journal of Psychology, 44(1), 27-35.<mask>, M. (1994). The Long Shadow. Generation, 4(1), 22-32. <mask>, M. (1995). Silence: Therapy with Holocaust Survivors and their Families. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 16(1), 1-10. <mask>, M. (1995).The Shadow of Evil. The Family Therapy Networker, Sept-Oct. ed., 54-67. <mask>,  M. (1998). After the Holocaust: Therapy with Survivors and their Families. In U.P. Gielen & A.L.Comunian (Eds. ), The Family and Family Therapy in International Perspective (pp. 314–354). Trieste, Italy: Edizioni LINT Trieste. <mask>. (2002). ‘Then and Now’: How being Jewish has influenced my work as a Psychotherapist. Psychotherapy in Australia, 8(3), 22-28.Teaching family therapy
<mask> spent his early career at the Bouverie Clinic under Dr Geoff Goding - broadly regarded as the person most instrumental in introducing family therapy to Australia. In 1979, when he founded Williams Road Family Therapy Centre, <mask> envisioned "an independent family therapy institute away from the constraints of bureaucracies", according to Stagoll. The founding of the Centre was a positive development that made its own contribution to the flourishing of family therapy in Australia. It created a collegial atmosphere for learning through its summer schools, in addition to having an open system of working and an "open door policy" for its students. In addition to his work at Williams Road Family Therapy Centre, <mask> has delivered numerous other presentation lectures and workshops on clinical psychotherapy and family therapy. According to Stagoll, <mask> is a "master therapist, with an extraordinary ability to listen and find solutions without ever getting boxed into whatever the reigning ideology is. He taught me to always attend to the experience and requests of the patient and family.Our loyalty is not to the system, but to our clients." <mask> is well known for his unique teaching style which is marked by clarity, humour and empathy. Carolyn Quadrio states that "<mask>’s charm [comes] from his gentle worldliness". Commentary on family therapy
As an expert commentator, <mask> has spoken on family therapy and clinical psychology both in his professional sphere and to the wider public audience. He has been regularly interviewed in print, and on radio and podcast. In 2016, after being interviewed on We All Wear It Differently, a podcast for psychologist professionals, <mask> was invited to be a regular commentator on the segment Mondays with <mask>. <mask> speaks on a broad spectrum of topics - from ones of levity, such as 'Humour in Life and Therapy', to more solemn ones, such as his work with Holocaust survivors.According to Stagoll, it is <mask>'s "courage to enter terrible and violent realms of abuse, torture and terror", such as with Holocaust survivors, that demonstrate "the very best work in Family Therapy". He goes on to say that "together with [his] clients, [<mask> has] been able to maintain a moral clarity and find a capacity to imagine words and stories that can help people move beyond deadly shames and amnesias. [<mask> dares] to speak the unspeakable, and name that which has never been named. By doing this [he helps] reconnect people to both their old communities, and new ones, including communities dedicated explicitly to Human Rights. This work does not deny reality, but openly and honestly confronts it, to find ways to a better place, of justice and remembering." References

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 www.williamsroadpsychotherapy.com.au

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<mask> (; born 8 September 1984) is a Russian racing driver who drove in Formula One for Renault F1 Team in 2010, Lotus Renault GP in 2011 and Caterham F1 Team in 2012. Born in Vyborg, he is known as the "Vyborg Rocket". He was the first Russian to compete in the Formula One World Championship. Early career

Unlike most top drivers, <mask> did not begin his career in karting, as there was very little motorsport where he lived. He began competing in motorsport in 1998, when he took part in rally sprints and ice races. Afterwards he began competing in the Russian Lada Cup in 2001 and gained  as his manager in 2001. He remained in the series for 2002 dominating the championship, winning each round to amass the maximum points total of 500.In 2003, <mask> began racing in the Formula Renault championships. His main campaign was in the Italian Formula Renault Championship for Euronova Racing, finishing 19th overall. During the year he competed in several rounds of the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, the Formula Renault 2.0 UK series, and finished fourth in the British Formula Renault Winter Series at the end of the year, taking one win. He also made his debut in Euro Formula 3000 at Cagliari. In 2004, <mask> turned his attention to the inaugural season of the Russian Lada Revolution championship. He started every race from pole position, but finished as runner-up. He also made selected appearances in Formula Renault and Euro F3000.<mask> remained in Russia for 2005, winning the Lada Revolution Championship with ten wins and the Russian Formula 1600 series with five wins. European series

In 2006, <mask> raced in Euroseries 3000 with Euronova Racing. He finished third in the standings, scoring nine podiums in eighteen races including four wins at Hungaroring, Mugello Circuit, Silverstone Circuit and Circuit de Catalunya. Also he participated in the Brno round of the 2006 F3000 International Masters season, where he took a pole position. During the 2006 season <mask> made his debut in the GP2 Series for David Price Racing. He replaced French driver Olivier Pla, who lost his sponsorship from Direxiv in the team from the German round onwards. In 2007 he moved to Campos Grand Prix, where he joined Giorgio Pantano.He scored five-point-scoring positions from 21 races and took his first victory at Valencia on his way to finishing 13th in the standings. He competed in several Le Mans Series races throughout the year, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Courage Compétition LMP2 car. The car completed 198 laps before retiring from the race, being classified in 38th. <mask> finished in third position with one win at Sepang International Circuit in the 2008 GP2 Asia Series season for Campos, behind champion Romain Grosjean and Sébastien Buemi. In the main series <mask> remained with the Campos team. He finished seventh in final standings, taking a win at the Valencia Street Circuit. He finished fifth, with a win in the Sepang sprint race, in the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season for Campos.He stayed with the team for 2009, now rebranded as Barwa Addax, and finished as runner-up to the dominant Nico Hülkenberg in the championship, winning twice at Istanbul Park and Valencia Street Circuit. Formula One

Renault (2010–2011)

2010

<mask> was linked to joining Sauber, Renault F1 and Campos for the  season. He was announced as a Renault driver on 31 January and thus became the first Russian driver in the Formula One World Championship. He was signed for a one-year deal, with an option for a further two. He was very close to signing for Campos but he felt Renault was the best option for him. He also mentioned that he had no major sponsors from Russia backing him just his dad and some of his friends. Some of his dad's friends included Vladimir Putin who drove the Renault F1 car and on 4 January 2011 revealed that Sergei Chemezov of Rostec and Leonid Mikhelson of Novatek would provide financial assistance to the Renault F1 team and its driver <mask>.Previously, on 1 March 2010, Carlos Ghosn met with Putin to announce that Renault F1 would have <mask> as its driver after <mask>'s manager, , had sent a letter to Putin asking Putin for assistance. <mask>, <mask>'s father, admitted that his best friend "Antiquary" or Ilya Traber, who is the leader of the Vyborg Russian Mafia and is a close friend of Putin, is a major sponsor of the Renault F1 team and its driver <mask> <mask>, too. <mask> stated that his goal is to start scoring points by mid-season. His teammate for his debut season with the new Renault R30 car was Robert Kubica. After qualifying seventeenth, <mask>'s first race ended prematurely when the team found his right-front suspension strut to be damaged, which the Russian suspected to have been caused by hitting a kerb too hard. He had been chasing Rubens Barrichello for tenth place and a World Championship point at the time of the incident. He finished his first race at the , and in doing so, scored his first F1 points, as he finished in seventh position.This race was also noted for his overtakes of Michael Schumacher and Mark Webber under heavy rain. After qualifying for the  he started ninth. But after a collision with Fernando Alonso in the closing laps, he suffered a puncture and was forced to make a pitstop. On returning to the track he set the fastest lap of the race, finishing fifteenth. In Hungary, <mask> qualified seventh, ahead of much respected teammate Robert Kubica. He finished in 5th place, his highest finish to date, while in Belgium, <mask> started in 23rd place, after failing to set a time in qualifying because of a first-session crash. He made up 14 places in changeable conditions to finish 9th, resulting in his third consecutive points finish.<mask> retired on the first lap of the  after colliding with Nico Hülkenberg, and crashed out of seventh place in the . He qualified tenth for the final round of the season in Abu Dhabi, ahead of Kubica who qualified eleventh. In the race, <mask> pitted under an early safety car period which moved him up the order when drivers ahead of him pitted. Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber both came out behind him and <mask> remained ahead of them until the end of the race, which stopped the title contenders' progress and enabled Sebastian Vettel to win the title. 2011

After the  season ended Renault team boss Éric Boullier said that there was a good chance of <mask> remaining with the team in . On 22 December 2010, he was retained by the team on a two-year deal. During the close season, the team were rebranded 'Lotus Renault GP' following a sponsorship deal with Lotus Cars.Teammate Robert Kubica suffered serious injuries in a rallying accident, with <mask> being joined by Nick Heidfeld for the start of the season. In the first race of the season in Australia, <mask> qualified sixth – a career-best – and secured his first Formula One podium, finishing in third place behind race-winner Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. In Malaysia, <mask> again ran in the points until he ran wide at a corner and left the circuit; attempting to rejoin, he hit a bump caused by a drainage gully which launched his car into the air and broke the steering column on landing. During qualifying for the , <mask>'s car suffered a technical problem after he had posted the fourth fastest time of Q2. As a result, he could not compete in Q3, leaving him to start tenth on the grid. He drove a consistent race and made good strategy calls and made his way to ninth after passing several cars after his last stop of a two stop strategy on Lap 37. An eighth place in Turkey added to his points tally before an eleventh-place finish in Spain.In Monaco, <mask> was taken to hospital after a crash, from sixth place, involving Adrian Sutil, Lewis Hamilton and Jaime Alguersuari. The crash halted the race for 20 minutes before it eventually restarted. He was released from hospital the same day, and returned to the cockpit with a fifth-place finish in Canada. <mask> had a difficult weekend in Valencia, where he finished 15th, having started from 11th on the grid. He finished 12th at the , as new restrictions on blown diffusers were introduced. In Germany, <mask> returned to Q3 for the first time since Canada before finishing ninth. A non-points finish in Hungary was followed by a ninth at the .<mask> qualified seventh at Monza, but while battling with Nico Rosberg on the first lap, the HRT of Vitantonio Liuzzi crashed into the side of both of them, eliminating all three cars. Renault suffered their worst performance of the season in Singapore, where <mask> qualified in 18th and finished 17th, before a ninth-place finish in Japan. At the , <mask> qualified eighth but retired after crashing into the back of Michael Schumacher on lap 16, causing a safety car. It became the third contact between the pair in 2011, when <mask> appeared to be too involved in trying to outbrake Alonso on the long straight before Turn 3. He incurred a five-place grid penalty for the incident at the inaugural , which meant that he had to start the race from sixteenth place. He finished the race eleventh, just in front of teammate Bruno Senna, and just missing out on the points-scoring positions. After finishing 13th in Abu Dhabi, <mask> launched an attack on his team in an interview on Russian television, citing lack of development, strategy mistakes, and criticisms of the drivers by team management.<mask> apologised for the outburst with an email to all Renault staff, with Éric Bouiller claiming the matter was closed. <mask> ended the season with a tenth-place finish in Brazil, but with Adrian Sutil finishing sixth in the race, Sutil moved ahead of <mask> for ninth place in the final championship standings. In December 2011, it was announced that Romain Grosjean would partner Kimi Räikkönen at the team in , leaving <mask> without a drive. Caterham (2012)

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On 17 February it was announced that <mask> would drive for the Caterham F1 Team in 2012, replacing Italian Jarno Trulli and partnering Heikki Kovalainen. <mask> qualified 20th for the , and was running 15th when a steering problem forced him to retire on lap 36. In Malaysia, <mask> drove a clean race to finish 16th, ahead of Kovalainen. It became apparent that the Caterham lacked the pace of midfield cars, but was evidently faster than Marussia and HRT.<mask> had another clean race at the  where he qualified in 20th, and made his way up through the race to finish 18th, again ahead of Kovalainen who lost two laps in the pits. At the , <mask> managed to qualify well over a second faster than the closest Marussia, cementing the Caterham's position as the fastest of the new teams for the third year running; he managed to finish the race in 16th place, equalling his best result in Malaysia earlier in the year. The  was the first time <mask> had qualified ahead of his teammate by just under two-tenths, however, he finished behind him for the first time in the season. The  was a bad run for <mask>, after qualifying nearly nine-tenths down from Kovalainen, he retired from the race on lap 15 with electrical failure, giving him his second retirement of the season. At the , <mask> managed to qualify in 19th, ahead of the Toro Rosso of Jean-Éric Vergne, but was unable to keep ahead at the start and went on to finish exactly where he started, albeit, one lap behind the leaders. After starting the race on the tenth row of the grid, <mask> ran as high as tenth at the  – a result that would have earned Caterham their first Formula One point – but was involved in a collision with Daniel Ricciardo and finished thirteenth. After initially being outpaced by Kovalainen, once <mask> had adjusted to the car he began to turn the tables on his Finnish teammate.He finished ahead of Kovalainen in four of the last five races of the season. In the final race of the season in Brazil, <mask> finished a season's best eleventh, making a crucial pass on Marussia's Charles Pic in the closing stages of the Grand Prix. The result meant Caterham moved back ahead of Marussia to claim 10th place in the Constructors' Championship, a position worth millions of pounds more in prize money. <mask> was not retained by Caterham as the team replaced both him and Kovalainen with Charles Pic and Giedo van der Garde for the 2013 season. DTM

<mask> signed with Mercedes to drive in the German touring car series DTM. But after a scoreless season and finishing last in the Drivers' Championship, he left the sport after one year. Endurance

Personal life
In 2007, he began residing in Valencia, Spain where he lived while he was a F1 driver.<mask> voiced a character based on himself in the Russian release of the 2011 Pixar film Cars 2. <mask>'s brother Sergei is a music composer graduated from Vienna's Conservatory. <mask>'s father Aleksandr was an influential businessman and municipal deputy in his home city of Vyborg before he was assassinated in 2020 – his death requiring <mask> to stand down from his role as a temporary steward at the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix. Racing record

Career summary

Complete GP2 Series results
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Complete GP2 Asia Series results
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Complete Formula One results
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† Driver did not finish, but was classified as he had completed 75% of the race distance. Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results
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<mask> (; born February 10, 1951, Astara, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) – is an Azerbaijani historian of philosophy, culture, sociologist, Orientalist, specialist in the field of history of ancient and medieval philosophy of the Middle East and Azerbaijan. He received a doctorate of sciences in philosophy (1989) and became a professor (1991). Biography
<mask>v was born on February 10, 1951 in Astara, Azerbaijan. His parents were secondary school teachers. His maternal grandfather was engaged in philanthropic activities, and his paternal grandfather was a connoisseur of the Qur’an and Islamic knowledge. His father was a public figure and was awarded an “Honored Teacher of the Azerbaijan SSR”. After finishing secondary school in 1968, he studied at the faculty of English and Azerbaijani languages at the Institute of Foreign Languages (now the Azerbaijan University of Languages - AUL).He graduated with honors from AUL in 1973. In the same year he was assigned as a teacher of the English language at AUL. He served in the Soviet army in 1974. He continued his studies at the Moscow State University postgraduate school (Aspirantura) for a PhD (Kandidat nauk) in philosophy (1975-1978). He defended his PhD thesis (Kandidat nauk) in 1979, titled “Ethical Thought of Medieval Azerbaijan and Critique of Western Orientalism”, at the philosophy faculty of Moscow State University after M. V. Lomonosov. In 1980-1982 he continued learning Arabic and Persian languages at the faculty of Oriental Studies at the Azerbaijan State University (now Baku State University). After completing his doctoral studies (doktorantura) in 1983-1986   for a doctor in sciences in philosophy at the philosophy faculty of Moscow State University after M. V. Lomonosov, he successfully defended therein his doctoral thesis in 1989, titled “Man in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy of Azerbaijan (in the context of Middle East)”.In 1990 he became a professor of Social Sciences. Scientific and pedagogical activity
Since the 1970s, Prof. Azimov has been combining the scientific research with his teaching activity at different universities. In 1979, Prof. Serafim Timofeevich Melyukhin, then the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Moscow State University, Corresponding (Associate) Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, recommended Azimov as a teacher of philosophy for foreign students at the Moscow University of Friendship of Peoples named after Patrice Lumumba (now Peoples' Friendship University of Russia). In 1980-1998s he worked as a teacher, Associate Professor, Professor, Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the Azerbaijan State Institute of Arts, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the Khazar University in Baku. From 1998 to the present, he is a professor of sociology, history and methodology of sociology at Baku State University. Since 2000s he has taught and researched at universities of United States and Europe as a visiting professor and senior research fellow. Key ideas and concepts
In his monograph “Azerbaijani thinkers about human nature” (Baku, 1986), <mask> Azimov considers Azerbaijani medieval philosophical thought in the context of the philosophy of the Middle East, and compares it with classical Greek, in particular, Hellenistic philosophy.For the first time in the Soviet and Western academic literature, he has undertaken a semiotic approach to the medieval Middle Eastern and Azerbaijani culture and philosophy. As a result, the idea of polyfunctionality of medieval Muslim cultural texts, and the classification of the languages of medieval cultures, including philosophy of Middle East and Azerbaijan, were theoretically grounded. Medieval Islamic philosophical thought was usually defined as materialistic pantheism in soviet academic literature. For an accurate terminological and conceptual definition of God and His relationship to the world and man in medieval Islamic philosophy, <mask> Azimov thought up a new term - “Theopantism”  (Greek words, “theos” – “God”, and  “panth”, “pass” - “all”,  which literally means that “God is all”). <mask> Azimov redefined the Islamic medieval philosophy as a “universal undivided all-unity in diversities”. In this connection, <mask> Azimov proposes two alternative conceptions for medieval Islamic philosophy - the “mythological-poetic panentism” and the “transcendental philosophy of the all-unity”, i.e. religious, mystical and philosophical-intellectualistic Theopantism.He substantiates that Middle Eastern, including Azerbaijani medieval religious, mystical-poetic and philosophical thoughts are adequate to these two forms. He also advocates the non-dialectical nature of binary oppositions or “dual code” in medieval Islamic thought, in which, according to Prof. Azimov, the medieval Islamic thinkers themselves have clearly distinguished between the logical basis of knowing and the immanent ontological causality of the material world. The meanings of binary oppositions in Islam refer to the highest order of traditional metaphysical Reality, devoid of material space-time dimensions. In the meantime, modern researchers, beginning with the pantheist Baruch Spinoza, identify, confuse, and finally mix the logical basis of the knowledge of the Superior Reality with ontological basis (causality) of the existence or formation of the material world. And thus they blur the line between transcendentalism of God, manifested in the worlds of noumena and phenomena, and the immanent ontological causality of material beings. <mask> Azimov also analyzed the modern Western concepts of Orientalism in colonial and post-colonial perspectives. The second monograph by <mask> Azimov “The problem of man in the religious and philosophical doctrines of Zoroastrianism and Islam” (Baku, 2009) continues his studies in eternally “old” and “new” questions about human existence - ideas related to the valuable world of man in the religious and philosophical doctrines of Zoroastrianism and Islam.The problems of religious and philosophical anthropology of Zoroastrianism and Islam in domestic and foreign academic literature have not been analytically studied before. <mask> Azimov has made the problem of man as the object of his studies in this monograph. In it, the author adheres to the concept of continuity//discontinuity of philosophical thoughts in the countries of the Middle East, including Azerbaijan, Central Eurasia and the Mediterranean, which is based on a contrasting examination of cultures and civilizations in the given region. In connection with this development, within the framework of a strict chronology of the era of antiquity, more precisely before the emergence of Islam in the East and Christianity in the West, it introduces the concept of a Central Eurasian geocultural continuum. <mask> Azimov emphasizes that Zoroastrian philosophical tradition is an integral part of the given cultural space and time. In the past it was a kind of universal language of the ancient Middle East and Azerbaijan. According to this conception, the direction of philosophical developments in the region changes due to the emergence of Christianity and Islam.For the first time, <mask> Azimov exposes the paradigms of the Zoroastrian and Islamic religious-philosophical anthropologies, picks up their convergences. The Zoroastrian and Islamic religious, mystical and philosophical anthropologies are considered not only as an aggregate of beliefs, cults, rituals, but also as definite historical forms of values-laden knowledge about human existence. K. Azimov argues that the sociocultural context, the ideological and worldview contents of Zoroastrianism and Islam, in which traditions play a significant role, set up a common base for philosophical paradigms on the issues of man. According to this conception, the state of things is intimately connected with the nature of the prophetic cultures, which represent not a type of free will, but an exemplar of knowing the totality of immutable truths, revealed by a true creator, i.e. God and his messengers. Reception and review
Soviet specialists spoke positively about the Zoroastrian and Islamic religious, mystical and philosophical anthropology, argued by <mask> Azimov. This is evidenced by the positive feedbacks, comments and recommendation letters written by well-known Western experts in the field .Modern Western experts gave both the positive and critical assessments. Michael Weinstein, a professor of sociology at the University of Hawaiʻi and Harvard University, wrote:

Anne Sheppard, Professor of Classical Greek Philosophy and Literature at the University of London, concludes:

Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan Alexander Knysh writes:

Professor of Philosophy of Islam and Central Asia at the University of Hawaiʻi Tamara Albertini writes:

Visiting professorships
Since the 2000s, Kazin Azimov was invited by a number of foreign universities as a visiting professor:
 2000-2001 - University of Harvard and University of Hawaiʻi (USA, 1 year). 2003 - Central European University, Budapest (7 months). 2004 - George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, (USA, 3 months). 2004 - British Academy, University of London and University of Liverpool (1 month). 2004 - Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (1 month). 2005 - Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany (4 months).2006 - Free University of Berlin, Germany (4 months). 2009 - Free University of Berlin, Germany (4 months). 2011 - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (7 months). 2017 - University of Malmö, Faculty of Culture and Society, Sweden (4 months). Selected Scientific Works

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 Problema cheloveka v religiozno-filosofskikh doktrinakh zoroastrianizma i islama. Baku 2003, 303 P. (The Problem of Man in the Religious and Philosophical Doctrines of Zoroastrianism and Islam. Baku, 2003, 303 P.) Available at the Harvard Widener Library.Azerbaydjanskie misliteli o cheloveke. Baku 1986, 207 P. (Medieval Azerbaijani Thinkers about the Human nature. Baku, 1986, 207 p. ). Available at the Harvard Widener Library. Tsennostniy mir cheloveka v religiozno-filosofskoy doktrine Zoroastrianizma. Baku 1991, 122 P. (The Valuable World of Man in the Religious and Philosophical Doctrines of Zoroastrianism. Baku "Society of Knowledge” 1991, 122 P.).Problema cheloveka i obshestva v drevney i srednevekovoy sosialnoy filosofii Azerbaydjana i Tsentralnoy Azii. Moskva “INION” Akademiya Nauk, 1987 (No. 25485), 350 P. (The Problem of Man in Ancient and Medieval Social Philosophy of Azerbaijan and Central Asia. Moscow,  deposited in Academy of Sciences. Moscow, 1987,  (No. 25485), 350 P.). Sources
 Professor.K.A.Azimov. Müstəqil Azərbaycanda Fəlsəfə və Filosoflar. Bakı 2007, S.234-236. (Philosophy and Philosophers in Sovereign Azerbaijan. Bakı, 2007, pp. 234–236). Avesta.Bakı 2017, S. 2-3. (Avest. Baku, 2017, pp. 2–3). <mask>, Kiazim. Problema cheloveka v religiozno-filosofskikh doktrinakh zoroastrianizma i islama. Baku 2003.Available at the Harvard Widener Library. <mask>, Kiazim. Azerbaydjanskie misliteli o cheloveke. Baku 1986.Available at the Harvard Widener Library. Online Lectures for students at Malmö University, Sweden, by Prof. Azimov:
 Part 1. Azerbaijani Multiculturalism Model. Part 2.Multiculturalism as a response to ethnic and linguistic diversities. Part 3. Multiculturalism and religious diversity in Azerbaijan. Социальные, этические и эстетические взгляды аль-Фараби. Под. ред. А. Сагадеев, М. Бурабаев, Г. Курмагалиева.М., Наука, 1984. ALexander Murinson. Turkey's Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan State identity and security in the Middle East and Caucasus. New York: Routledge 2010. Vitalie Nicon Marinuta. Evolution of Transdniestrian Conflict in the Republic of Moldova: Prospects for its Solution. Thesis.California, Monterey 2004. Ien B. Philosophy of the Caucasus and the Central Asia in the Soviet period. – In: Studies in Soviet Thought. Dordrecht (Holland), Boston (USA), 1982, vol. 23, No. 4, pp.285–299. References

External links
 The Caspian Studies Program (CSP) newsletter highlights CSP events, publications, and research activities. Meeting with Prof. Dr. <mask> Azimov, visiting professor at Berlin University . Prof. Dr, Wilfried Fuhrmann. Социальные, этические и эстетические взгляды аль-Фараби. Под. ред.А. Сагадеев, М. Бурабаев, Г. Курмагалиева. М., Наука, 1984.
 https://caucasusstudies.mah.se/2017/10/13/lecture-by-visiting-professor-kazim- azimzade/. http://socialogy.bsu.edu.az/en/content/professor_kaazimov_557. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o24Tewd4Aqc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=120&v=ZTbrAGVzyjM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP4_x5o-2lY. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/603674828.pdf.https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a424634.pdf/

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1951 births
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<mask> (born  February 17, 1952) is a Romanian writer, journalist, political analyst, and talk show host. Tănase was from November 2013 to October 2015 the president of TVR. Having briefly engaged in politics during the early 1990s, after the fall of the Communist regime, he has remained a leading figure of the Romanian civil society. <mask> founded 22 magazine in January 1990 and was its first editor-in-chief. A founding member of both the Group for Social Dialogue and the Civic Alliance, <mask> was the latter's vice-president between 1991 and 1993. In 1992, he founded Sfera Politicii; he is a managing editor of both, as well as a regular contributor to various Romanian newspapers. Over the years, he was the host of several talk shows (2 plus 1 and Orient express for Antena 1; Maşina de tocat for TVR 1; Zece şi un sfert, Zece fix, Tănase şi Dinescu, and 3 X 3 for Realitatea TV).Tănase is also vocal in the campaign to declassify all files kept in Securitate archives; in March 2002, he invited on his talk show a discussion his best friend, after it was revealed that the latter had been a Securitate informant who regularly furnished information on Tănase himself. Biography
Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the local university's Faculty of Philosophy in 1977. Before 1989, two out of his first three books were banned by the Communist regime censorship apparatus. Tănase became a public figure soon after the Romanian Revolution of 1989: in 1990, he was one of the main organizers of Piata Universitatii marathon protest, Golaniada, the protest movement against former members of the Romanian Communist Party who had gained power during the Revolution. After July 1991, Tănase sided with the group inside the Civic Alliance that called for the organization's transformation into a political party. As a member of the newly created Civic Alliance Party inside the opposition alliance (the Romanian Democratic Convention), he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the 1992–1996 legislature, representing the city of Bucharest. He was vice-president of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs (until April 1995) and member of the Special Committee for the Advancing a Legislative Proposal Regarding the Functioning of Political Parties.In 2006, he was chosen member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania by its president, Vladimir Tismăneanu. The Commission was founded by President Traian Băsescu in order to provide for an official and academic basis for condemning the Romanian communist regime. This took place on December 18, 2006, when the President presented the Commission's 660 pages report to Parliament, making Romania the first Eastern Bloc country to officially condemn its communist regime. Academia
In 1996, he was granted a Ph.D. in political sociology by the University of Bucharest. A visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Sociology Department in 1997, he currently teaches at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Political Sciences. Tănase was the recipient of several fellowships: he was Visiting Short-Term Fellow (1993) and Visiting Scholar (1994) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, granted a Visiting Short Term Collaborative research project at the University of California, Los Angeles (with Gail Kligman in 1996); a Fulbright scholar, post-Ph.D. grant, The New School for Social Research (1997); Visiting Short Term Scholar at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (1998). He has held conferences in Rome, Paris, Oslo, Vienna, Budapest, Washington, D.C., and also at prestigious American universities: the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, New York University, Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and The New School for Social Research.Works

Novels
 1982 - Luxul melancoliei ("The Luxury of Melancholy"); 2 nd ed. 1993
 1990 - Corpuri de iluminat ("Lighting Bodies"), written 1985-1987; 2 nd ed. 1998, 3 rd ed. 2004
 1995 - Playback; 2 nd ed. 2004
 2008 - Maestro
 2010 - "Dracul şi Mumia" ("The Old Nick and the Mummy)
 2011 - "Moartea unui dansator de tango" ("The death of the tango dancer"), translated into Italian and Spanish
 2012 - "Skepsis. Cartea cu Poveşti". 2017 - "Nocturna cu vampir Opus 1".("Nocturne with a Vampire opus no. 1")
 2018 - "Partida de vânătoare" ("The Hunting")

Studies and essays
 1993 - Şocuri şi crize ("Shocks and Crises"), collected political articles
 1995 - Ora oficială de iarnă ("Official Winter Time"), diary 1986–1990
 1996 - Sfidarea memoriei. Convorbiri cu Alexandru Paleologu ("Defying Memory. Conversations with Alexandru Paleologu")
 1996 - Revoluţia ca eşec. Elite şi societate ("Revolution as Failure. Elites and Society"), political studies
 1997 - Anatomia mistificării. Procesul Noica-Pillat ("Anatomy of Mystification.The Noica-Pillat Trial")
 1998 - LA vs NY. Jurnal american ("LA vs NY. American Diary")
 1998 - Elite şi societate. Guvernarea Gheorghiu-Dej (1948–1965) ("Elites and Society. The Gheorghiu-Dej Government")
 1999 - Miracolul revoluţiei. O istorie politică a căderii regimurilor comuniste ("The Miracle of Revolution. A Political History of the Fall of Communist Regimes")
 2002 - Acasă se vorbeşte în şoaptă, Dosar & jurnal din anii târzii ai dictaturii ("At Home There is Only Speaking in a Whisper: File and Diary Recording in the Late Years of the Romanian Dictatorship"); contains excerpts from his file at the political police Securitate
 2004 - Zei şi semizei la început de secol ("Gods and Demigods at the Dawn of the Century")
 2005 - Clienţii lu' tanti Varvara.Poveşti clandestine ( "Aunt Varvara's Clients.

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