FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS ON THE MALDIVES
Adrienn Jakab, Reuters Uralica
The Robertian Era was full of humanitarian tragedies caused by the non-stop wars that seemed to plague the world, but few were as marked as the Maldives debacle, where the Maldives Islands were "glassed" during the "Disorder War," specifically in late January of 2014, by members of the Robertian alliance Kashmir (not to be confused with the geographical region and later ethnic nation-state of the same name). This was condemned by numerous individual nations and even a few alliances (most notably CCC) for its reasoning (apparently the member of The Order of the Paradox who ruled the Maldives at the time said something that upset Kashmir) and for the results. Almost half the population of the Maldives was killed in spite of the best efforts of TOP to evacuate the archipelago, and the archipelago's capital city of Male was completely destroyed. Although radiation cleanup efforts post-war did away with most of the radioactive elements, the intense heat from the thermonuclear explosions that were close enough to the ground actually caused the atolls in question to melt. After Dispersion, the surviving leaders from those member nations were tried in the International Criminal Court and sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole (many Muslim nations and a few others, including Uralica and the New Confederacy suggested they should have gotten the death penalty) which they are serving out in an isolated maximum-security prison in the eastern Polynesian Union.
While the islands will never again be completely inhabitable, having been hit by that many nukes, good news concerning the Maldives did come up yesterday at a meeting of the New UN General Assembly, as regional NUNEP scientist Archana Mangal has stated that, at least from a structural point of view, many of the larger atolls are now inhabitable again. She did express some sadness, however, at the "irrecoverable state" of southeastern North Male Atoll, whose coral reef was completely destroyed, and the rock bed is a few metres underwater.
Per the Treaty of Chennai, the Dhivehi diaspora, most of which lives in Sindh, Dravidia, or Australia, gets first choice of habitation - it will remain a Trust Territory until this population feels it can function on its own, which will be determined by them holding a Strasbourg-compliant referendum on the matter. Dhivehi diaspora representative Saeed Mohamed Zakariyya has said this will take no less than ten years, and that if they vote on ending Trust Territory status they will either opt for independence or join Sindh, which annoyed both Bharat and Balochistan to the point where Jarkko Salomäki had to go off on one of his all-too-familiar rants to shut them up.
Sindh, on the other hand, volunteered resources to help the Dhivehi people reestablish their footing. Several Muslim-majority countries are rumoured to be interested in donating resources to help, and the Muslim community in some non-Muslim-majority countries (especially true of Uralica and Canada) have committed to buying building materials to send.
"I gotta admit, this is something I never thought would happen so quickly, if ever," Salomäki said in an interview after the meeting. "It's one of the rare feel-good moments from a NUNGA meeting!"
TVINKIZAVOD SURVIVES SYKTYV SCARE, LYAMBIR COMPLETES DEMOLITION DERBY AS TWO CUPS END
TvinkiZavod may be named after and sponsored by the subsidiary that produces sweet pastry treats, but within Uralica, believe it or not, the name is more synonymous with the football club than with Twinkies. That became even more obvious today as their reserve team claimed its first-ever Kuutonen championship by beating Syktyvkar club Syktyv Club Zelenets - founded and partially-owned by former Uralican president Jarkko Salomäki - in added extra time, 3-2. In nine Kuutonen seasons there has not yet been a repeat champion, so the Chaykovsky club is its ninth champion.
An aside - Since SiPS' reserves have never played in the Kuutonen (they were introduced into the system in 2012), you may be wondering who the most successful of those champions is, and three teams presently in the Kolmonen (three levels higher) currently fit that bill - Kolmonen A team S'äämklub Monča, who won in 2015, Kolmonen F team Kortkeros Town, who won in 2018, and most recently Kolmonen B team USK West Uralica, who beat USK Kirov in the final to win it in 2020. (Indeed, 2020's Kuutosenpokaali had a few university teams!)
It was a close match though, and at one point Syktyv Club actually had a 2-1 lead. It was eventually ended when Patrik Väänänen's corner kick in the 103rd minute found the well-placed noggin of defenceman Boris "Buster" Mironov, and the header bounced in off the crossbar. Video replay was needed to verify that the ball did indeed go in. It was not only his first goal of the season, but his first goal in any cup competition and only the fourth of his entire five-year career!
A little less surprising was FK Lyambir's somewhat anticlimactic 2-0 win over Spartak Yoshkar-Ola's reserves. It was a defensive masterclass by the team from Saransk's metro area (just to the north of the city) and it saw a frustrated Anatoliy Yermakov - his team's best scorer - take a straight red card against Lyambir's stifling defence! He expressed a high degree of remorse for his actions after the fact and admitted that it lessened his chances of playing Bolakliiga football next season, but his manager said (rightly according to a number of pundits) that it was more their defence that killed them in the end, and a couple of particular mistakes that led to the Mordovian team surging forward for goals. FK Lyambir had already punched their ticket to the Malenkov Cup yesterday, and await the winner of Monday's Kolmosenpokaali winner along with the Nelönen's top first-team Lokomotiv Kotlas. This is the first time in the Viitonen's history that a team from Mordovia has won the sixth tier's championship.
Onward to Monday! We have the finals for the Kolmosenpokaali and Nelösenpokaali, with Patschker SpVgg playing GFK Kirov in the former in Pazhga, and SiPS-Reservit taking on Amkar-II Perm in the clash of the reserve-team titans in Syktyvkar!
Adrienn Jakab, Reuters Uralica
The Robertian Era was full of humanitarian tragedies caused by the non-stop wars that seemed to plague the world, but few were as marked as the Maldives debacle, where the Maldives Islands were "glassed" during the "Disorder War," specifically in late January of 2014, by members of the Robertian alliance Kashmir (not to be confused with the geographical region and later ethnic nation-state of the same name). This was condemned by numerous individual nations and even a few alliances (most notably CCC) for its reasoning (apparently the member of The Order of the Paradox who ruled the Maldives at the time said something that upset Kashmir) and for the results. Almost half the population of the Maldives was killed in spite of the best efforts of TOP to evacuate the archipelago, and the archipelago's capital city of Male was completely destroyed. Although radiation cleanup efforts post-war did away with most of the radioactive elements, the intense heat from the thermonuclear explosions that were close enough to the ground actually caused the atolls in question to melt. After Dispersion, the surviving leaders from those member nations were tried in the International Criminal Court and sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole (many Muslim nations and a few others, including Uralica and the New Confederacy suggested they should have gotten the death penalty) which they are serving out in an isolated maximum-security prison in the eastern Polynesian Union.
While the islands will never again be completely inhabitable, having been hit by that many nukes, good news concerning the Maldives did come up yesterday at a meeting of the New UN General Assembly, as regional NUNEP scientist Archana Mangal has stated that, at least from a structural point of view, many of the larger atolls are now inhabitable again. She did express some sadness, however, at the "irrecoverable state" of southeastern North Male Atoll, whose coral reef was completely destroyed, and the rock bed is a few metres underwater.
Per the Treaty of Chennai, the Dhivehi diaspora, most of which lives in Sindh, Dravidia, or Australia, gets first choice of habitation - it will remain a Trust Territory until this population feels it can function on its own, which will be determined by them holding a Strasbourg-compliant referendum on the matter. Dhivehi diaspora representative Saeed Mohamed Zakariyya has said this will take no less than ten years, and that if they vote on ending Trust Territory status they will either opt for independence or join Sindh, which annoyed both Bharat and Balochistan to the point where Jarkko Salomäki had to go off on one of his all-too-familiar rants to shut them up.
Sindh, on the other hand, volunteered resources to help the Dhivehi people reestablish their footing. Several Muslim-majority countries are rumoured to be interested in donating resources to help, and the Muslim community in some non-Muslim-majority countries (especially true of Uralica and Canada) have committed to buying building materials to send.
"I gotta admit, this is something I never thought would happen so quickly, if ever," Salomäki said in an interview after the meeting. "It's one of the rare feel-good moments from a NUNGA meeting!"
TVINKIZAVOD SURVIVES SYKTYV SCARE, LYAMBIR COMPLETES DEMOLITION DERBY AS TWO CUPS END
TvinkiZavod may be named after and sponsored by the subsidiary that produces sweet pastry treats, but within Uralica, believe it or not, the name is more synonymous with the football club than with Twinkies. That became even more obvious today as their reserve team claimed its first-ever Kuutonen championship by beating Syktyvkar club Syktyv Club Zelenets - founded and partially-owned by former Uralican president Jarkko Salomäki - in added extra time, 3-2. In nine Kuutonen seasons there has not yet been a repeat champion, so the Chaykovsky club is its ninth champion.
An aside - Since SiPS' reserves have never played in the Kuutonen (they were introduced into the system in 2012), you may be wondering who the most successful of those champions is, and three teams presently in the Kolmonen (three levels higher) currently fit that bill - Kolmonen A team S'äämklub Monča, who won in 2015, Kolmonen F team Kortkeros Town, who won in 2018, and most recently Kolmonen B team USK West Uralica, who beat USK Kirov in the final to win it in 2020. (Indeed, 2020's Kuutosenpokaali had a few university teams!)
It was a close match though, and at one point Syktyv Club actually had a 2-1 lead. It was eventually ended when Patrik Väänänen's corner kick in the 103rd minute found the well-placed noggin of defenceman Boris "Buster" Mironov, and the header bounced in off the crossbar. Video replay was needed to verify that the ball did indeed go in. It was not only his first goal of the season, but his first goal in any cup competition and only the fourth of his entire five-year career!
A little less surprising was FK Lyambir's somewhat anticlimactic 2-0 win over Spartak Yoshkar-Ola's reserves. It was a defensive masterclass by the team from Saransk's metro area (just to the north of the city) and it saw a frustrated Anatoliy Yermakov - his team's best scorer - take a straight red card against Lyambir's stifling defence! He expressed a high degree of remorse for his actions after the fact and admitted that it lessened his chances of playing Bolakliiga football next season, but his manager said (rightly according to a number of pundits) that it was more their defence that killed them in the end, and a couple of particular mistakes that led to the Mordovian team surging forward for goals. FK Lyambir had already punched their ticket to the Malenkov Cup yesterday, and await the winner of Monday's Kolmosenpokaali winner along with the Nelönen's top first-team Lokomotiv Kotlas. This is the first time in the Viitonen's history that a team from Mordovia has won the sixth tier's championship.
Onward to Monday! We have the finals for the Kolmosenpokaali and Nelösenpokaali, with Patschker SpVgg playing GFK Kirov in the former in Pazhga, and SiPS-Reservit taking on Amkar-II Perm in the clash of the reserve-team titans in Syktyvkar!
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