"Our motherland needs a lot of improvements, but it's still the motherland," the Weibo user Guaishoukankan wrote in a typical comment.
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"Siblings, the great motherland has granted us a blessed, heavenly life, how can we follow those devils to abandon our motherland?" they said.
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"Securing a Motherland Should Have Been Sufficient" builds on this idea by asking whether it's possible to "secure a Motherland" without leaving someone out, harming someone, or destroying something.
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Grace Meng said her husband was "devoted to the motherland".
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Please remember, a strong motherland will always have your back!
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There's such a thing as a traitor to the Motherland.
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"Children are glad and grateful to the motherland," said another.
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"Leaving the motherland will equal death for me," he wrote.
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How do you stay connected to the culture and motherland?
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There I really realized that my fatherland — not motherland — was Russia.
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And then making a contribution to the legacy of my motherland.
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Some are emotional, stressing "flesh and blood" ties to the motherland.
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A slogan was cut into the field: "I love my motherland".
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It's another kind of tomb song, this time for the motherland.
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This extreme focus on the self can make "Motherland" seem solipsistic.
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How do you stay connected to the culture and the motherland?
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"The great motherland will always strongly back Macau," Mr. Ho said.
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Grindah: I'd probably just go to Jamaica, back to the motherland.
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Nick Cannon took it back to the motherland Wednesday night for dinner.
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Men were wearing headbands saying the homeland, or motherland, will never die.
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But the Lunch Box Moment pales in comparison to the Motherland Moment.
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A chance to give my hair a break and support the motherland?
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Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka lamented a lost connection with the motherland,
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Being Puerto Rican, even salsa music stems back to the Motherland [Africa].
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You see it, and you know you're linked up to the motherland.
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I will protect the unification of the Motherland and unity among ethnicities.
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She said had never considered leaving her patria, her motherland, until now.
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"No force can shake the status of our great motherland," Xi said.
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"The history of their motherland," Mr. Yun said, "is now our history."
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The rest, up to 30,000, went to what they regard as the motherland.
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That is why loving both the motherland and Hong Kong often involves contortions.
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Anticipation of the territory's return "to the bosom of the motherland" was palpable.
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With Motherland: Fort Salem, Freeform is adding its own spin on the mystical.
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Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin), the heroine of "Motherland," is mostly preoccupied with herself.
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"The safety of our motherland cannot be violated," a 30-foot banner read.
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Only when we support the hardworking young people will our motherland have hope.
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He was also videotaped expressing remorse for soliciting prostitution and betraying the motherland.
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Teacher tells me to love the motherland And Chinese-made smartphones, love Huawei!
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"When Xi says the 'motherland,' it leaves me flat," Shang said over coffee.
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Indeed, the Russian church building spree extends far beyond the borders of the motherland.
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"They say they will die there, but will not leave their motherland," says Tahir.
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Putin says they were just "patriotic hackers" doing their part for the motherland. 4.
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The inscription on the Cuban peso coin reads patria o muerte (motherland or death).
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For many, it is a joyous return to the motherland after months in exile.
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"Powerful as the motherland may be, companies still need to handle their own issues."
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I haven't had good jackfruit for ten years since going back to the motherland.
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Celebrating his colleagues' return to the motherland had put him in a contemplative mood.
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I could barely speak to find my way, let alone call this my motherland.
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"Motherland" stars Ms. Corrigan, Felix Bernstein, Sarah Krasnow, Andy Ragni, Gabe Rubin and more.
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Training young talents Lucchesi's passion for the sport brought her back to her motherland.
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They were among thousands of ethnic Russians who fled the motherland for safety in China.
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The dark clouds over the peninsula hang over the motherland as well. Economist.com/blogs/bagehot
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During the episode, Grimaldi asked Viall if he'd ever consider moving to Canada, her motherland.
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Teaching Paige about the Motherland is part of Claudia and Elizabeth's second-generation recruitment efforts.
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But how would a Flamin' Hot Cheeto-crusted musubi perform in the motherland of Hawaii?
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Noah, who is from South Africa, jokingly said it was a win for the Motherland.
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"All maneuvers and tricks to split the motherland are sure to fail," Mr. Xi said.
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Some of us were Australians, lured back to the motherland after a few years abroad.
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Out of the 10 directors who cycled into Motherland season 1, only two were male.
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So fierce allegiance to the motherland is also on the list of concerns for some.
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"The motherland always stands above everything," actor and singer Evan Li said in a statement.
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"The motherland always stands above everything," actor and singer Evan Li said in a statement.
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Sex in the service of the motherland isn't as easy as it used to be.
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It reminds you that this is a small island far from its motherland of France.
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"This is our motherland and if someone is abusing people who are protecting our motherland, actually fighting on the ground, I don't believe they should be allowed to work here or allowed to live here," Rahul Kaushik, one of co-founders the group, told Reuters.
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In her late 20s, she was raised in England, yet inexorably is linked to her motherland.
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Red was the color of blood that the Young Pioneer heroes had spilled for our motherland!
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Cultural bonds, and the growing wealth of the motherland, are powerful forces to pull them back.
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Diaspora Indians are seeking to "bask in the reflected glory of their motherland", says Mr Kumar.
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That country's "one-China principle" decrees that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the Chinese motherland.
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AT THE moment, I'm serving in the ranks of the Armed Forces of our beloved Motherland.
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But still he was a man, he had to defend the Motherland, but you're a girl.
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"She has a strong motherland at her back," wrote one user on the Twitter-like Weibo.
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They want to go to their motherland [South Korea], they don't want to stay in China.
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In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin's propaganda machine, too, is busy inventing endless plots against the motherland.
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You have betrayed your city, you have betrayed your country and you have betrayed the motherland.
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"No force can shake the status of our great motherland," Mr. Xi said, overlooking Tiananmen Square.
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"No force can shake the status of our great motherland," Mr. Xi said, overlooking Tiananmen Square.
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Shoigu's ministry has released photographs of the deceased sailors, hailing them as "real patriots of the Motherland".
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From the dugout, Ngoepe's teammates shouted, "For the Motherland!" while both Ngoepe and Bartee fought back tears.
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By using social media, they're taking back the narrative of their motherland and making it their own.
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"Today is a very delightful and glorious day for our motherland, Bangladesh, and Bangalee nation," she said.
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"Unite the motherland, invigorate China", says a slogan in gold characters down the side of the building.
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She got poor grades and was interested in little other than her Motherland and her leader, Putin.
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I've never been to my motherland, and the way it's looking now I can't any time soon.
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In China we have this strong sense of patriotism, this idea: I need to protect my motherland.
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Groups like Rodina ("Motherland" in Russian) are part of that effort to find other means of protest.
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Her latest project is "Motherland," which wrings comedy out of the sometimes torturous life of a mom.
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If tiny Hong Kong is defying its mighty Motherland, another great power must be egging it on.
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Do we think, by the way, that Martha is going to make it to the glorious motherland?
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"She was raised with old world values of her Catholic motherland, and my grandmother's iron fist," says Mazza.
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"We must encourage the younger generation to think more about the prosperity of the motherland," argues one teacher.
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The concept: an American bistro serving Chinese-American dishes in the motherland, said P.F. Chang's CEO, Michael Osanloo.
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"We are intelligent people, we are proud of our motherland," Andrzej Duda, Poland's president, told supporters this week.
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Facebook effectively colonized the web, giving its citizens easy access abroad while funneling content back to the motherland.
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" Before stepping down, he pumped his fist once again in a chant of "India my motherland is great.
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Both "Motherland" and "The Letdown" stick a dad amid the mom's groups, an equal-opportunity, tent-widening gesture.
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Even some members of the Oxbridge-educated elite have demonstrated some surprising gaps in knowledge of the motherland.
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"Online programs should vigorously promote China's revolutionary culture" advance patriotism , extol the motherland and "praise heroes", the notice said.
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As a native of the Pacific Northwest (Costco's motherland) I grew up on Costco pizza and Saturday Sample Days.
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They're after something saccharine — which is not a quality the hard-bitten cynics of my motherland are known for.
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The movie's central villains in this traditional rom com are Asians in Asia, a Motherland Moment for the ages.
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"The Jews feel very connected to India, which is our motherland, while Israel is our fatherland," Mr. Samuel said.
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There, a middle-aged man reprimanded a group of protesters, accusing them of lacking patriotism for the Chinese motherland.
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For "Motherland or Death" (2011), he traveled to Socialist Cuba, which he likened to the '70s-era Soviet Union.
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Maybe Putin wanted credit for the immensely popular return of what Russians view as "their Crimea" to its motherland.
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A patriotic slogan on one of the classroom posters reads in Hindi, "Maa tujhe salaam" ("Motherland, salute to you").
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Even in our age of global fashion, global communication, global everything, he maintains the earthy terroir of his motherland.
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Amidst this unstable political landscape, music was a tool for freedom — both in the Motherland and throughout the diaspora.
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Created by Stalin in 1937, ALZHIR is the acronym for Akmolinsk Camp for Wives of Traitors to the Motherland.
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To paraphrase Jean-Paul Sartre: If the truth remains cloaked in the motherland, in the colonies it stands naked.
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According to the docs, Joe wants to go back to the motherland in order to bring home the pancetta.
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" As Moon arrived at an airport near the mountain, some 1,000 North Koreans greeted him, waving flowers and chanting "Motherland!
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Russia&aposs World Cup soccer team, metamorphosed from national laughingstock to heroes of the motherland in less than a week.
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Sceptics in Hong Kong call it an expensive way to bind their city and its 7m people to the motherland.
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Mr Kimberley would have traded it in by now, but Chinese firms have asked about shipping it to the motherland.
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In the United States, Chinese government agents are pressuring Chinese expatriates wanted on corruption charges to return to the motherland.
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The far right in France claims that immigration to this overcrowded territory could be a back way into the motherland.
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"But we will certainly will not allow Taiwan to separate from the motherland," Wu told a regular monthly news briefing.
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She also used the opportunity to pay homage to the Motherland by asking guests to wear their African-inspired best.
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Because of this, she had assumed that the cuisine from her family's motherland was just not good to begin with.
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Lee Teng-hui, a former president, even said that during the second world war Japan—not China—was Taiwan's "motherland".
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"We were prepared to die for the Motherland, but not in those underpants," Ms. Alexievich recalled the woman telling her.
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After two weeks of silence, Igor's body was returned with the simple explanation that he had died for the motherland.
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"It is showing the wounds that he got in the service of the motherland," said Ms. Schulmann, the political scientist.
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"They are earning our people's money, and yet they are thinking of splitting our motherland," said a user on Weibo.
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I needed to get away from tech, so I spent a few months in the motherland, just volunteering for Kiva.
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What is okay and encouraged: patriotism, praises to the motherland, positive historical material, filial piety, and stories about helping the poor.
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Their presence, for all that it is largely out of sight, is not just to safeguard the motherland from outside attack.
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"We will never tolerate any activity, in any form or name, which attempts to separate Taiwan from the motherland," Li said.
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"(This) anti-coup granny was leading a group of men, marching and chanting, 'The motherland is solid,'" Busch shared on Instagram.
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Not so surprisingly, Irish dog breeds were more likely – by 85.7% – to have names inspired by the motherland over other breeds.
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"Malaysia is the source of a lot of smuggling operations by North Korea to raise money for the motherland," he said.
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Dare I say that they are even better than some I've had in the motherland, about three hours south of here.
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"A small group of devils create violence and terror in order to split the motherland and destroy ethnic unity," they said.
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CHINA'S leaders wince at the merest hint of support for the separation of any part of their country from the "motherland".
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He said he was recorded reading two letters of apology, one for soliciting prostitution, and the other for betraying the motherland.
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Putin is an old-school, hard-edged, national interest-centered Russian leader, defending the "rodina" (the motherland), not a discredited ideology.
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Shout out to the motherland for all the fantasies and shout out to Jersey for the real life club music legacy.
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" We are told that the motherland is your mother: "No matter how ugly your mother is, you don't criticize your mom.
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We will think about the future of our great Motherland," said Putin, before leading the crowd in repeated chants of "Russia!
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So much for my shot at remaking myself in the Motherland—apparently 53 was the wrong year for foreign electoral interference.
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During British colonial times, many Hong Kong people identified with mainland China, the motherland, and were deeply interested in developments there.
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"In this materialistic era, I believe literature is more crucial than ever for the conscience of my motherland," Mr. Xue said.
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Perhaps this is because it is not a rosy, heroic tale of the empire coming to the rescue of the motherland.
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He said they recorded him reading two letters of apology, one for soliciting prostitution, and the other for betraying the motherland.
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That said, he says he'd like it if they share the screen with talent from the Motherland (he can say that).
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Joe Giudice is getting his wish -- he's returning to his motherland as he awaits a final decision in his deportation case.
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This is for the healthy development of the cause of sports in our motherland, and for the morality and conscience of mankind.
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Just like in traditional espionage, the goal of digital spying is to vacuum up information that could be useful to the motherland.
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"The athletes will show their love for their motherland and their patriotism through their results, through their accomplishments and medals," Velikaya said.
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To go with that, every movie goer will also be required to stand up as a sign of respect for the motherland.
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"No matter whether it takes 15 hours, or however long, to reach the border, the border belongs to our motherland," he said.
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White Russian émigré's like Pyotr Leshchenko were seen as traitors for not returning to the motherland and their songs were subsequently outlawed.
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" In the army in World War II, he ran into his former interrogator, who now said to him, "We share a Motherland.
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It all happened while Abraham was living in Japan and playing against some of the best fighters in the Street Fighter motherland.
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"We are preparing to defend the sacred motherland, in case they one day dare to mess with our beloved Venezuela," he said.
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"We are preparing to defend the sacred motherland in case they one day dare to mess with our beloved Venezuela," Maduro said.
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Now she's living in Singapore, her motherland, laying down new roots and projects since her start as a rapper 12 years ago.
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"I am determined to lead the people of Taiwan Province to reunify with our motherland," said the builder responsible for the transformation.
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In a forceful speech in March, Mr. Xi warned against efforts to divide the "great motherland," which in China's view includes Taiwan.
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There is no line there either, even though our dictator has promised people who vote a "prize from the motherland" — meaning, money?
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Kim's had a busy week in her motherland -- delivering a keynote speech and getting her kids baptized in Armenia's capital of Yerevan.
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He declared that Russia was not afraid of anyone and that the Russian people were ready to sacrifice themselves for the motherland.
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The old stereotypes of the fatalistic Russian peasant willing to endure any hardship for the motherland are long since out of date.
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Yet however much Hong Kong has matured under Chinese rule, it is clear that the motherland does not yet trust it to behave.
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Taiwan, too, faces increasing military and diplomatic pressure over Ms Tsai's refusal to accept that her island is part of the Chinese motherland.
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He's always talking about how he comes from his motherland where no man can beat him and all the things that he's done.
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Indeed, I hope that it will help galvanize forces that will usher in a new era of human liberty in our beloved motherland.
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As the motherland becomes ever wealthier and more powerful, its leaders seem genuinely to hope that Taiwan's people will want to rejoin it.
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Pakistan pre-empted him by sending armed "volunteers" to foment an uprising, for surely his Muslim subjects longed to join their new motherland.
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"I am proud of Huawei, I am proud of my motherland," Meng said in a post on Chinese social media after her release.
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"For Chinese youth of the new era, ardently loving the motherland is the foundation of building the body and of talent," he added.
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The rivalry between the motherland and its former colony in five-day matches has produced many of the sport's most memorable individual performances.
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"Now finally it's settled on China as a benchmark, and this shows that our motherland has become a global focus," Mr. Guo said.
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He thinks that Dominika would make an excellent sparrow—a professional seductress, trained to pitch her woo at malleable foes of the motherland.
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According to Williams, the strength of Motherland doesn't just come from the diversity in front of the camera, but behind it as well.
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It is entirely unclear why this is happening, considering the national anthem of Bulgaria is "Мила Родино," transliterated as "Mila Ridino" or Dear Motherland.
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Boycotting that fake and dangerous election means that we uphold our ideals by remaining loyal to our people and determined to rescue ... our motherland.
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The carnage Elizabeth (Keri Russell) inflicted on The Americans was mostly part of her job: a grisly price to pay for serving the motherland.
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TAIWAN and China, which claims the independent island-nation as part of the motherland, used to play a joyless slogging game called "dollar diplomacy".
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You can feel Iannucci working his way through a list of insultables: the holy Church, the pride of the motherland, the need for grief.
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They said that if they are going to die they would rather die here in this land, and live or die with the motherland.
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The visit made him even more aware of the "greatness of the motherland and the Chinese Communist Party", he told the Chinese News Service.
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We were filled with pride that the shining pearl in the Orient — the name of a popular patriotic song — had returned to the motherland.
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Garvey believed that by returning to the motherland, black people, who were oppressed in the United States, would have a greater chance at liberation.
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"Stones can fall from the sky as long as we live in our Motherland," said Oleg Nikolaev, a successful restaurateur, quoting a Russian expression.
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When the opportunity to participate in Ghana's Year of Return presented itself, I was ready to head to The Motherland to get some answers.
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Land provides food and shelter, like a mother, while the country's past is framed as a history of the British empire raping the motherland.
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Yet, whenever I return to the motherland, I may look like everyone else on the outside, but I stood out like a sore thumb.
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The location meant the stadium had to be designed with a low roof-line so as not to obscure views of "The Motherland Calls" sculpture.
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"The swift development and massive changes in the mainland of the motherland are creating an increasingly strong attraction for the people of Taiwan," he said.
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Honestly, it's a mess over there and it probably would have been easiest for them to just pack up and head back to the motherland.
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Meanwhile a crowd of PiS supporters gathered in front of the presidential palace, carrying Polish white and red flags and chanting "God, honor and motherland".
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Hemon understands these issues, too, having grappled over the course of his career with his maleness, his whiteness, and his yearning for a vanished motherland.
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Far from being seamlessly reabsorbed back into the motherland, the handover has not brought Hong Kong closer to China—it has driven them farther apart.
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But when the country you live in has more Indians than its own nationals, being away from the motherland can be a little less daunting.
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Oils, cheeses and cured meats arrive weekly from the motherland (the mozzarella had indeed traveled from Campania to Ridgewood just days before I savored it).
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" During a weekly flag-raising ceremony at a nearby elementary school, we saw Uighur children chant in unison "My Motherland is the Republic of China.
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Seeing this, the Chinese government concluded that "Hong Kongers' hearts had not yet returned to the motherland," and then set out to help them along.
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Hindu nationalist ideologues have argued that Muslims can't be loyal to India, as it might be their motherland, but it is not their holy land.
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"No force can shake the status of our great motherland, no force can obstruct the advance of the Chinese people and Chinese nation," he declared.
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The last elements of Maradona's legend slide into place, and he is now a bona fide savior of both his motherland and his adopted home.
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Lastly, I feared that my motherland would be another example of United States intervention gone bad, another war that utilized innocent people as political ploys.
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For Namsa's next moves, the designer wants to start making his pieces in Laos so that fans in his motherland can buy Laos Supply, too.
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"They are taught in the art of war from childhood, they obey their elders and serve the motherland," Cossack elder Igor Barannikov told The Associated Press.
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"A new motherland is being born," Correa preached at Yachay, vowing to "jump into the future" and build a "society of knowledge" that will overcome poverty.
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The bishops of Quebec, the Canadian province which for centuries was the greatest bastion of French Catholic piety outside the motherland, have just published a booklet.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - For former Chinese athletes that now compete for other countries' flags, an Olympic meeting with the Motherland at Rio de Janeiro will be bittersweet.
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A kangaroo has been sighted casually making its way through the forests and meadows of Austria, the country routinely confused for the marsupial's similarly named motherland.
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All, that is, except powerful China, which deems Taiwan to be a renegade province that must return to the motherland, and if necessary be forced to.
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Also on Monday, some hard-core activists set a man on fire after he accused a group of protesters of lacking patriotism for the Chinese motherland.
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A somber, trilling violin speaks to the Russian setting, but Harrow mashes up the Motherland with the Big Easy, abruptly inserting jazz-inspired numbers as well.
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From inside the museum, one could hear the music from a nearby miniconcert celebrating the approaching 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the Chinese "motherland."
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More than a romantic desire to return to the motherland, Weems's images confront histories of forced movement while they stand as exegeses on longing and distance.
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"Unify the Motherland" The squad made a surprise appearance at a South Korean men's hockey game, cheering at their first Olympic event not featuring a Northern athlete.
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" To visitors, particularly from nations that fought against the Nazis, the monuments around the city — especially the 20-meter (280-foot) statue known as "The Motherland Calls!
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Though his knife skills may suck, Andy shows us how to make a Cretan spinach pie, packed with lots of fresh herbs from his motherland of Greece.
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So the preamble to the blueprint notes that the GBA will allow "compatriots" in Hong Kong and Macau to "take pride in a strong and prosperous motherland".
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The best part is how they show the other side (Pakistani family) also doing their best for their country and motherland — it's just a matter of perspective.
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"We are the classic motherland of mobility," said Altmaier, calling on carmakers and railways operator Deutsche Bahn to join forces and "put some horsepower on the street".
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Basically, yeah, just sort of trying to explore all the different black cultures all around the world that obviously have a common linkage back to the motherland.
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One critic suggested that urinating into bottles to make a star athlete look clean was now probably worthy of a secret medal for "duty to the motherland."
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The banks' departure felt like a cold shower for independence supporters, willing to give it all for their motherland — except their savings accounts and their European lifestyles.
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Or occasionally, an icon of war, justice or virtue: Boadicea in her chariot in London, the Statue of Liberty in New York, "The Motherland Calls" in Volgograd.
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Her most recent piece, Motherland, detailed the pressures facing women to have children and balance a career and examined how those tensions trickle down to a younger generation.
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This cousin in question has a friend in Berkeley who will be returning to the motherland in a few days, and can take it with him to deliver.
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And in case there were any doubts, the sperm bank at Peking University Third Hospital clarified: Only men with an abiding love for the "socialist motherland" need apply.
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But Elizabeth and Philip are finally catching onto the fact that, just like Paige, they will never be able to fully trust what the motherland is telling them.
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Let's not even try to compare it to prosciutto or serrano—Krakus may have come from the motherland, but it can't hold a candle to its fancy cousins.
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Lonigo, Italy As the grandson of Italian immigrants, it gives me a weird sense of pride to see how much solid hardcore is coming out of my motherland.
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If this country, the motherland of fatwas, undertakes reforms, Islamists throughout the world will have to follow suit or risk winding up on the wrong side of orthodoxy.
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The official version that he voiced himself is that no sacrifice is too great when serving the motherland, plus the bridge would stand as his crowning construction achievement.
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The easiest way to realize the power of a word like "fatherland" was to ask men if they would be happy singing about their motherland instead, she said.
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"He died, heroically defending our motherland in the far reaches against the invasion of maddened barbarians," the group, the Baltic Cossack Union in Kaliningrad, said in the statement.
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Today, there are growing concerns in Singapore that a newly powerful China could upset that equilibrium by seeking to promote loyalty to the Chinese "motherland" among Singaporean Chinese.
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"Many musical compositions that are popular with young people openly advocate suicide, drug addiction, Satanism, extremism and even contain calls for treason against the Motherland," the letter said.
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Problem is ... Pinto says when the Porsche got to the motherland, he tried to get his own certificate of authenticity and found out the engine was NOT authentic.
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The most infamous case involves Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian Federal Security Services (FSB) turned dissident, MI6 consultant and Kremlin critic who fled his motherland for London in 2000.
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I almost expected for one of Sam and Joelle's gang to be the adamant lover of the motherland who suddenly grows uncomfortable when gay Lionel (DeRon Horton) is around.
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Earlier this year Chinese immigrants to Australia were urged to take "the correct attitude" to support "the motherland" in its claims to disputed rocks in the South China Sea.
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Officials have also launched a propaganda campaign, asking people to "warmly love the party, motherland, and the big family of the Chinese people" and "oppose splittism, extremism and violence".
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America, betwixt and between Europe and the frontier, the colonialists who broke free from the motherland and brought civilization to the savages, in search of the moral high ground.
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The risk and cost of deploying spies overseas have been greatly reduced now that fruitful intelligence operations can be carried out from a bland cubicle well inside the motherland.
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The official version, which he voiced himself, was that no sacrifice was too great in serving the motherland, and that the bridge would stand as his crowning construction achievement.
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"Strengthen public identification of every ethnic group with the great motherland, with Chinese nationhood and with Chinese culture," Mr. Xi said at a meeting on Xinjiang at the time.
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Speaking at a conference of military leaders and arms dealers in Sochi, the Russian president outlined how all industries should be ready to do their bit for the Motherland.
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In "Motherland," the writer-performer Cecilia Corrigan ponders the failure of Hillary Clinton's campaign, and other works, including "Molting" and "In the Pines," will explore violence in our culture.
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Now that the election is over (sort of), "Motherland" culminates with an event that combines the videos and a live performance that responds to the outcome of the election.
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"It's very special because this is the tango motherland, the place where it all started," says Alessandro Scurti, who flew in from Rome to take part in the weeklong festivities.
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Time and time again, motherhood is metonymic for one's place of origin, whether your mother's womb, your mother country, or a continental motherland that birthed Blackness and a transcontinental diaspora.
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"I exhort us to commit ourselves collectively to develop our motherland... what unites us is greater than what could ever divide us," Mnangagwa told election participants in his inauguration speech.
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Rowan Atkinson returns as Britain's most bumbling superspy, called out of retirement to help save the motherland when a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all Britain's active undercover agents.
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A short scrap which could be painted as a victory for the Motherland, would boost Putin's already high domestic ratings while potentially magnifying divisions in NATO and embarrassing the alliance.
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"They all but made me an 'enemy of the people', 'traitor of the motherland'," Raufkhon, who lives in Istanbul, said in an interview with Reuters conducted by email and telephone.
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In the past he has vowed not to cede "a single inch of our motherland," and increased military drills around the self-ruled and democratic island of 23 million people.
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The crowd raised their arms and pumped their fists as they chanted the words — "India my motherland is great" — that have become a defining slogan of the Hindu nationalist movement.
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The main memorial is the Mamayev Kurgan complex, over which towers "The Motherland Calls," a statue that symbolizes the common mother of all Russians leading them to engage in battle.
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Witness her poem "Rape Joke," which put her on the map, and much of the other verse in her sexy and endearing bummer of a collection, "Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals" (2014).
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Nobody grows up speaking Asian-American, nobody sits down to Asian-American food with their Asian-American parents and nobody goes on pilgrimages back to their motherland of Asian-America.
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"This is the best and greatest gift to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland," Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong's leader, said at the signing ceremony.
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"People must feel this is my country and this is my motherland," the New Delhi court said in an interim order issued in response to a petition from a local retiree.
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The two men decided to hop into the fountain to pose for photos in their underwear beneath the Altar of the Motherland, which also holds the tomb of the unknown soldier.
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In the early 1980s, China's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, produced the "one country, two systems" formula: Hong Kong would return to the motherland but retain its autonomy and way of life.
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"The Indonesian motherland is being raped," Prabowo told another massive rally in a stadium in central Jakarta, as tens of thousands of supporters, many dressed in white Islamic clothes, chanted his name.
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"The priests even go beyond the old Soviet military kommissars, reassuring recruits that there is nothing immoral about following orders to launch nuclear missiles and protect the sacred motherland," the Bulletin said.
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I was a top-of-class student in my motherland, but in English-speaking California, my comprehension of the foreign language was at a level at least five years below my age.
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A former Russian Federal Security Services (FSB) agent, in 2000 Litvinenko fled his motherland for London, where he became a harsh critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and eventually a British citizen.
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The presence of Australians and New Zealanders, as well as troops from the motherland, indicated that consultations had taken place with these two dominions some time ago to insure their full agreement.
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But being born into the family of a career officer and war correspondent, I had also continually endured a sense of guilt for failing to meet my duty in serving my motherland.
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Back then, salmon was just another staple food for the East End's Jewish migrants, enjoyed with a bagel and alongside other traditional dishes from the motherland like schmaltz herring and potato latkes.
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Now that I'm an economic migrant in the diaspora, I see ghosts constantly: people who look like family I've lost, smells of food I'll never have again, jewelry stolen from my motherland.
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This set off chain reactions that often saw minorities within the fledgling nation-states' borders either demanding their own autonomy or rejecting their new countries and reaching back to the Russian motherland.
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They say their mainland counterparts regarded it as an affront that the newly recovered territory would allow extradition to some foreign countries – even to America and Britain - but not to the motherland.
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They say their mainland counterparts regarded it as an affront that the newly recovered territory would allow extradition to some foreign countries – even to America and Britain — but not to the motherland.
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But the band's critiques of Mr. Putin and — worse, for many Russians — its reputation for sacrilege and denigration of the Motherland have ensured that it remained all but invisible on state media.
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"The bridge is aimed at tying Hong Kong and Macau to the motherland," Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington, told me.
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Until now, a real threat to Russia from abroad has been an important component of Putin's efforts to position himself as the only individual who can keep the Motherland safe at all costs.
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I lived in Los Angeles in 1997-173 and Washington, DC, in 2000-2010 and, like many self-satisfied ex-pats, I wore my ignorance of the motherland as a badge of pride.
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Quebec used to be more devoutly Catholic than France, but these days it is racing to imitate and even outdo the Gallic motherland in its embrace of secularism, and probably going too far.
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This season is home to Battle of the Bastards and the end of the Bolton rule on the North (finally!) as well as Arya's return to her motherland and killing off Walder Frey.
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"The liberation of the Golan by all available means and its return to the Syrian motherland is an inalienable right," Syria's foreign ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SANA.
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Other passenger or "free" Indians who chose to work in South Africa also maintained close relations with the motherland, traveling often to see family and to bring back spices, seeds and vegetable matter.
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Since the Punjab massacres and the Kashmir fighting Hindu communalism claims to be the ally of Indian patriotism for repelling Pakistan aggression and restoring, by force if necessary, the unity of the Motherland.
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"The nuclear force of the DPRK is the treasured sword of justice and the most reliable war deterrence to defend the socialist motherland and the life of its people," the official reportedly said.
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And perhaps most alarming of all, the people of "inalienable" territories wrested from the motherland by predatory imperialists—Hong Kong and Taiwan—show no enthusiasm at all for a return to its bosom.
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Given his stated policy of safeguarding ethnic Russians who were severed from the motherland after the Soviet Union disintegrated, some fear the next target might be the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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"As long as in the end they still ardently love the motherland, and are willing to make contributions toward it, I believe the Chinese government will encourage, support and welcome it," he said.
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"For the husband whom I deeply love, for my young children, for the people of my motherland, for all the wives and children, so that their husbands and fathers will no longer disappear."
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And in proudly multicultural Singapore, there are worries that China is branding itself as supreme "motherland" to the city-state's ethnic Chinese, who make up 75 percent of the population of 5.6 million.
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On the mainland, China's state-run propaganda machine has cast the protests as a riotous anti-China separatist movement orchestrated by the United States and other countries eager to tear the motherland apart.
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They were fighting for the reunification and independence of their motherland, while the American soldier served in a half-conscript, half-volunteer army fighting a war of empire thousands of miles from home.
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But it is also because an unknowable but significant number accept the narrative of China's media that treacherous radicals in Hong Kong, perhaps funded by the CIA, are trying to split the motherland.
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Away from "the all-encompassing and smothering embrace of America" — the motherland — these women peek out from the losses of their past tense, the temporariness of their present, and begin to see one another.
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The sole Asian-American in the book, Rachel Chu, goes through her own Motherland Moment as she contends with her rich boyfriend's unwelcoming family, who believes that she's a gold-digger after their wealth.
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They call the country the motherland, and sometimes you will hear the leaders — even Kim Il Sung, the country's founder and Kim Jong Un's grandfather — referred to as the "Great Motherly Leader" in Korean.
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While the top of the list consists primarily of Western countries, Japan is ranked 14th on the list and the motherland of curry that is India didn't even make it into the top 20.
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The girl reflects the self-destructive nature of separatist efforts and the need to resist the narrative of "securing a motherland" from the oppressor so as to avoid unwittingly becoming the oppressor one abhors.
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At that point I was just thinking about the hostess job; I wasn't thinking about all of the identity issues that come up in the book, going to the motherland and stuff like that.
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"It is the sacred duty of any PLA pilot to safeguard the territory of our motherland," reads the text on the envelopes, which feature pictures of PLA warplanes and pilots on flights near Taiwan.
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This, too, seemed like an act of escape: Yan experienced what it was like to scale China's digital firewall and gaze out at a world filled with information and books banned by his motherland.
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She became queen when Martin van Buren was the U.S. president, only the eighth man to hold that office in a nation still forging its evolving relationship with its one-time motherland, Great Britain.
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" The operatives of the agency, widely known by its old acronym of GRU, set an example for a future generation of military spies, he added, citing their readiness to sacrifice everything "for the motherland.
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But as the clip went viral, officials began accusing the young men of desecrating their uniforms and offending veterans, as if they'd neglected their duties to the motherland by staging an ironic erotic performance.
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It was strange, in this charred landscape, to receive messages on my phone from relatives on the mainland, extolling the motherland and urging me to watch video clips they sent of the military parade.
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London Theater Reviews LONDON — Could a musical about a young country turning its back on the motherland succeed in that same "tiny island across the sea," to use the language of the show itself?
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Expressions of contrition from foreign designers and CEOs were paraded across social-media sites, joined by resignation letters from Chinese celebrities, noisily quitting as envoys for errant brands and stressing their love for the motherland.
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When I was in college, my family and I would visit our motherland in Bangkok over the summer break in May, and our tradition was to always visit the temple where my dad's ashes resided.
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"Let us reunite as one as brother and sister in the same motherland after this presidency and parliamentary election is over, reuniting and tending to our brotherhood as members of the same nation," added Jokowi.
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Paradoxically, the West's sanctions against business figures closest to the Russian president helped whitewash some of the most notoriously corrupt Russian oligarchs and allow Russian propaganda to present them as selfless defenders of the motherland.
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The ongoing effort, which includes follow-up checks and random inspections at schools, is designed to promote "patriotism" and "core socialist values", reflecting a "love for the motherland", China's education ministry said at the time.
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As Somalis settled in foreign cities and grappled with the possibility of losing their sense of identity and culture, social media was like an extension of the motherland, connecting millions of Somalis to one another.
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Xi told the 3,000-odd delegates at the annual session of parliament that China would push for the "peaceful reunification of the motherland" and work for more Taiwanese to enjoy the opportunities of its development.
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"We will never tolerate any activity, in any form or name, which attempts to separate Taiwan from the motherland," Li said in a report available before he delivered an annual address to China's top legislature.
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" In November 2016, according to the lawyer's letter, Ms. Viktor was contacted by an assistant to Jay Hart, a Marvel set decorator, asking to feature her work, "Constellations I" in the movie, then titled "Motherland.
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He lacks the deep understanding of economics and finance required of his post, but no matter: He has professed his patriotism and has diligently implemented Beijing's economic policy to "fuse" Hong Kong and the motherland.
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" Referring explicitly to both Hong Kong and Taiwan, he declared: "The complete reunification of the motherland is an inevitable trend; it is what the greater national interests entail and what all Chinese people aspire for.
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"All the participants were of the same opinion - our sportsmen need to go to Korea, need to compete, achieve victory for the glory of Russia, for the glory of our motherland," ROC President Alexander Zhukov said.
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"Our military exercises are carried out to protect the sovereignty of our motherland and territorial integrity," he told reporters Monday on the sidelines of a cross-strait business conference in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou.
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Owned by Gerardo Pulega and Edelmira Ibarra-Pulega, it offers a welcoming air and homey cuisine that, except for an outlier Waldorf salad and an entree of orange-glazed salmon filet with couscous, honors the motherland.
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" Faye assures native Frenchmen that their "sub-continental motherland" is "an organic and vital part of the common folk, whose natural and historical territory—whose fortress, I would say—extends from Brest to the Bering Strait.
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The Canadian experience was not free of sin—as the indefensible treatment of the First Nations demonstrates—and was, as well, not free of the "colonial cringe" that bedevils so many countries overattached to the motherland.
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Contemporary creative arts has shown a connection with the Motherland through the works of beloved writers such as Toni Morrison—who threaded concepts of African spirituality into her work such as Beloved (1987) and Sula (1973).
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"Overseas Chinese are now in difficulty, and their relatives in the motherland should give them the utmost support," said Zhang Weiren, vice-chairman of the Zhejiang Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, according to Chinese state media.
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Her father, David Dos Santos, grew up in Brazil, and Ariana has been to the soccer motherland several times (she even speaks Portuguese and demanded that David only call her Neymar at just three years old).
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In his own New Year's address, Chinese President Xi Jinping referred to the protests, saying "Hong Kong's prosperity and stability is the wish of Hong Kong compatriots and the expectation for the people of the motherland."
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China's leader, Xi Jinping, arrived in Macau on Wednesday for a three-day visit to mark the 20th anniversary of the territory's "return to the motherland" in 1999, after more than four centuries of Portuguese rule.
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Singers frequently appear, sometimes with a literal function (to deliver "The Motherland Song," during a patriotic school concert), sometimes with a more poetic, associative one (singing a Tartar lullaby that suggests Nureyev's loneliness after his defection).
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I'm personally interested in seeing Ramona S. Diaz's Motherland (2017), a documentary that follows the community of patients at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Metro Manila, where poor pregnant women can receive professional care.
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It felt like proof this was indeed the land of opportunity—that the American dream was real—and for the first time, I started to feel closer to my new home than my motherland of Taiwan.
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After Chinese state television broadcast images of the departing McCampbell being "expelled from the sacred waters of the Motherland" by fishing boats, China hawks in Congress called for American warships to return in force to the area.
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They threatened to turn him into the cops unless he left the country, so he chose to return to Canada instead of his family's motherland Korea — eventually landing in Whitby, ON or "Whiteby" as he calls it.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Young members of China's Uighur Muslim minority should "love the motherland" and learn Mandarin to help fight a perception they are "terrorists", Uighur members of the ruling Communist Party said in state media on Thursday.
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"Every time we flew the H-6K bomber over the island, my comrades and I could clearly see the wonderful landscape of our motherland, before recording the scenes with cameras," it quoted pilot Wu Yuepeng as saying.
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"Each drop of blood of our heroes is a testament to the fact that we all are united as a nation to cleanse our beloved motherland from terrorist elements," the prime minister's office said in a statement.
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"Our duty to our country, our Motherland, is to be ready to defend its sovereignty, security and national interests of our country, and if necessary - to support our allies," he said, in an address to military attaches.
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"The nuclear force is the treasured sword of justice and the most reliable war deterrence to defend the socialist motherland and the life of its people," said the state-run Korean Central News Agency, quoting the spokesman.
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And given what season five has been showing us over in the motherland, I'm betting the final two episodes are going to dig deep into what it would mean for the Jennings family to return "home" in 1984.
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Ji's past suffering is sometimes mentioned in the more commercial media, but there it's usually done in a breezy, sugarcoated language: Maestro Ji had endured hardship, yet his love for our motherland has never diminished, blah, blah, blah.
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Most of my delegation came from BAB (in other words, the golden triangle of Bayonne, Anglet, and Biarritz), so naturally, we staggered over to the stands of the Basque Country, planning to meet our death in the Motherland.
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The immigrant novel has tended to be optimistic by nature — stories of upward mobility tinged with nostalgia for the motherland and animated by the character's struggle to balance individual desires and the demands of the family or community.
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"To a wider TV audience, it is meant to discredit human rights defenders as people who fabricate stories that smear the image of the motherland for their own personal gain or self-promotion," Ms. Pils said by email.
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"All acts and tricks to split the motherland are doomed to failure and will be condemned by the people and punished by history," Xi said Tuesday at the close of the National People's Congress, Beijing's rubber-stamp legislature.
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"I must emphasize, since Hong Kong and Macao's return to the motherland, dealing with these two special administrative regions' affairs is entirely China's internal affairs and none of the business of foreign forces," Xi said, according to Reuters.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called Sergei Skripal — the former Russian double agent who was poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England — "a traitor to the motherland" while addressing an energy conference in Moscow, according to the Financial Times.
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His latest historical mystery, "Farewell, My Beautiful Motherland," is told through the eyes of a revolutionary a century ago in the final years of Ottoman rule, when the Young Turk movement sought, in vain, to reform a crumbling caliphate.
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It was a state-sponsored Romanian cop show called Comrade Detective, which followed hard-hitting, above-the-law detectives Gregor Anghel and Joseph Baciu as they prevented Reagan mask-wearing assassins and capitalist conspiracies from rotting their Romanian motherland.
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Indications that Russia was behind Skripal's poisoning provides further evidence that Moscow remains particularly vigilant in their quest to find those who betray the motherland -- at times demonstrating a unique willingness to patiently wait for the opportunity to retaliate.
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Most of what is known about Hong Un-jong back home comes from a book rarely seen in the West, "Olympic Champions Who Bring Glory to the Motherland," published in Pyongyang in 20133 by the Kumsong Youth Publishing House.
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He'd always been fascinated with the music and culture of his motherland, and so at 28, he picked up and moved to Port-au-Prince, intending to explore the rhythms of Haitian roots music as a source of inspiration.
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In her original and supremely captivating book, she has cleverly recreated the fine details of some 20 meals, consumed over four and a half centuries in a variety of homes and ships and tented encampments far from the motherland.
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Privately, some informed figures in Beijing play down the idea that October 1st is a deadline for ending the impasse, murmuring that Hong Kong, a tiny place of 7m people, cannot overshadow celebrations by a motherland of 1.4bn citizens.
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"No force can shake the status of our great motherland, no force can obstruct the advance of the Chinese people and Chinese nation," Mr. Xi said speaking from Tiananmen, or the Gate of Heavenly Peace, which overlooks the square.
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Knowing that Elizabeth has always been a bit more defensive and reactionary than Philip regarding their ideology, I'm looking forward to seeing her try to keep her cool as Pasha's dad, Alexei, inevitably continues to rail against the motherland.
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In a speech to students and top Chinese leaders on Tuesday celebrating the anniversary, President Xi praised China's young people for their creativity and passion, but also called on them to love their motherland and follow the ruling Communist Party's leadership.
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The boy, Kurt, survives the oppression and the bombing of World War Two, but as a grown-up artist in East Germany is forced to conform to Socialist Realism - painting murals of revolutionary peasants singing the praises of the Motherland.
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"The country's sovereignty over Hong Kong will not change 50 years after Hong Kong's return to the Motherland, nor will the country change its basic policies towards Hong Kong after 50 years," then bureau undersecretary Ronald Chan said at the time.
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It's part of the three-episode Discovery series Idris Elba: Fighter, chronicling the actor's immersion in a bona fide kickboxing camp masterminded by Muay Thai trainer Keiran Keddle and playing out in locales like Australia, Cuba, Japan, and the Thai motherland.
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" The Russian news media had mostly ignored the nerve agent attack, until the evening news on Wednesday on the government-controlled Channel One, when the host issued a lightly veiled threat to those like Mr. Skripal who had "betrayed the motherland.
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Joining trends in publishing and comedy (with Ali Wong the filthy-mouthed queen of the genre), this series is part of a mom-com cluster including "Motherland," new to Sundance Now, and "SMILF," which just wrapped a first season on Showtime.
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He talked about how his father was from Shanxi province and mother from Guangdong, and how he had first visited China in 1987 to trace his family's roots, the "first time I had stepped foot on the soil of the motherland".
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In her Harvard application, she wrote about her "Motherland" and how Russia and the United States could be "partners (again) on the world stage," according to her graduate application essay, which was included in the filing Friday among other documents.
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In a speech at the end of China's annual session of parliament, Xi told the 3,000-odd delegates that China would push for the "peaceful reunification of the motherland" and work for more Taiwanese to enjoy the opportunities of China's development.
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The father looked for work but was sickly and failed to find it and one day, without preparation or explanation, he left to go back to the motherland, leaving the girls – 15, 12 and eight – alone in an apartment they could not afford.
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Fellow deep cover Russian operatives, you may remember Garland as the self-declared intelligence expert who rose to Twitter fame by posting incomprehensible strings of emoji-laden, amphetamine-stoked conspiracy theories blaming our motherland for every single event leading to Trump's election.
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"MY MOTHERLAND is the Soviet Union," reads a sentence written in cursive script in one of the exercise books scattered on the floor of an abandoned school in Pripyat, a Soviet-era ghost town in Ukraine next to the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
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The preacher, in the alternate, Augustown version of his story, was not a lunatic who tricked his flock into thinking that he could teach them how to fly back to the motherland but, rather, one of the unsung prophets of a new religion.
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Popular television shows like CBC sitcom "Working Moms," BBC sitcom "Motherland," and CBS's "Mom" deviate from the good mother/bad mother binary and defy the "mommy myth," a highly romanticized and yet demanding view of motherhood which sets impossible standards for success.
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State news agency Xinhua wrote an upbeat Chinese-language report about a government-arranged concert in Hong Kong to celebrate the handover, complete with descriptions of the audience singing the national anthem and how the performers showed their "ardent love of the motherland".
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"I always yearned to see Punjab - my motherland - and now I am so proud to be here after almost 40 years," she told TV reporters at the time, her voice choking with emotion as she steadied herself with nips from a water bottle.
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"In times like this we're often being told to shut our mouths and not have a voice," Ashley Nicole Williams, star of Freeform's witchy new drama Motherland: Fort Salem, said over the phone ahead of the series' premiere on Wednesday, March 18.
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"The situation in Hong Kong in 2019 was the most complex and difficult since its return to the motherland," Xi told local media ahead of a Beijing meeting with Lam Monday, referencing the transfer of the city from British rule in 1997.
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Members, who need not have any culinary training or experience, assess each dish not only for its gastronomic merit, but also for the food's adherence to what they regard as the authentic cooking of Italy — the motherland, for some, the grandmotherland, for others.
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Because it has become essentially the primary mode of communication between people back in the motherland — whether your former home is Bangalore, India; São Paulo, Brazil; Johannesburg or Paris — for people who leave, it becomes something like a window into an old life.
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"For 38 years, we've been fighting to protect the language, culture and identity of our indigenous people in our own motherland," said Samujjal Bhattacharya, an adviser to the All Assam Students Union (AASU), an organization that has spearheaded the campaign against illegal immigrants.
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Or they'll stop you in your tracks as you stroll by — such was my experience of a very large new graphite-on-paper triptych by Kara Walker, "Securing a Motherland Should Have Been Sufficient" (2016), which dominates the Sikkema Jenkins & Co. booth.
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When Britain exposed the Russian agents behind the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB officer, in London in 2006, Russia not only refused demands for the agents' extradition but awarded a medal, for "services to the motherland", to one of the alleged assassins.
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"By visiting the KGB jail, Pope Francis sends a message that he cares about the people who suffered for their faith, for their devotion to the motherland," said Bishop Sigitas Tamkevicius, 79, imprisoned there in 1983 before spending six years in Soviet labor camps.
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It's one thing to think of your daughter in the abstract as a resource for the motherland, and another to confront the messy reality of her following in your footsteps and taking up your line of work, even if only a G-rated version.
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" Ni patrie ni patron, ni Le Pen ni Macron " ("Neither motherland nor bossman, neither Le Pen nor Macron") someone spray-painted, the day after the first round, at the foot of the bronze statue of Marianne that soars above the Place de la République.
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Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Salah said that a month of demonstrations had been "marked by the deeds of noble aims and pure intentions, through which the Algerian people has clearly expressed its values and principles of sincere and dedicated work to Allah and the motherland".
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Lockwood has written two collections of poetry, "Balloon Pop Outlaw Black" (2012) and "Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals" (2014), and amassed a cult following on Twitter for verses that, among other things, convert sexting into high art, marrying the sacred and the profane to lushly amusing effect.
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Fyodor V. Biryukov, a leader of the Rodina, or Motherland, party, said it was the first time that activists in the vanguard of "a new global revolution" had gotten together to rail against same-sex marriage, political correctness, radical Islamists and New York financiers.
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Referring to Macau as the "treasured soil of the lotus flower of the motherland", Li praised the former Portuguese colony as a good example of the 'one country, two systems' principle on which both Macau and the neighboring financial hub of Hong Kong are modeled.
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"The most important task is to protect our motherland's frontier regions, build up our homes, absolutely not allow any groups to separate even one inch of our land from the motherland," said Tashi Yangjen, a representative of the tiny Lhoba ethnic minority of southeast Tibet.
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State news agency Xinhua wrote an upbeat Chinese-language report about a government-arranged concert in Hong Kong to celebrate the handover anniversary, complete with descriptions of the audience singing the national anthem and how the performers showed their "ardent love of the motherland".
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"These young people have no idea that they could be putting Hong Kong on a potentially dangerous collision course with the motherland and bringing an unmitigated disaster," wrote former top Hong Kong security official Regina Ip in an editorial in the state-run China Daily.
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"These young people have no idea that they could be putting Hong Kong on a potentially dangerous collision course with the motherland and bringing an unmitigated disaster," wrote former top Hong Kong security official Regina Ip in a recent editorial in the state-run China Daily.
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Almost every scene of this opening set to Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over" would be worth writing about, but the one that gave me pause is a shot of Elizabeth in the shower, wearily scrubbing off yet another sexual encounter in the name of the Motherland.
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Pentagon chiefs and members of Congress are ever more publicly sounding the alarm about China's intentions towards Taiwan, the democratic island of 24m people that America calls an ally but China claims as its own, saying it must be united with the motherland, by force if necessary.
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Xinhua said You expressed the hope "that people in religious circles can inherit and carry forward the fine traditions to love the motherland and their faith, lead religious believers to follow the right faith and abide by the law and contribute to the healthy development of Islam".
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Six of its journalists, including investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, have been murdered since 2000, and earlier this month somebody sent a funeral wreath and a severed sheep's head to the newspaper's office with a note calling one of its reporters, Denis Korotkov, "a traitor to the motherland".
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"MY MOTHERLAND is the Soviet Union," reads a sentence written in cursive script in one of the exercise books scattered on the floor of an abandoned school in Pripyat, a Soviet ghost town next to the Chernobyl nuclear power station, which blew up on April 26th 1986.
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"The characters pushed them to work harder, flying into the sky and defending our motherland," Mr. Ji said in a telephone interview from Tonghua, in the northeastern province of Jilin, where he was principal of a school for public security officials from 1982 until his retirement.
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After discovering Persian hip-hop on the internet, though, I gained my first insight into a whole new world: although I'd regularly visited Iran since I was a child, this was a side of my motherland I'd never previously been able to access or even knew existed.
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"I am just upset that the government of my motherland didn't want to do the same thing earlier," she said Adam Bodnar, Poland's government ombudsman, called the European court ruling a "victory of civil society" that he hoped would lead to a restoration of judicial independence.
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Which is where "There She Goes" excels, in a way you might expect from a show whose executive producers include Sharon Horgan of "Catastrophe" and "Motherland" fame: by shining a light on a perhaps more difficult kind of parenting without turning it into overly sentimentalized pablum.
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Shakar Mujukian, publisher of The Hye-Phen — a zine by and about queer and trans Armenians who, as he puts it, often "feel as ignored and invisible as their motherland" — told me via email that just because technology can fully replace something doesn't mean it should.
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The pomp and circumstance surrounding the anniversary underscored the heavy symbolism China invests in Macau and Hong Kong: territories that it feels were humiliatingly carved off by Western imperial powers and only returned to their rightful place in the motherland under the rule of the Communist Party.
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They now know that a group of Mujahideen in Afghanistan died from "hemorrhagic fever"; consequently, they've been forced to consider that the virus they got from William and sent back to the motherland was about much more than the Russians protecting themselves after a nuclear attack.
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As much of an affront as this is to the food artisans of Reggiano, ignorance—combined with well-branded "Italian" products with little or no real connection to the motherland—have been hurting Italy's agricultural sector, to the tune of $18 billion, according to some estimates.
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In 1985 Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president for a second term, Margaret Thatcher entered the sixth year of her premiership and Mikhail Gorbachev took over as general secretary of the Communist Party, pledging to "do everything for our Soviet motherland to become still more rich and powerful".
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Dealing a multi-faceted blow to Western paranoia and dextrously touching on issues within her motherland of Iran (where the video was illegally filmed), it slid right in at #35 on Noisey's 100 Best Songs of 2016 list, so if you missed it then honestly where have you been?
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"I declare to the whole world and all of China that I am determined to lead the people of Taiwan province to reunify with our motherland," said Mr. Wei, 60, an intense man with close-cropped hair and an unflinching stare, in an interview at the converted temple.
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Standing before the prominently displayed dates 1389 and 1989, he then delivered a speech whose constant references to dignity and humiliation, motherland and treason, bravery and suffering, pride and shame were clearly designed to provoke a time-collapsed modern re-enactment of the ancient animosity between Christians and Muslims.
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Standing before the prominently displayed dates 1389 and 1989, he then delivered a speech whose constant references to dignity and humiliation, motherland and treason, bravery and suffering, pride and shame were clearly designed to provoke a time-collapsed modern re-enactment of the ancient animosity between Christians and Muslims.
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His paintings, such as "Zameen" ("Land," 71970) and "Arjuna with Chariot (Mahabharta 15)" (1971), and his film, Through the Eyes of a Painter (1967), earned him local praise and international acclaim for his personal interpretation of the "beloved motherland" of India and representation of the common Indian man.
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" Changhong Electric, a major home appliance group listed as a partner on NBA China's website, said that it felt "strong indignation to Morey's indifferent attitude and refusal to apologize," while Chinese sportswear giant Anta declared that it "firmly opposes and resists all acts that harm the interests of the motherland.
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"The one lie that they could continue telling themselves was that all this was somehow worth it, because at least the military structure was intact and they were defending the socialist motherland," Mr. Anderson said of the Soviet Union in an interview with the National Security Archive for CNN in 1997.
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On that occasion, President Xi Jinping reiterated China's standing demand that Taiwan accept reunification with the "motherland" under the "one country, two systems" principle — the same principle that currently governs Hong Kong's relationship with Beijing and that has been roundly discredited by the sight of the city in near-full revolt.
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The flags will fly again at the anniversary celebrations, and Hong Kong people will get a further reminder of their place when the territory's next leader is sworn in, promising to ai guo, ai gang—love the motherland and love Hong Kong (in that order, and in Mandarin—not the local Cantonese).
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"This year is the 70th anniversary of the founding of new China, to that end Tencent has done much pre-planning and made investments to the theme of 'me and my motherland' ... to create products reflective of the current era," Steven Ma, Tencent's senior vice president, said on the sidelines of the conference.
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To us, though, it appears like these two are more than just friends -- and if that's the case, you can't really blame TG. In the wake of splitting up, word has it Joe's already been on a few dates himself in the motherland ... so obviously, it's NBD if Teresa did the same.
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During a visit to China in April 2016, the Taipei-based Alliance for the Reunification of China was "greatly praised" by a senior Chinese official for "advancing the great work of motherland reunification," according to minutes from the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League, one of the few nominally independent political groups permitted in China.
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It's no mistake that episode is the same one in which Elizabeth bucks protocol to visit her dying mother in Berlin, to say goodbye but also to introduce her daughter (and fledgling protégé) Paige, to forge an in-the-flesh matriarchal line among the women that will further bind them all to the motherland.
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This is where you expect the story to take a familiar turn: A smart Muslim kid from a rough neighborhood in the West, sent back to the motherland in an attempt to strengthen his roots, instead becomes disillusioned and lost between two identities before he finds solace and purpose in religious fundamentalism and jihad. Right?
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His death was announced by Russia's foreign intelligence service, known as the S.V.R., a successor agency of the K.G.B. "General Drozdov devoted his life to serving the Motherland and enhancing the country's national security," President Vladimir V. Putin, who was a lieutenant colonel in the K.G.B., said in a statement on the Kremlin's website.
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As the daughter of Morrocan Jewish immigrants to Canada who had to spend every other Saturday afternoon drinking copious amounts of mint tea at my great-grandmother's house, and missed many birthday parties in the process, I related to the pressures faced by Jess as she tried to navigate customs and traditions brought over from the motherland, while feeling the pull of assimilation from her new friends.
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With all its reminders of the danger of Le Pen and what he represents and the evils of the period he's nostalgic for, all its warnings about history repeating itself—"honor, the motherland, conquest and colonies / we already know where that stupid shit leads," says Kool Shen—"Plus jamais ça" was doomed to constant relevance as French electoral history repeated itself over and over.
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