Hartford Courant -- January 30, 2022

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VOLUME CLXXXVI CCOOUURRAANNTT..CCOOMM SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 2022
State hit with heavy snow, winds
More than a foot falls in some areas, bringing transportation to a halt
By Alex Putterman been cited for violating the state’s the evening. Snow accumulated
Hartford Courant ban on tractor trailer trucks during across the state, with Bridgeport
the storm. reporting 14 inches as of mid-af-
A winter storm dumped more Despite fear of mass power ternoon and areas of New London
than a foot of snow on parts of outages due to the storm, the state and Windham counties reporting
Connecticut on Saturday, blanket- experienced no major issues in as much as a foot and a half.
ing roads and halting transporta- that area, with Eversource report- A spokesperson for Hartford
tion across much of the state. ing only about 200 outages in total Mayor Luke Bronin said the city had
As of late Saturday afternoon, over the course of the day, Reiss recorded about 6 inches of snow
state police had received 731 calls said. as of mid-afternoon but had not
for service Saturday and responded The National Weather Service experienced any major accidents
to 66 accidents, four of which confirmed blizzard conditions or outages. Hartford announced
involved serious injuries, Max in parts of Eastern Connecti- Saturday its parking ban will end
Reiss, a spokesperson for Gov. Ned cut on Saturday morning, with Sidewalks are cleared in Mansfield on Saturday morning as a winter storm
Lamont, said. Three vehicles had strong wind gusts persisting into Turn to Snow, Page 3 swept through Connecticut. MARK MIRKO/HARTFORD COURANT
Hartford
“There’s this sense of impending doom here. There (Ukraine), there’s a feeling
that this is being externally heated. It’s a fire created from the outside.”
shelters
— Elena Koulidobrova, associate professor of linguistics at Central Connecticut State University
feeling
strained
Throughout region,
cold temperatures put
added stress on system
By Seamus McAvoy
Hartford Courant
Despite Connecticut boasting
one of the country’s most robust
systems to shelter people expe-
riencing homelessness, winter
weather and COVID-19 are
combining to pose challenges to
Hartford-area resources serving
the city’s most vulnerable people.
Though infection rates are
declining statewide, outbreaks
among staff and volunteers have
forced shelters to make do with
thin crews working extra shifts.
Meanwhile, the capital city’s
two warming centers — one for
individuals at 110 Washington St.
and one for families at 104 Vine
St. — are at capacity as tempera-
Katja Kolcio, an associate professor at Wesleyan University, has been working closely with civic nongovernmental organizations in tures and snow fall, according to
Ukraine since 2015. Since 2019, she has focused on the Donbas region. Kolcio works with a cross-section of the population, including Salvation Army Maj. Migdalia
humanitarians, war-relief workers, activists, soldiers, veterans and government officials. MARK MIRKO/HARTFORD COURANT Levenbein.
“This is a difficult time for
people to be outside, and it’s
Unease grows among
incredibly dangerous right now,
with the way the temperatures
have been,” Lavenbein said.
Connecticut is approaching
the end of its latest severe cold
Ukrainian-Americans weather protocol, a set of coordi-
nated actions and requirements
to help people access safe shelter.
Gov. Ned Lamont activated the
protocol on Jan. 14 in response
to the long-term chill, and later
extended it through Feb. 2.
Those in Connecticut watch anxiously as tensions rise on border The protocol requires over-
night warming centers — which
are relatively rare in Connecti-
By Don Stacom | Hartford Courant said he hears regularly from Connecticut cut — to stay open all day. Hart-
Ukrainian-Americans calling for stronger ford’s centers, which opened in
As reports of a military buildup along Ukraine’s eastern border support for their ancestral homeland. December and are operated by
“There is a sense of tension and anxi- the Salvation Army, were avail-
become increasingly foreboding, some Ukrainian-Ameri-
ety in the Ukrainian community that is able between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m.
cans in Connecticut say they are watching news of a poten- like the one here. I have been in very prior to Lamont’s order.
close contact with Ukrainian-Americans The extreme cold poses a
tial Russian invasion with deep concern.
in Connecticut. They’re a powerful voice safety risk to anyone with-
for freedom and independence for their out a warm place to sleep,
“I’m horrified by what [Russian Pres- Germany after World War II. family and friends in Ukraine,” Blumen- particularly for those who aren’t
ident Vladimir] Putin is trying to do. I’m The Ukrainian-American community thal said Friday.
hoping sanctions work — from every- in the state has not been holding public Some Ukrainian-American commu- Turn to Shelters, Page 3
thing I’ve read Russia’s economy is kind events so far. nity and religious leaders in Connecticut
of in shambles. Whether Putin is postur- But U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, declined to talk publicly Friday about the
ing, I don’t know,” said Maria Brandriff who two weeks ago was part of a Senate situation, but two university professors
of Hamden, who was born to Ukrainian delegation that went to Ukraine to meet Local athletes
parents in a displaced persons camp in with President Volodymyr Zelenksyy, Turn to Ukraine, Page 2 head to Beijing
The 2022 Winter Olympics
open Friday in Beijing, and
a number of U.S. athletes
with Connecticut ties will be
competing, including luger
Past clouds future high court fight Tucker West, of Ridgefield, and
Kristen Santos, a speedskater
from Fairfield. SPORTS, PAGE 5
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By Carl Hulse cratic votes is hardly far-fetched, not have that luxury after Biden confirmation of Justice Antonin Puzzles .........News, 11; Arts, 7
The New York Times given the bitter history of recent nominates the first Black woman Scalia, a leading judicial conserva- Success ..........Sunday CT, 4-5
confirmation fights for the high for the court sometime in the next tive, in 1986. Or even the 87-9 vote
WASHINGTON — It was a court. few weeks. Considering the toxic in 1994 for Justice Stephen Breyer,
testament to the breakdown of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, partisan atmosphere surround- a member of the court’s liberal
the Senate’s judicial confirma- the last member of the court ing contemporary Supreme Court wing, who announced Thursday
tion machinery that the first ques- confirmed by the Senate, did not fights, it is conceivable she could that he would step down after
tion posed by many this past week receive a single Democratic vote. make history not only because of nearly three decades.
regarding an upcoming Supreme But Republicans held a 53-47 her gender and race, but also as The decline in consensus
Court vacancy was whether advantage and could afford to the first person elevated to the Supreme Court confirmations
Democrats could install a new lose a colleague or two in ramming court by a tiebreaking vote of the
justice entirely on their own. through her nomination just vice president. Turn to Court, Page 2
2 Hartford Courant | Section 1 | Sunday, January 30, 2022
FROM PAGE ONE
Court American woman — will Murkowski is running for
deter Republicans from a reelection this year under a
from Page 1 scorched-earth campaign new ranked-choice voting
when their odds of winning system back home. Siding
has been precipitous, and are low. with Biden’s choice for the
the escalation of partisan But although Repub- court could help her attract
warfare has been sharp. licans are promising an the Democratic and inde-
Deep bitterness lingers open-minded review of the pendent voters she could
over the Democratic assault nominee, hard feelings over need to prevail under the
on Robert Bork in 1987; the the earlier confirmation new election rules in her
routine deployment of fili- clashes, most recently Kava- state.
busters against judicial naugh’s fight against sexual Sen. Lindsey Graham,
nominees of both parties assault allegations, are never R-S.C., a former chair of
beginning during the admin- far from the surface. the Judiciary Committee,
istration of President George “Whoever the president has also deferred to Demo-
W. Bush; the Republican nominates will be treated cratic presidents in the past
blockade of Judge Merrick fairly and with the dignity and voted for justices and
Garland in 2016; the tumul- and respect someone of lower-court judges they put
tuous confirmation of his or her caliber deserves, forward.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh something not afforded Even before the nomi-
in 2018; and the hardball to Justice Kavanaugh and nee is known, it is clear
Republican move to rush other Republican nomi- the outcome in the Senate
Barrett onto the court two nees of the past,” Sen. John is most likely to be highly
years later. Cornyn of Texas, a senior partisan, with the candidate
With the Supreme Court Republican member of the receiving a few Republican
deciding so many of the Judiciary Committee, said in votes at best — and perhaps
most polarizing issues of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s pending retirement will bring on a process to replace response to Breyer’s retire- none at all. For a coun-
the day — including abortion him. ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES ment. try torn apart by partisan-
rights and affirmative action Besides Collins, another ship and a court struggling
— neither side is willing to licans considered to be in the-teeth party-line vote evaluate the forthcoming Republican who will be the with its image and credibil-
cede much ground, and both play as potential backers of for whomever Biden puts nominee. focus of Democratic atten- ity, that is far from an ideal
display their battle scars. Biden’s pick. “If you look at forward. One of the first calls Democrats also hope the tion is Sen. Lisa Murkow- outcome.
“It is a sad commentary the incredibly strong vote by made by Sen. Dick Durbin, fact that Biden’s pick would ski of Alaska, a frequent “I really think it would
on the nomination process which Stephen Breyer was D-Ill., chair of the Judiciary replace a liberal justice supporter of judicial be harmful to the country
that it has so disintegrated confirmed, you just don’t see Committee, was to Collins, and not tip the ideological nominees of Democratic to have a repeat of what we
over the years,” said Sen. it nowadays.” promising her whatever balance of the firmly conser- presidents and the only saw with the last two nomi-
Susan Collins of Maine, one Democrats would dearly material and assistance he vative court — and the fact Republican to oppose Kava- nees being so narrowly
of the handful of Repub- like to avoid a skin-of- could provide to help her that she will be an African naugh. confirmed,” Collins said.
Ukraine impending doom here” on the power grid and the Archbishop Leonard P. defenders of Ukraine. supply of semiconduc-
that her friends in Ukraine internet along with military Blair presided at a Holy Blumenthal and Sen. Chris tors, disconnect his finan-
from Page 1 don’t share, she said. “There, incursions. Hour for Peace in Ukraine Murphy were part of a cial system from the world
there’s a feeling that this is “That can really desta- on Tuesday afternoon at bipartisan group of sena- framework.”
with connections to Ukraine being externally heated. bilize social systems. They the St. Mary Parish in New tors that traveled to Ukraine Brandriff, who still has
said they are following It’s a fire created from the feel that’s a danger as real Haven, which was attended to demonstrate solidar- relatives living in Ukraine,
developments regularly. outside.” as a military invasion,” said by Bishop Paul Chomnycky ity. They have been press- said she’s trying to stay
“I spoke with several Koulidobrova said her Kolcio, the principal Amer- of the Ukrainian Catholic ing President Joe Biden’s optimistic that sanctions
people in Ukraine today friends in Ukraine are less ican researcher with Vitality Eparchy of Stamford. administration to speed the would succeed. She said
to check the pulse on this. alarmed now than imme- Project Donbas, a collabo- But last week, the sale of more lethal weap- she’s concerned that some
My read is that folks are diately after the Russian ration between Wesleyan websites and online bulle- ons to Ukraine, including Ukrainian-Americans aren’t
strained, but they are not annexation of Crimea in and the NGO Develop- tins for several Ukrainian Stinger and Javelin missiles. more troubled by develop-
entirely surprised, and 2014. ment Foundation that seeks churches in Connecticut “Those are the kinds of ments.
they’re not particularly “There isn’t a sense that to offset the psychologi- made no reference to the weapons the Ukrainians “Some Ukrainians have
scared,” said Elena Koulido- people are stockpiling now. cal effects of exhaustion, situation. need to defend themselves. swallowed the right-wing
brova, an associate profes- But with that said, one depression, and social isola- Pastors at New Britain Ukraine has been fighting rhetoric. It just amazes
sor in linguistics at Central couple disclosed to me that tion in communities in east- and Stamford churches a long eight-year struggle me,” she said. “My parents
Connecticut State Univer- they’ve had space under- ern Ukraine. did not return calls, and a against Russian military escaped Ukraine during
sity. neath their garage floor “I was just on the phone man identifying himself action,” he said. World War II because
Koulidobrova was born since 2014 — a cellar with this morning with a good as the pastor at St. Mary “I’ve come back from my father was an outspo-
in Ukraine before it gained sleeping bags and a stock- number of people who were in Colchester declined to Ukraine with stronger ken patriot — he had been
independence from the pile,” she said. trying to figure out how to comment. Richard Wanik, and deeper support than imprisoned more than
Soviet Union; her heritage Katja Kolcio, an associ- survive and live their lives president of the Ukrainian ever for Ukrainians and once, both under Poles and
is Russian, and she does not ate professor at Wesleyan with this impending inva- Home in Hartford, said he their homeland — people Russians. I grew up with
consider herself Ukrainian. University and director of sion. They say, ‘We have to wasn’t comfortable speaking who feel threatened so this horror of communism.
But she said she would side the Allbritton Center, said continue to live.’ The teach- of a political issue. deeply and dangerously. I When I see an authoritar-
with Ukraine in its conflict her contacts in Ukraine ers there are teaching how Blumenthal, however, strongly believe we should ian like Putin just decide to
with Russia. fear a so-called hybrid war to talk with children with- said the Ukrainian-Amer- have sanctions right now — grab what he wants to grab,
“There’s this sense of — involving cyber attacks out panic.” icans he knows are strong export controls, end Putin’s it’s unconscionable.”
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FROM PAGE ONE
Trucker convoy protests
Canada COVID-19 rules
Associated Press Terry Fox, a national hero The prime minister’s
who lost a leg to bone cancer itinerary for the day usually
OTTAWA, Ontario — as a youngster, then set off in says he is in Ottawa if he’s at
Thousands of protesters 1980 on a fundraising trek home, but on Saturday it said
gathered in Canada’s capi- across Canada, was draped “National Capital Region”
tal on Saturday to protest with a upside down Cana- amid a report he’s been
vaccine mandates, masks dian flag with a sign that said moved to an undisclosed
and lockdowns. “mandate freedom.” location.
The sounds of honking David Santos said he came Some are, in part, protest-
horns echoed around Otta- from Montreal because ing a new rule that took
wa’s downtown core. A he believes the vaccine effect Jan. 15 requiring
convoy of trucks and cars mandates are not health-re- truckers entering Canada
parked around Parliament lated but what he calls a be fully immunized against
Hill with some parking on “control thing” by govern- the coronavirus. The United
the grounds of the National ments. States has imposed the same
War Memorial before police The convoy of truckers requirement on truckers
asked them to move. and others prompted police entering that country.
“Parking on this sacred to prepare for the possibil- The Canadian Truck-
ground that includes the ity of violence and warn resi- ing Alliance said a great
Tomb of the Unknown dents to avoid downtown. number of the protesters Supporters arrive Saturday at Parliament Hill for the Freedom Truck Convoy to protest against
Soldier was a sign of A top Parliament security have no connection to the COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions in Ottawa, Canada. LARS HAGBERG/GETTY-AFP
complete disrespect,” Ottawa official advised lawmak- trucking industry, adding
Mayor Jim Watson tweeted. ers to lock their doors amid they have a separate agenda and vaccine mandates and “Today the threat against Pappin, an unvaccinated man
Some compared COVID- reports their private homes to push. The alliance said in others called for the removal democracy isn’t only happen- who came from just outside
19 restrictions to fascism and may be targeted. a statement that the indus- of Trudeau. ing in America,” former U.S. Ottawa. “I can’t go on a holi-
made use of Nazi symbols on Trudeau has said Canadi- try must adapt and comply Some opposition Conser- Ambassador to Canada Bruce day. I can’t go to a restaurant,
upside down Canadian flags. ans are not represented by with this mandate, noting vative lawmakers served Heyman tweeted. I can’t go bowling. I can’t go
One truck carried a Confed- this “very troubling, small the vast majority of drivers coffee to the protesters and The Parliamentary to a movie. You know, these
erate flag while many carried but very vocal minority of have done so. the party leader met with Protective Service expects as are things that it’s just gotten
expletive-laden signs target- Canadians who are lashing The organizers of the some truckers. The protest many as 10,000 protesters as out of control.”
ing Canadian Prime Minister out at science, at govern- protest have called for the has also attracted support part of a weekend-long rally.
Justin Trudeau. ment, at society, at mandates forceful elimination of all from Donald Trump Jr. and “I’m locked into my own The New York Times
The statue of the late and public health advice. COVID-19 restrictions some Fox News personalities. country right now,” said Tom contributed.
Shelters
sion of affordable housing.
from Page 1 “Clearly, what we know
in the state of Connecticut is
actively seeking shelter or that ending homelessness is
other resources. not insurmountable,” Klein
There could be myriad said. “With the appropri-
reasons for their hesitancy, ate amount of resources, we
said Marilyn Rossetti, can end homelessness, as we
a Hartford city council have with ending veteran
member and chief execu- homelessness.”
tive of Open Hearth, a men’s Kate Shafer, development
shelter and resource center. director of Hands on Hart-
Past trauma may make it ford said the local service
difficult to deal with the organization recently formed
large crowds and cramped a “homeless outreach team”
conditions characteristic to connect people in need
of some shelter settings, for with shelter or resources.
example. The team goes out into the
“So then all of a sudden, area on evenings and week-
when it’s really cold, they ends, Shafer said, and looks
have nowhere to go,” for people who appear to be
Rossetti said. living outdoors during times
of severe cold.
How many people are ex- “That’s especially chal-
periencing homelessness? lenging, to see folks who are
Experts say it’s difficult living outdoors when it gets
to track exactly how many really, really cold,” Shafer
people are experiencing said. “It’s rough. It’s rough
homelessness, or who have out there.”
tenuous access to shelter. Shafer said the outreach
Some may be living team was created thanks to,
outdoors during the and is sustained by, fund-
warmer seasons. Others ing from the CARES Act.
may lack stable shelter, but Hoping to be warmed by sunlight shining through wind-chilled single-digit temperatures, a 35-year-old homeless woman rests Prior to the influx of federal
are temporarily borrowing under a blanket in downtown Hartford on Jan. 11. The woman said she has been homeless since losing her apartment three dollars, Hands on Hartford
a bed or couch from a friend months ago. The cold has added stress to homeless shelters already strained by COVID-19. “Sometimes,” she said, “it’s better off relied on a shaky stream of
or family member. on the streets.” MARK MIRKO/HARTFORD COURANT private donations to support
There were 2,594 people its meal program and other
experiencing homelessness ness for the first time, and system is designed to help is necessary, staff in the but usually runs near its services. “It’s very tenuous,
in Connecticut during the became homeless within the everyone who calls” said CAN network work to find 53-bed limit. and it was always under-
2021 point-in-time count, last 12 months. Evonne Klein, chief exec- available beds within the funded,” Shafer said.
essentially a hand count to “Well over 30 to 40%” utive of the Connecticut shelter system. “The most Short on shelter beds, The CARES Act dollars are
measure how many people of the people experiencing Coalition to End Homeless- important part of the CAN and on funds set to expire in September.
are living outdoors or in shel- homelessness in Hartford ness and former state hous- network, and why it’s been When Hartford’s warm- The $1.9 trillion Ameri-
ters during a single night in are from places other than ing commissioner. so successful, is how inte- ing centers fill up, the state’s can Rescue Plan includes
January. The 2022 count the city originally, Rossetti Under the Coordinated grated all of our partners severe cold weather proto- $5 billion for emergency
took place Jan. 25, and results noted. Access Network, anyone in are,” Pavone said. col requires hotel beds to be housing vouchers, and
are currently being compiled. “People come here, need of shelter can dial 2-1-1. Emergency shelters available for overflow emer- another $5 billion for afford-
At least 454 individuals because if you’re in a A 2-1-1 worker assesses the are usually preferred over gency housing. able housing. Shafer hopes
were in need of housing in Wethersfield, a Windsor, a individual’s situation, and warming centers, and those Shelter workers said they money can be made avail-
Greater Hartford last week, Bloomfield, this is where the first tries to seek alterna- beds fill up first. Rossetti said didn’t know exactly how able to continue supporting
according to data from social services are.” tives to entry into the shel- Open Hearth is “always” many people were in over- outreach, too.
the Coordinated Access ter system. The individual at capacity — and COVID- flow housing, but said the “This is front line
Network (CAN). Four How does Connecticut’s may first be connected with 19 safety measures have number of people experi- work that really needs
names were added from the homelessness response a shelter diversion worker, reduced shelter capacity to encing homelessness far to be funded, so we are
previous seven days. system work? according to Sarah Pavone, 100 beds from 125. exceeds the number of really hoping that’s what
It’s a slight decrease from During the severe cold director of strategy for Jour- Jane Banks, executive spaces shelters can provide. happens,” she said.
December, when at least 478 weather protocol, the state’s ney Home, the backbone director of Hartford’s South “We don’t have enough
were in need. Eighty percent response system kicks into agency for the Greater Hart- Park Inn, said the shelter resources right now,” Klein Seamus McAvoy may be
of those individuals were higher gear: Anyone who ford CAN. just found permanent hous- said. The “ultimate solu- reached at smcavoy@
experiencing homeless- needs a bed, gets one. “Our If emergency housing ing for a handful of people, tion,” she said, is the expan- courant.com.
Snow ated Saturday, transpor-
tation across the state
from Page 1 largely came to a pause. All
flights in and out of Bradley
Sunday morning, when the Airport were canceled, and
storm is expected to have almost all commuter rail
passed. service and bus service was
In Manchester, Town paused.
Manager Steve Stephanou Additionally, numerous
said the town had seen 9-12 Connecticut towns, includ-
inches but that the snow has ing most in the Hartford
been relatively light, making area, imposed parking bans
for easier plowing. West in an attempt to keep roads
Hartford Town Manager clear for plows.
Matt Hart said things had Early Saturday, Lamont
been relatively quiet Satur- implemented a ban on trac-
day, with no major accidents tor trailer trucks on state
or outages. highways. The ban was
East Hartford Mayor lifted at 11:59 p.m. Saturday.
Mike Walsh also said the Commuter rail and
town had seen no major bus service is expected to
issues. resume Sunday, Mark Rolfe,
As of late afternoon Satur- Connecticut’s deputy trans-
day, much of Connecticut portation commissioner,
appeared to have expe- said.
rienced the worst of the Saturday’s snowstorm
storm. was expected to bring bliz-
Gary Lessor, chief mete- zard conditions and 1-2
orologist at Western feet of snow on parts of
Connecticut State Univer- Connecticut, with a partic-
sity’s weather center, said ularly severe impact in the
Sunday is expected to be a eastern part of the state.
“beautiful day,” with highs Meteorologists on Friday
in the mid-20s but “plenty predicted the storm could be
of sunshine.” Tempera- Connecticut’s biggest since
tures are expected to rise 2017.
further in the coming days,
he said, reaching the 40s on Alex Putterman can be A crew clears a stairwell and crosswalk of snow Saturday in Mansfield as a powerful nor’easter swept up the East Coast,
Wednesday. reached at aputterman@ threatening to bury parts of 10 states under deep snow accompanied by coastal flooding and high winds. Parts of Connecticut
As the storm acceler- courant.com. were hit with more than a foot of snow. MARK MIRKO/HARTFORD COURANT
4 Hartford Courant | Section 1 | Sunday, January 30, 2022
Russia backs off Irish war games
Naval exercises to rized to talk publicly.
Lavrov has said the U.S.
move from Ireland
suggested the two sides
economic zone could talk about limits on
the deployment of interme-
By Jim Heintz diate-range missiles, restric-
Associated Press tions on military drills and
rules to prevent accidents
MOSCOW — Russia says between warships and
it will relocate naval exer- aircraft.
cises off the coast of Ireland He said the Russians
after Dublin raised concerns proposed discussing those
about them amid a tense issues several years ago, but
dispute with the West over Washington and its allies
expansion of the NATO alli- never took them up on it
ance and fears that Russia is until now.
preparing to invade Ukraine. He also said those issues
The Feb. 3-8 exercises are secondary to Russia’s
were to be held 150 miles main concerns about NATO.
off southwestern Ireland — He said international
in international waters but agreements say the security
within Ireland’s exclusive of one nation must not come
economic zone. at the expense of others,
Irish Foreign Minister and said he would send
Simon Coveney this week letters to Western counter-
objected to the war games, parts asking them to explain
saying “This isn’t a time to their failure to respect that
increase military activity pledge.
and tension in the context Washington has warned
of what’s happening with Moscow of devastating sanc-
and in Ukraine. The fact that tions if it invades Ukraine,
they are choosing to do it on including penalties target-
the western borders, if you ing top Russian officials and
like, of the EU, off the Irish key economic sectors.
coast, is something that Lavrov said Moscow had
in our view is simply not Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer units of the Armed Forces, train Saturday near Kyiv, Ukraine. EFREM LUKATSKY/AP warned Washington that
welcome.” sanctions would amount to
Russia’s embassy in back its forces from Eastern that Putin could use any Saturday that residents people in the territories. a complete severing of ties.
Ireland on Saturday posted Europe. portion of his force to seize of the regions controlled Vodolatsky said the recruits NATO, meanwhile, said it
a letter on Facebook from The U.S. and NATO Ukrainian cities and “signif- since 2014 by Russia- would serve in Russia — but was bolstering its deterrence
Ambassador Yuriy Filatov formally rejected those icant territories” or to carry backed rebels fear assaults that leaves open the option in the Baltic Sea region.
saying the exercises would demands last week, although out “coercive acts or provoc- by Ukrainian forces and that they could join any Russia has launched mili-
be relocated outside of the Washington outlined areas ative political acts” like the that those who hold future invasion force. tary drills involving motor-
Irish economic zone “with where discussions are possi- recognition of breakaway Russian passports would be A senior official in Presi- ized infantry and artillery
the aim not to hinder fishing ble, offering some hope that territories inside Ukraine. welcomed in the military. dent Joe Biden’s administra- units in southwestern
activities.” there could be a way to avoid Two territories in eastern “If Russian citizens resid- tion said the U.S. welcomed Russia, warplanes in Kalin-
The decision was a rare war. Ukraine have been under ing in the (territories) want Lavrov’s comments that ingrad on the Baltic Sea, and
concession amid the esca- Russian President Vlad- the control of Russia-backed to join the Russian Armed Russia does not want war, dozens of warships in the
lating tensions surrounding imir Putin has made no rebels since 2014. Forces, the Rostov regional “but this needs to be backed Black Sea and the Arctic.
Russia’s massing of an esti- public remarks about the A Russian lawmaker is military commissariat will up with action. We need to Russian troops are also
mated 100,000 troops near Western response. Foreign encouraging residents of register and draft them,” see Russia pulling some of in Belarus for joint drills,
the border with Ukraine Minister Sergey Lavrov said those areas of Ukraine to Vodolatsky, deputy chair- the troops that they have raising Western fears that
and its demands that NATO it leaves little chance for join the Russian army, a sign man of parliament commit- deployed away from the Moscow could stage an
promise never to allow reaching agreement, though that Moscow is continu- tee on relations with Ukrainian border and taking attack on Ukraine from the
Ukraine to join the alli- he also says Russia does not ing to try to integrate those neighbors, told the state other de-escalatory steps.” north from Belarus. The
ance, stop the deployment want war. territories as much as possi- news agency Tass. The official spoke on Ukrainian capital is less than
of NATO weapons near U.S. Defense Secretary ble. Russia has granted pass- condition of anonymity 50 miles from the border
Russian borders and roll Lloyd Austin said Friday Viktor Vodolatsky said ports to more than 500,000 because he was not autho- with Belarus.
Storm lashes East Coast
with high winds, snow
Nor’easter expected according to FlightAware. commuting.
More than 4,500 flights Parts of 10 states were
to move into Canada
were canceled across the under blizzard warnings:
by Sunday morning U.S. Amtrak canceled all Maine, New Hampshire,
its high-speed Acela trains Massachusetts, Rhode
By Mark Pratt between Boston and Wash- Island, Connecticut, New
and Mike Catalini ington and canceled or York and New Jersey, along
Associated Press limited other service. with much of the Delmarva
Across the region, resi- Peninsula in Delaware,
BOSTON — A storm with dents hunkered down to Maryland and Virginia.
wind gusts near hurricane avoid whiteout conditions Officials in all those states
force lashed the North- and stinging snow hurled warned people to stay off
east on Saturday, dropping by fierce winds. Business the roads.
heavy snow, causing coastal closed or opened late. Rhode Island, all of which
flooding and threatening Video on social media was under a blizzard warn-
widespread power outages showed wind and waves ing, banned all nonemer-
while forecasters warned battering North Weymouth, gency road travel.
conditions would worsen south of Boston, flooding In West Hartford,
and then be followed by streets with a slurry of frigid Connecticut, a trac-
bitter cold. water. Other video showed tor-trailer jackknifed
The nor’easter thrashed a street underwater on on Interstate 84, closing
parts of 10 states and some Nantucket and waves crash- several lanes. Massachusetts
major population centers, ing against the windows of a banned heavy trucks from
including Philadelphia, New building in Plymouth. interstate highways.
York and Boston. By midday, In the seaside town of New York Gov. Kathy A man carefully walks down snow-covered subway stairs Saturday in the Bushwick section of
more than 18 inches of snow Newburyport, near the New Hochul advised people the Brooklyn borough of New York City during a winter storm. BRITTAINY NEWMAN/AP
had fallen on parts of New Hampshire border, officials to stay home as the storm
Jersey’s shore and eastern encouraged residents along lingered longer than they had to help motorists not hesitate to get resources Boston home on Saturday
Long Island. the shore to move to higher expected, and she warned stuck in the snow. New York at the ready. for a free snow-shoveling
Areas closest to the Atlan- ground. of below-zero windchills City expected up to a foot of Ocean City, Maryland, clinic.
tic coast bore the brunt. Over 100,000 homes and after it passes. The state had snow by midafternoon. recorded at least a foot of “I will provide the drive-
Boston, in the nor’easter’s businesses lost power in declared a state of emer- In Philadelphia, where 6 snow. Maryland State Police way and multiple walkways
crosshairs, could get more Massachusetts, with fail- gency Friday evening. inches fell by early Saturday, tweeted that troopers had to ensure your training is
than 2 feet of snow. Winds ures mounting. No other “This is a very serious few drivers ventured onto received more than 670 calls conducted in the most life-
gusted at 70 mph or higher at states reported widespread storm, very serious. We’ve streets covered in knee-high for service and responded like situation,” he said.
several spots in Massachu- outages. been preparing for this. drifts. to over 90 crashes by Washington and Balti-
setts, including Nantucket The storm had two saving This could be life-threaten- Delaware allowed only midmorning. more got some snow but
Island and Provincetown, graces: Dry snow less capa- ing,” Hochul said. “It’s high essential personnel to drive Hardy New Englanders were largely spared. The
at the tip of Cape Cod. Most ble of snapping trees and winds, heavy snow, bliz- in two of its three counties. took the storm in stride. worst of the nor’easter was
flights into and out of the tearing down power lines, zard conditions — all the Virginia, where a bliz- Dave McGillivray, race expected to blow by Sunday
airports serving New York, and its timing on a week- elements of a classic nor’eas- zard this month stranded director for the Boston morning into Canada, where
Boston and Philadelphia end, when schools were ter.” hundreds of motorists for Marathon, jokingly invited several provinces were
were canceled Saturday, closed and few people were Police on Long Island said hours on Interstate 95, did the public to his suburban under warnings.
Italy’s 80-year-old president wins vote to stay
By Frances D’emilio lawmakers in Parliament for his move from the presi- pean Central Bank who is
Associated Press and regional delegates. dential palace atop the Quir- leading a pandemic unity
That move followed inal Hill. government, telephoned
ROME — Italian Presi- days of fruitless efforts by But after a seventh round party leaders to encourage
dent Sergio Mattarella has political leaders to reach a of balloting in six days in the lobbying.
been elected to a second consensus on a candidate. Parliament by lawmakers Draghi had indicated he
seven-year term as the coun- Mattarella won in the and special regional repre- would be willing to move
try’s head of state, ending eighth round of voting when sentatives failed to yield any into the president’s role,
days of political impasse as he clinched the minimum of consensus on a presidential but some feared that would
party leaders struggled to 505 votes needed from the candidate, party whips and prompt an early election.
pick his successor. 1,009 Grand Electors. regional governors visited Democratic Party chief
Earlier on Saturday, In the run-up to the pres- Mattarella at the presiden- Enrico Letta, whose Senate
lawmakers entreated idential election this week, tial palace to solicit his will- whip was among lawmak-
Mattarella, 80, who had Mattarella repeatedly said ingness to serve again. ers meeting Saturday with
President Sergio Mattarella, center, confers with Senate said he didn’t want a second he didn’t want another stint. Rai state TV said Premier Mattarella, indicated that
President Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, left, and Chamber mandate, to change his mind He even rented an apart- Mario Draghi, a non-parti- Italy’s head of state had
of Deputies chief Roberto Fico. QUIRINALE PRESS OFFICE/AFP and agree to reelection by ment in Rome to prepare san former chief of the Euro- agreed to serve again.
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WORLD & NATION
FBI accuses American
woman of prominent
role in IS terror group
From news services Witnesses said that
Fluke-Ekren taught classes
The FBI has arrested for members of the battal-
an American woman who ion, and on one occasion,
federal prosecutors said a young child of hers was
had risen through the ranks seen holding an assault rifle.
of the Islamic State group One witness said that more
in Syria to become a battal- than 100 women and girls
ion commander, training had received training from
women and children to use Fluke-Ekren.
assault rifles and suicide A witness also said that
belts, the Justice Depart- Fluke-Ekren claimed to
ment disclosed Saturday. have tried to send a message
The woman, Allison to her family with the goal
Fluke-Ekren, 42, a former of tricking them into believ-
teacher from Kansas, was ing she was dead so the U.S.
charged with provid- government would stop
ing material support to trying to find her.
a terrorist organization. She told the witness that
The circumstances of her she never wanted to return
capture in Syria were not to the United States and
immediately known, but the wanted to die a martyr in
FBI flew her to Virginia on Syria.
Friday to face prosecution.
Investigators said Fluke- UN experts’ slaying: A Funeral farewell: The coffin of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh is carried to the street Saturday during his funeral
Ekren was smuggled into military court in Congo in Hue, Vietnam. The service was held a week after the renowned Zen master died at the age of 95. Nhat Hanh was globally
Syria in 2012 from Libya. has condemned about 50 recognized for spreading the practice of mindfulness and socially engaged Buddhism. THANH VO/AP
She traveled to the country, people to death nearly five
according to one witness, years after the murders of
because she wanted to wage United Nations investigators embarked on the field visit Wednesday, and he told phones at the Pierce Fire strong bipartisan support
“violent jihad,” Raj Parekh, a Michael Sharp and Zaida from Kananga, the provin- an agent that he had been Department office on Satur- in Congress for Taiwan,
federal prosecutor, wrote in Catalan in central Congo’s cial capital of Kasai Central, instructed by God to visit day. A woman answering the according to the aide.
a detention memo that was Kasai region. toward the locality of Biden and to lop off “the phone at the Pierce County Vice President Kamala
made public Saturday. The President of the Kasai Bunkonde. head of the serpent in the Sheriff’s Office declined Harris greeted Lai at the
According to a crimi- Occidental Military Court, The two U.N. experts heart of the nation,” accord- comment except to say inauguration of Honduran
nal complaint filed in 2019, Brig. Gen. Jean-Paulin were investigating the ing to an affidavit written by more information would be President Xiomara Castro
a witness told the FBI Ntshayokolo said Saturday violence in Kasai on behalf Lisa Koerber, an agent with released later. on Thursday, a fleeting
that Fluke-Ekren and her that of the 54 defendants, of the U.N. Security Coun- the Secret Service. Pierce Public Schools encounter that risks increas-
husband brought $15,000 one officer is sentenced to cil. Their bodies were then Merryman said that he posted on its Facebook page ing tension between Wash-
to Syria to buy weapons. 10 years for violating orders found in a shallow grave two was not referring to Biden that it was opening the high ington and Beijing.
Her husband, the witness and two others were acquit- weeks later. and that he was not making a school Saturday to students Lai, whose country
said, eventually rose to be ted. threat against the president, seeking support due after is regarded by China as
the commander of all snip- Those sentenced to death Threat on Biden: A Kansas the affidavit said. “the loss of Pierce High a breakaway province,
ers in Syria in 2014. He will serve out life sentences, man who told a Secret It was not clear if Merry- and Pierce Elementary described Pelosi as a friend
later died in an airstrike as Congo has observed a Service agent that he was man had a lawyer, and he did students.” of Taiwan and a champion
while conducting a terror- moratorium on the death “coming for” President Joe not respond to messages for of human rights.
ist attack on behalf of the penalty since 2003. Biden was charged Friday comment Saturday. Taiwan relations: Taiwan- China regularly protests
Islamic State group, inves- Sharp, who was Ameri- with making threats against ese Vice President William any interactions by foreign
tigators said. Fluke-Ekren can, and Catalan, of Sweden, the president, according to Nebraska fire: Two school- Lai held a video call with officials with those from
met her husband in the were assassinated on March federal court documents. age children are among House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Taipei. Lai and Harris chat-
United States, according to 12, 2017 in the Kasai Central The man, Scott Ryan those killed after fire broke — his second meeting with a ted for about 30 seconds
court documents. region while on a field visit Merryman, made the out early Saturday at a home senior U.S. politician in two according to Kolas Yotaka,
According to the deten- with representatives of threats over three days, in rural northern Nebraska. days — on topics including spokesperson for the
tion memo, the mayor of Kamwina Nsapu, a mili- starting Tuesday, when he The Norfolk Daily News human rights in China. Taiwanese president’s office,
the Syrian city of Raqqa, the tia active in Kasai whose called police in Indepen- reported that firefighters Pelosi, who has called who added that Lai thanked
militant group’s self-pro- customary chief Jean- dence, Kansas, and said he were called to a home in the for a diplomatic boycott of the U.S. for its “rock-solid”
claimed capital, approved Pierre Mponde was killed was heading to Washington, small town of Pierce at 5:46 next month’s Beijing Winter support of the island.
the opening of a military by Congolese army troops D.C., to see the president, a.m. The newspaper, citing Olympics, reiterated her The U.S. has recognized
battalion to train women to in August 2016. according to an affidavit an emergency responder concern about Chinese Beijing under its “one China
help defend the city. Fluke- Sharp, the panel’s coor- filed in U.S. District Court who spoke on condition of human rights abuses, policy,” without clarifying its
Ekren, investigators said, dinator and expert on for the District of Maryland. anonymity, reported “multi- according to a senior Demo- position on Taiwan’s sover-
soon became the leader and armed groups, and Cata- The U.S. Secret Service ple deaths.” cratic aide familiar with eignty, making for notori-
organizer of it. lan, a humanitarian expert, called Merryman on No one was answering the call. She also discussed ously delicate diplomacy.
[phone]
860-512-8496
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WORLD & NATION
Pulling back curtain to parry Russia
US, allies publicize which has been criticized
intel to preempt for giving Moscow more
leverage over Ukraine and
disinformation push
Western Europe. The Biden
administration lobbied
By Nomaan Merchant Democrats in Congress to
Associated Press oppose a Republican-spon-
sored bill that would have
WASHINGTON — In a required the imposition of
break from the past, the U.S. sanctions against the pipe-
and its allies are increasingly line, which has not yet gone
revealing their intelligence into operation.
findings as they confront The White House has
Russian preparations for threatened tough sanctions
invading Ukraine, looking to if Russia does invade and is
undercut Russian President preparing to move forces to
Vladimir Putin’s plans by NATO’s eastern flank in the
exposing them and deflect- event of an invasion. The
ing his efforts to shape world U.S. and Western allies are
opinion. also sending weapons and
The White House in missile systems to Ukraine.
recent weeks publicized Molly McKew, a writer
what it said was a devel- and lecturer on Russian
oping Russian “false-flag” influence, said the admin-
operation to create pretext istration’s moves to counter
for an invasion. Britain Russia’s influence efforts
named specific Ukrainians needed to be accompanied
it accused of having ties to by a clearer statement of
Russian intelligence offi- American goals and plans to
cers plotting to overthrow repel any invasion.
President Volodymyr Zelen- Publicly identifying
skyy. The U.S. also released A United States congressional delegation led by Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., third right, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Russia’s actions alone will
a map of Russian military Committee, gives a briefing Friday after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. EFREM LUKATSKY/AP not stop Russia from carry-
positions and detailed how ing them out, said McKew,
officials believe Russia will to Ukraine’s north. There allege, Russia has posi- with the global community and forth online. Krem- a former adviser to Presi-
try to attack Ukraine with as is growing pessimism in tioned operatives in east- and the U.S. public what lin-backed RT.com on Dec. dent Mikhail Saakashvili of
many as 175,000 troops. Washington and London ern Ukraine who could use they’re trying to do and 21 posted a video alleging Georgia, which fought a war
Experts credit the White about ongoing diplomatic explosives to carry out acts why.” “US private military compa- in 2008 with Russia and still
House for declassifying efforts and a belief that of sabotage against Russia’s A European Union offi- nies are amassing CHEM- is trying to regain control of
intelligence and moving to Putin will likely mount some own proxy forces and then cial told reporters Friday ICAL COMPONENTS separatist regions backed by
rebut false claims before sort of invasion in the next blame Kyiv. that Moscow-aligned outlets in Eastern Ukraine.” The Moscow.
they’re made — a so-called several weeks. The White House has are promoting justifica- State Department rejected “They’re trying to apply
“prebuttal” that undercuts Russia is known for repeatedly highlighted what tions for conflict in a similar that claim in its fact sheet disinformation thinking to
their effectiveness better using disinformation as a it sees as disinformation and manner to eight years ago. on Russian propaganda. military domains,” she said.
than an after-the-fact expla- tactic to sow confusion and is privately sharing addi- One narrative those outlets Russia’s Foreign Ministry “You absolutely cannot
nation. discord as part of its over- tional intelligence with allies are promoting — in appar- then responded with tweets expose away the crisis.”
But the release of infor- all conflict strategy. When including Ukraine. The ent response to the recent “debunking @StateDept In both the U.S. and
mation isn’t without risks. Russia invaded Ukraine’s State Department recently American allegations — is ‘facts’ on Russian disinfor- Ukraine, experts say, there
Intelligence assessments Crimean Peninsula in 2014, published a fact sheet list- the U.S. may be planning its mation on Ukraine.” is far more societal aware-
carry varying degrees it mounted a campaign to ing and rejecting several own false-flag operation to Washington’s efforts have ness now of state-sponsored
of certainty, and beyond sway ethnic Russian resi- Russian claims. And the trigger a confrontation in raised questions in Kyiv, disinformation. Russia in the
offering photos of troop dents of the territory. State Treasury Department sanc- eastern Ukraine. where Ukrainian Presi- past several years has contin-
movements, the U.S. and media and social media tioned four men accused of Moscow continues to dent Volodymyr Zelen- ued to bombard Ukrainians
its allies have provided accounts linked to Russia ties to influence operations make demands that NATO skyy has taken a different with text messages and false
little other proof. Moscow promoted allegations that intended to set the pretext in not accept Ukraine or public approach of trying stories during the ongoing
has dismissed Washing- the West was manipulating Ukraine for a new invasion. further expand to any other to tamp down public fears war in eastern Ukraine in
ton’s claims as hysteria and protests in Kyiv and false White House press secre- countries. And after British of an expanded war even as which at least 14,000 people
invoked past American or unconfirmed tales of tary Jen Psaki described a intelligence accused him many Ukrainians prepare have died.
intelligence failures, includ- lurid crimes committed by “strategic decision to call of being a possible Russia- for possible combat. But publicly accusing
ing false information put Ukrainian forces. out disinformation when backed candidate for pres- Ukrainian officials Russia of misbehavior is an
forward about Iraq’s weap- This time, the U.S. and we see it.” ident, Ukrainian politician privately question why the ultimately a limited deter-
ons programs. allies say, Russia is trying to “We are much more Yevheniy Murayev denied Biden administration is rent, said Bret Schafer,
There are no clear signs of portray Ukrainian leaders as cognizant of the Russian the claim and told the AP warning about an impend- senior fellow at the German
change so far from Russia, aggressors and to persuade disinformation machine that it “looks ridiculous and ing invasion but not impos- Marshall Fund’s Alliance for
which continues to move its own citizens to support than we were in 2014,” she funny.” ing preemptive sanctions Securing Democracy. “They
forces toward Ukraine military action. At the same said Wednesday, adding, Meanwhile, Washing- or taking action against the don’t care about reputa-
and into Belarus, an ally time, the U.S. and its allies “We need to be very clear ton and Moscow go back Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, tional damage.”
As vaccines for children stall,
appeals aimed at wary parents
By Jan Hoffman
The New York Times
For weeks, the school
principal had been implor-
ing Kemika Cosey: Would
she please allow her chil-
dren, ages 7 and 11, to get
COVID-19 shots?
Cosey remained firm. A
hard no.
But “Mr. Kip” — Brigham
Kiplinger, principal of
Garrison Elementary
School in Washington, D.C.
— swatted away the “no.”
A boy plays last week in the shadow of high-rise buildings in Jakarta, the capital. Indonesia Since the federal govern-
plans to move and build a new capital on the island of Borneo. DITA ALANGKARA/AP ment authorized the coro- Kemika Cosey with her children, Zurie, left, and Zamir,
navirus vaccine for children students at Garrison Elementary School in Washington, D.C.,
Indonesia’s polluted, sinking ages 5-11 nearly three on Tuesday. ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES
months ago, Kiplinger has
been calling the school’s the-gate surge in demand interpreted those messages
capital moving to a new spot parents, texting, nagging lasted a scant few weeks. to mean that the shots
and cajoling daily. Acting “I was surprised at how served little purpose. In
as a vaccine advocate has quickly the interest in the fact, the vaccines have been
become central to his role vaccine for kids petered shown to strongly protect
By Edna Tarigan technology based on a green and government agencies as an educator. out,” Kates said. “Even against severe illness and
and Niniek Karmini economy.” are still working to finalize Largely through parents who had been death, although they are
Associated Press Skeptics worry, however, that number. Kiplinger’s skill as a parent vaccinated themselves were not as effective in prevent-
about the environmen- It will be located in the vax whisperer, Garrison more cautious about getting ing infections with omicron
JAKARTA, Indone- tal impact of plunking a vicinity of Balikpapan, an Elementary has turned into their kids vaccinated.” as with other variants.
sia — Jakarta is congested, sprawling 990-square- East Kalimantan seaport a public health anomaly: Of Public health officials say Cosey, the Garrison
polluted, prone to earth- mile city down in Borneo’s with a population of about the 250 Garrison Wildcats that persuading parents to parent who staunchly
quakes and rapidly sinking East Kalimantan province, 700,000. in kindergarten through get their younger children resisted Kiplinger’s entreat-
into the Java Sea. which is home to orang- Jakarta itself is home to fifth grade, 80% have had at vaccinated is crucial not ies for weeks, had worried
Now the government utans, leopards and a wide about 10 million people and least one shot, he said. only to sustaining in-per- that the vaccine could
is leaving, and moving the array of other wildlife, as three times that number in But as the omicron vari- son education but also to exacerbate her son’s many
country’s capital to the well as committing $34 the greater metropolitan ant has stormed through containing the pandemic allergies. “It took me a little
island of Borneo. billion to the ambitious area. U.S. classrooms the rate overall. Unvaccinated minute to do a lot more
President Joko Widodo project amid a pandemic. It has been described as of vaccination overall for elementary school children research,” she said.
envisions the construction “The new capital city’s the world’s most rapidly America’s 28 million chil- remain a large, turbulent Then, last month, she
of a new capital as a panacea strategic environmental sinking city, and at the dren ages 5-11 remains even source of spread. Traveling took both children to a
for the problems plaguing study shows that there are current rate, it is estimated lower than health experts to and from school on buses, school clinic. Yes, her pedia-
Jakarta, reducing its popu- at least three basic prob- that one-third of the city had feared. According to a traversing school hallways, trician had encouraged her,
lation while allowing the lems,” said Dwi Sawung, could be submerged by new analysis by the Kaiser bathrooms, classrooms and but she also gives credit to
country to start fresh with an official with the WALHI 2050. The main cause is Family Foundation based on gyms, they can unknow- Kiplinger.
a “sustainable city” that has environmental group. uncontrolled ground water federal data, only 18.8% are ingly act as viral vectors At the school’s clinic, “Mr.
good public transportation, “There are threats to extraction, but it has been fully vaccinated and 28.1% countless times a day. Kip took a million pictures,”
is integrated with its natu- water systems and risks of exacerbated by the rising have received one dose. Despite the proliferation she added. “He was just
ral environment and is in climate change, threats to Java Sea due to climate “It’s going to be a long of COVID-crowded hospi- superexcited that I decided
an area that’s not prone to flora and fauna, and threats change. slog at this point to get tals, sick children and the to come in.”
natural disasters. of pollution and environ- Beyond that, its air and the kids vaccinated,” said highly contagious aspect Kiplinger is determined
“The construction of mental damage,” she said. ground water are heavily Jennifer Kates, a senior vice of omicron, many parents to convert the remaining
the new capital city is not First proposed in 2019, polluted, it floods regularly president at Kaiser who do not believe the virus vaccine holdouts at Garri-
merely a physical move Widodo’s plan to establish and its streets are so clogged specializes in global health is dangerous enough to son. At the most recent
of government offices,” the city of Nusantara — an that it is estimated conges- policy. She says it will take warrant risking their child’s vaccine clinic, he stood by
Widodo said this month old Javanese term meaning tion costs the economy $4.5 unwavering persistence like health on a novel vaccine. as a mother argued over the
ahead of parliament’s “archipelago” — will entail billion a year. that of Kiplinger, whom she Health communica- phone with her husband.
approval of the plan. “The constructing government In constructing a knows firsthand because tion experts additionally “The mom and her four
main goal is to build a smart buildings and housing from purpose-built capital, Indo- her child attends his school. blame that view on the Wildcats wanted the shots,
new city, a new city that is scratch. Initial estimates nesia will be taking a path “It’s hard, hard work to early muddled messaging but for the dad it was a ‘no.’
competitive at the global were that some 1.5 million that others have in the past, reach parents.” around omicron, which It broke my heart,” he said.
level, to build a new loco- civil servants would be including Brazil, Myanmar After the Pfizer-BioN- was initially described as “But we have another
motive for the transforma- relocated to the city, some and Pakistan. The reloca- Tech vaccine was autho- “mild” but also as a variant clinic coming up soon,” he
tion ... toward an Indonesia 1,200 miles northeast of tion process is scheduled to rized for younger children that could pierce a vaccine’s added, “and I’m hoping that
based on innovation and Jakarta, though ministries be completed by 2045. in late October, the out-of- protection. Many parents maybe he’ll come around.”
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In an Iraqi town, Chinese tongue seals ties
Language school 300 million standard cubic
feet per day if approved by
projects Beijing
Iraq’s next government.
power into Mideast Investing in Iraq is a risk
that China is willing to take.
By Samya Kullab With lower profit margins,
Associated Press Chinese firms always offer
more attractive, lower-price
IRBIL, Iraq — In a class- contracts, industry officials
room in northern Iraq, and Iraqi officials said.
Zhiwei Hu presides over Thursday is “Chinese
his students as a conduc- Corner” at the language
tor would an orchestra. He department.
cues with a question, and the Chinese businesses —
response from his students from oil to wallpapering —
resounds in perfect, fluent come and meet the students
Chinese. under the pretext of practic-
The 52-year-old has been ing language skills. Most end
teaching the cohort of 14 up with promises for future
Iraqi Kurdish students at employment.
the behest of the Chinese “We speak in Chinese and
Consulate in the northern talk about business and the
city of Irbil. future,” said one student,
His class is part of an Hiwar Saadi. “They come
experiment with the local to us to meet us and make a
Salahaddin University: If connection.”
these students succeed in Two students are already
graduating, the Chinese working part-time for a
Language Department Chinese telecommunica-
would be officially open tions firm as translators.
for enrollment, giving the “It’s the opposite in every
growing plethora of Chinese other department in the
companies in Iraq’s Kurdish Chinese lecturer Zhiwei Hu speaks to students in the Chinese language department on Jan. 19, 2021, at Salahaddin University in university. Supply is high but
region their pick for hires. Irbil, Iraq. The Chinese language school in northern Iraq is attracting students across the region. KHALID MOHAMMED/AP the demand for jobs is low,”
Regin Yasin sits at the Farhadi said. “Here, the
front. “I wanted to learn more attracted they will China to develop relations demands,” said Farhadi. The unfavorable contract terms. students are turning down
Chinese because I know be to Chinese goods,” said with states along its path department opened in 2019 U.S. oil giant Exxon job offers in order to focus
China will have an upper Sardar Aziz, a researcher through political coordina- and is set to graduate its first Mobil’s exit from West on study.”
hand in the future,” the who recently wrote a Kurd- tion, infrastructure connec- cohort next year. “Then we Qurna 1 field last year came Lessons cover aspects of
20-year-old student said. ish-language book about tivity, trade and financial will expand.” despite Iraqi pleas to stay, Chinese culture and history
“China will expand here, China-Iraq relations. integration, and people-to- The students said learn- Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul- as well. Hu is always quick
that’s why I chose it.” Chinese companies domi- people bonds. ing to write in Mandarin, the jabbar Ismail told The Asso- to remind the students of
China’s interests in Iraq, nate Iraq’s key economic In 2017, the Chinese official language of mainland ciated Press at the time. The Beijing and Irbil’s shared
anchored in energy to sector, oil, and Beijing Consulate approached Sala- China, was the hardest part. presence of a major U.S. golden past: Iraq was part of
quench its growing needs, consumes 40% of Iraq’s haddin University’s College Thousands of special char- company in Iraq had long the ancient Silk Road trade
are expanding. Beijing is crude exports. But from a of Languages with the acters had to be memorized. served as a reassurance for route, linking China’s Han
building power plants, facto- narrow focus on hydrocar- idea of a Chinese language And then there was other companies. dynasty with the West.
ries, water treatment facili- bons, Chinese investments department. Opening a pronunciation. British Petroleum, oper- A former Iraqi ambassa-
ties, as well as badly needed have grown to include other school in the capital Bagh- “Their tongues trembled,” ator of Iraq’s largest oil dor to Beijing, Mohammed
schools across the country. industries, finance, trans- dad came with security Hu said. After five hours of field Rumaila, plans to spin Sabir, said that during his
Dozens of contracts signed port, construction and risks, but the northern Kurd- lessons, five times a week off its business there with time there, Chinese officials
in recent years ensure China’s communications. ish-run region was relatively over three years, “They are another entity jointly owned often recalled their shared
growing footprint, even as The shift was spurred secure. speaking very well.” with China’s CNPC. Other history. Many also remem-
major Western companies, following Chinese Pres- At first, the university Farhadi wishes it could oil companies, including bered how in the 1950s, Iraq
including the U.S., plot their ident Xi Jinping’s 2013 wasn’t sure it would appeal be the same for the English Russia’s Lukoil, are demand- shipped tons of dates to
exit. While Iraqi officials announcement of the ambi- to students or that it could Language Department; the ing amendments to contract China to help during famine.
say they desire a greater U.S. tious Belt and Road Initia- find qualified instructors, U.S. and British consulates terms as a condition to When Sabir began his
presence, they find appeal tive, dubbed the new Silk the college’s dean, Atif have seldom offered help, remain. post in 2004, Iraq-China
in China’s offer of develop- Road, composed of a vast Abdullah Farhadi, said. he said. Chinese companies domi- trade stood at around half a
ment without conditions for array of development and So Farhadi required the “They don’t support us at nate oil contracts, from billion dollars. When he left
democracy or reform and its investment initiatives consulate to provide and all,” he said. operating fields to providing in 2010 it was $10 billion.
deft diplomacy. from East Asia through the pay for teachers, textbooks, As China grows its downstream services, and Last year it reached roughly
“The language school Middle East to Europe. The an audio lab and other class- economic footprint, West- they continue to win more. $30 billion.
is a projection of Chinese U.S. considers it unsettling, room technologies and ern oil firms are reducing Recently, Iraq finalized “They need our oil, and
soft power, to familiarize akin to a Trojan horse for exchange opportunities in theirs. Many have expressed terms with China’s Sinopec we need to find a market to
the region with China. The Chinese expansion. Beijing. discontent with Iraq’s risky to develop Mansuriya gas sell our oil. The road goes
more familiar they are, the The initiative calls for “They fulfilled all of the investment environment and field, which could produce two ways,” he said.
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WORLD & NATION
In Jackson, Tennessee, city employees could one day have the option of converting their paychecks into Bitcoin. Above, businesses in Jackson. HOUSTON COFIELD/THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOS
Crypto mayors on the rise
For this budding political breed,
digital currencies and other buzzy
new tech have power to transform
By David Yaffe-Bellany and impose few costs on
The New York Times the municipality,” said
Joseph Grundfest, a busi-
JACKSON, Tenn. — ness professor at Stanford
Scott Conger, mayor University. “Crypto geeks
of Jackson, Tennessee, fit this bill perfectly.”
campaigned on a modest But as with many ambi-
promise to improve local tious cryptocurrency proj-
infrastructure. He planned ects, it’s unclear whether
to build sidewalks, open a these local initiatives will
senior center and repair the ultimately amount to much.
aging stormwater disposal So far, most are either largely
system in his city of 68,000, symbolic or largely theo-
about halfway between retical. And the mayors’
Nashville and Memphis. aims are partly political:
But as he begins his fourth Cryptocurrency booster-
year in office, Conger, 38, ism has a useful bipartisan
has adopted a new favor- appeal, garnering popularity
ite cause: cryptocurren- among both antigovernment
cies. He has pledged to conservatives and socially
give city employees the liberal tech moguls.
option of converting their “You can do these things
paychecks into Bitcoin and because you want to be
has outlined plans to install associated with dudes with
a digital mining network in AR-15s, or you want to be
a deserted wing of City Hall. associated with Meta,” said
The aim, he said, is to make Finn Brunton, a technol-
Jackson a Southeastern tech ogy studies professor at the
center. University of California at
Like many Americans, Davis, who wrote a 2019
Conger discovered cryp- book about the history of
tocurrencies during the cryptocurrency. “A lot of it
pandemic and soon fell is hype and hot air.”
down an internet rabbit Scott Conger, the mayor of Jackson, Tennessee, is one of a growing number of leaders starting cryptocurrency projects for their
hole. His plans have turned Facing obstacles cities. He calls Bitcoin a “great financial equalizer,” although some residents say they are skeptical of his ambitions.
him into something of a
celebrity in the world of digi- In Jackson, Conger has “Bitcoin bromance.”) Suarez Last year, she announced I’ve been trying to catch,” a tropical background, with
tal currencies — a strange become a frequent guest on has positioned Miami as a plans to turn a popular he said. palm trees swaying in the
distinction for the leader cryptocurrency podcasts, “crypto capital” and thrown whale sculpture in down- Wheeler stopped listen- breeze.) For now, the project
of a midsize industrial hub where he is hailed as a leader his support behind Miam- town Reno into an NFT, a ing to NPR in the morning, remains entirely theoretical.
where Pringles potato chips in “the army of Satoshi,” a iCoin, a cryptocurrency unique digital item that can tuning into cryptocurrency But with the mayor’s
are manufactured. reference to Bitcoin’s shad- token anyone can buy or be traded by cryptocurrency podcasts instead. In Novem- backing, Nelson is planning
“Bitcoin is a great finan- owy founder, Satoshi Naka- mine, with a portion of the investors. The goal, Schieve ber, he invited experts to to establish a trust fund that
cial equalizer,” Conger moto. A former college proceeds flowing into city said, was to funnel the prof- propose initiatives for Phila- would serve as the basis of
declared this month at City football player, Conger coffers. He recently jousted its into Reno’s arts scene. delphia; the original Bitcoin the DAO.
Hall. “It’s a hedge against sometimes goes to work on Twitter with Adams of “It would be great to cut white paper is now posted “I’m dreaming,” he said.
inflation. It can bridge that wearing socks emblazoned New York over which of out the middleman,” Schieve on the city’s website. “Two Harbors could turn
wealth gap.” with tiny orange bitcoins. them loves cryptocurrency said. “I’m not a big fan of The fervor has spread into Disneyland.”
The ballooning popularity But his ambitions have more. banks.” to small-town America. Back in Jackson, Conger
of bitcoin and other digital encountered obstacles. “Every time I would talk A decentralized city Last year, Jalen Nelson, a said he just wanted to make
currencies has given rise to a While he’s close to establish- about crypto, my analytics government built on block- 26-year-old cryptocurrency the city a place where his
strange new political breed: ing a system for city employ- would go through the roof,” chain technology has been a enthusiast, cold-emailed children would be comfort-
the crypto mayor. ees to invest a portion of said the 44-year-old Suarez. long-standing goal of cryp- 2,000 U.S. mayors, hoping to able settling down after
Eric Adams, New York’s their paychecks in bitcoin, Suarez now styles himself tocurrency fans. Vitalik engage them in discussions college. He comes from
new mayor, accepted his his mining proposal has as a kind of cryptocurrency Buterin, one of the found- about blockchain technol- a respected local politi-
first paycheck in bitcoin proved impossible to insti- diplomat. After taking ers of Ethereum, the block- ogy. He got one response — cal family: His grandfather
and another cryptocur- tute under existing laws. over this month as presi- chain behind Ether, wrote from Chris Swanson, mayor served as Jackson’s mayor,
rency, Ether. Francis Suarez, Conger wants to use dent of the U.S. Conference a blog post on the topic in of Two Harbors, Minnesota, and a great-great-great-
Miami’s mayor, headlines public money to plug a of Mayors, a nonpartisan October. And last year, a a town of about 4,000 on the grandfather ran the city in
cryptocurrency confer- bank of computers into the coalition of city mayors, group of cryptocurrency shore of Lake Superior. 1861 and 1871, when mayors
ences. Now even mayors of Bitcoin network, an ener- he urged members to sign investors bought 40 acres in Swanson was taken with served one-year terms.
smaller towns are trying to gy-guzzling process that a “crypto compact” calling Wyoming, aiming to build the idea of forming a decen- Still, Conger acknowl-
incorporate cryptocurrency could generate new coins for on the federal government a blockchain city run by a tralized autonomous organi- edged that some Jackson
into municipal government, the city. He has even found to eschew overly aggressive decentralized network of zation, or DAO — a collective residents were skeptical of
courting startups and exper- a place to put the hardware: regulation of the industry. investors, each of whom of cryptocurrency investors his cryptocurrency ambi-
imenting with buzzy new a suite of rooms in City Hall Last month, Suarez had would vote on important — that would pool money tions.
technologies like nonfungi- that have remained unfin- a private Zoom call with decisions. to fund projects in Two “I don’t know that I’d
ble tokens, or NFTs, to raise ished since the building Gary Gensler, chairman of Harbors in exchange for want my retirement in that,”
money for public projects. opened in 1998. the Securities and Exchange Starting small some kind of voting power said Bobby Maness, 54, an
Their growing ranks But a state law limits the Commission, who has called over the new initiatives. electrician, as he sat down
reflect the increasing main- types of assets that cities can for increased scrutiny of For now, most crypto- “Trying to get some- for lunch at a local burger
stream acceptance of digi- invest in, partly to protect cryptocurrencies. currency-enthused officials thing built can be really joint this month. “What I
tal currencies, which are residents from market vola- “It was kind of funny,” are focused on compar- complicated, and you end worry is, when I get there,
highly volatile. The mayors’ tility. Conger and other local Suarez said. “He said, ‘I atively modest projects. up going to the same pools will it be worth anything?”
embrace of cryptocurrency officials are working on new think I should have done a Mark Wheeler, chief infor- of money over and over and Conger has no such
is also a recognition that legislation to add Bitcoin to little bit more homework.’ It mation officer for Phila- over again,” said Swanson, concerns.
its underlying blockchain the list of permissible invest- was his own way of saying delphia, became fascinated 44. “The projects that the In his office, he keeps
technology — essentially a ments. that I really knew what I was with cryptocurrency in 2018 community wants to see what looks like a copy of the
distributed ledger system In many ways, Conger is talking about.” (The SEC after hearing about an effort could get done quicker.” Jane Austen novel “Pride
— may create new reve- following in the footsteps declined to comment.) in Cook County, Illinois, to Nelson, who recently and Prejudice.” Conger is
nue streams for cities and of Miami’s Suarez, who Suarez’s vice chair at the list property records on a moved to San Antonio from not an Austen fan and the
reshape some basic func- has emerged as the cryp- Conference of Mayors is decentralized database. California, has never set book is not actually a book.
tions of local government. to-bro-in-chief of mayors. a fellow cryptocurrency “Improving the quality of foot in Two Harbors, where It’s a decorative box
“Mayors rationally want (The two men occasion- enthusiast, Hillary Schieve, property-data management winter temperatures can concealing a safe where he
to attract high-income citi- ally text; Conger’s commu- who’s in her second term as inside city government is drop well below zero. (On a stores his personal Bitcoin
zens who pay their taxes nications director calls it a the mayor of Reno, Nevada. like the white whale that recent Zoom call, he chose wallet.
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