| Zvezda Memorandum — Permanent Lunar Base Programme (1965) | technical-report | era-i | 1965 ES | Classified Interdepartmental Council memo proposing three-phase Zvezda lunar base programme; first identification of helium-3 as strategic lunar resource |
| Neporozhny Memo — Strategic Reorientation of Soviet Energy | technical-report | era-i | 1990 ES | Classified memo to Gorbachev proposing Energy Independence Fund and three-phase thorium programme |
| TASS: BN-T1 First Criticality | news-report | era-i | 1998 ES | Soviet BN-T1 thorium reactor achieves sustained criticality at FEI Obninsk |
| Personal Log — Dr. T. I. Bekova, March 1998 | personal-log | era-i | 1998 ES | Firsthand account of BN-T1 criticality night and aftermath |
| BN-T1 First-Cycle Operational Data — Morozov et al. | academic-paper | era-i | 1999 ES | FEI/Tsinghua 14-month performance report; near-breeder conversion ratio confirmed |
| Nauka dlya vsekh: What’s a Thorium Reactor? (1999) | news-report | era-i | 1999 ES | Popular science explainer of BN-T1 thorium breeder; first public account of the programme to a general Soviet readership |
| Reuters: Cuba’s Soviet-Built Thorium Plant Nears Full Output | news-report | era-i | 2013 ES | Santa Cruz plant (Cienfuegos, 1,200 MWe) nears full operation; first full-scale Soviet thorium export |
| NYT: Ukraine’s President Flees; Moscow Calls It a Coup | news-report | era-i | 2014 ES | Euromaidan; Yanukovych removed; Soviet Union refuses to recognise transitional government |
| TASS: Assad Arrives in Moscow; Kremlin Confirms Humanitarian Asylum | news-report | era-i | 2015 ES | Assad resigns Syrian presidency; Soviet Union grants asylum; Tartus and Hmeimim bases remain operational |
| BBC: ‘They Came Before Dawn’ — The Killing of Syria’s Alawites | news-report | era-i | 2015 ES | Alawite sectarian massacres (38k–52k dead per UN); Soviet bases as refugee refuge; UN Security Council deadlock |
| KAN: Baram on the Soviet-Iranian Thorium Deal | news-report | era-i | 2015 ES | Israeli Defence Minister Baram television interview; Soviet-Iranian thorium deal closes Israeli military option |
| Eilon, The Reactor and the Missile, Ch. 4 — The Window That Closed | book-summary | era-i | 2017 ES | Israeli strategic analysis of the Iran-Soviet deal: drone exchange, thorium as geopolitical instrument |
| Reuters: China, North Korea Deploying Forces in Support of Soviet Ukraine Operation, NATO Confirms | news-report | era-i | 2016 ES | NATO confirms Chinese military personnel and North Korean forces operating alongside Soviet forces in Ukraine; authoritarian coalition takes shape |
| AP: NATO Allies Struggle for Unified Response as China Defends Ukraine Role | news-report | era-i | 2016 ES | NATO emergency session fails to unify; Beijing escalates rhetoric accusing NATO of instigating Maidan; North Korea assessed as using conflict as live-fire exercise |
| Xinhua: China Announces Tiangong Orbital Station; Lunar Programme to Follow | news-report | era-i | 2017 ES | CNSA announces Tiangong station (completion 2020); lunar programme mid-2030s target; excluded from ISS; Roscosmos/Mir coordination discussions |
| NPC: Downstream Integration Programme — Phase One Declaration | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2016 ES | Iran announces 15-year pivot from crude exports to petrochemical manufacturing; ITEA thorium electricity as cost advantage; Sinopec/ChemChina as construction partners; Japan/South Korea/India assessing imports |
| Nikkei Asia: Iran’s Petrochemical Pivot Draws Japanese Industry Interest | news-report | era-i | 2016 ES | Japanese METI in early discussions on Iranian petrochemicals; 30–45% price advantage; China construction role; US secondary sanctions complication; South Korea and India also assessing |
| MEiE: National Thorium Programme — Phase Three Commissioning Announcement | technical-report | era-i | 2018 ES | Ministry of Energy announces 15 stations operational, 18,400 MWe, 31.4% of national grid; 2025 target to be revised upward; coal/oil/RBMK decommissioning; surplus export agreements |
| TOI: New Delhi Summit Collapses as Ukraine Rejects Soviet Framework | news-report | era-i | 2019 ES | Indian-mediated peace summit fails after Ukraine rejects Soviet territorial framework; analysts describe Kovalenko’s maximalist position as politically necessary and militarily unsupportable |
| Xinhua: Kashgar Bus Bombing and PLA Operations in Xinjiang | news-report | era-i | 2018 ES | ETIM-linked separatists bomb Kashgar bus and seize southern Xinjiang districts; PLA responds with overwhelming force; three US citizens killed; Lu Kang notes timing with Ukraine commitment |
| Doyle, The Unstoppable China Ch. 7 — Twenty-One Days in Xinjiang | book-summary | era-i | 2020 ES | Security analyst’s assessment of Xinjiang operation as strategic turning point; diversion thesis; American silence after deaths of US citizens |
| Volkov, The Burning Soil — Thorium and the Making of a New Energy Order (excerpts) | book-summary | era-i | 2029 ES | FEI Deputy Director’s comprehensive account: export model (Cuba, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh), Western energy policy critique, lunar He-3 prospect confirmed by Chang’e-8 |
| Osei, Left at the Airlock — How America Locked Itself Out of Space (excerpts) | book-summary | era-i | 2031 ES | Former NASA JPL Senior Mission Architect’s institutional critique of American space policy from the Wolf Amendment (2011) through the first Chinese crewed lunar landing (2029); argues compounded constraint produced structural divergence |
| IARC: World Cancer Day 2026 — Joint Statement | news-report | era-i | 2026 ES | WHO and IARC announce global 5-year cancer survival reaches 70%; US withdrawal noted |
| INCRI: IMIP-7 Phase III Trial Results | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2026 ES | Iranian metabolic immunotherapy protocol achieves 38.7% 24-month survival in treatment-resistant pancreatic cancer; research gatekeeping statement |
| The Lancet Editorial: IMIP-7 Results | academic-paper | era-i | 2026 ES | Editorial on IMIP-7 data, structural incentives in oncology research, and independent review commissioned |
| CNSA: Chang’e-10 Crewed Lunar Landing Mission Announcement (2029) | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2029 ES | First crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17; Shackleton Crater rim; 14.7 kg samples returned; He-3 spectrometer deployed |
| The Atlantic: The Moon Doesn’t Care Who Wins (2030) | news-report | era-i | 2030 ES | Feature analysing He-3 resource geopolitics; Chang’e programme as industrial site survey; Western institutional failure to respond |
| ICSAI Press Release: RAZUM Open Weight Release (2024) | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2024 ES | Soviet Academy ICSAI announces open weight release of RAZUM-7B and RAZUM-70B language models; scientific AI focus; MTSS orbital accelerator cluster; Western market disruption |
| Xinhua: China Confirms Sub-5nm Semiconductor Parity (2026) | news-report | era-i | 2026 ES | Chinese Ministry of Industry confirms domestic sub-5nm manufacturing capability; MTSS Jingwei Laboratory research credited with key advances |
| Reuters: China Claims Sub-5nm Chip Breakthrough (2026) | news-report | era-i | 2026 ES | Western press coverage of China’s semiconductor announcement; market reaction; analyst divided assessment |
| Sorokina et al.: Cortical Organoid Spatial Navigation Study (2026) | academic-paper | era-i | 2026 ES | Human cortical organoids demonstrate goal-directed spatial navigation at 81.2% success rate; MTSS-cultured organoids outperform ground controls; substrate-independent cognition thesis |
| ScienceDaily: Organoid Navigation Coverage (2026) | news-report | era-i | 2026 ES | Popular science coverage of Sorokina et al. study; ethical implications for organoid research |
| CRS: Artemis Lunar Surface Outpost Assessment (2036) | technical-report | era-i | 2036 ES | US Congressional Research Service comparative assessment of ALSO, Zvezda, and Guanghan; documents He-3 extraction gap; Kurchatov T-22 D-He3 confinement milestone |
| Der Spiegel: Vienna Accords End Six Years of Conflict (2020) | news-report | era-i | 2020 ES | Vienna Accords conclude Ukraine War; Soviet Union assumes administration of east, south, and Kyiv; rump state established in Lviv with EU integration package |
| Al Jazeera: Two Palestinians Killed Over Jerusalem Holy Site Closures (2027) | news-report | era-i | 2027 ES | Israel indefinitely closes Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Al-Aqsa; two Palestinians killed in protests; unprecedented international backlash |
| Al Jazeera: US Congress Advances American-Israeli Military Integration Plan (2028) | news-report | era-i | 2028 ES | House Armed Services Committee advances Section 224 of FY2028 NDAA establishing US-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative; executive agent for joint R&D, shared production, systems integration; Netanyahu signals end of cash aid dependency |
| Middle East Eye: The Jerusalem Intifada (2028) | news-report | era-i | 2028 ES | Yousef Haddad killed holding Jerusalem Cross flag; coordinated attacks on holy site cordons; three-front escalation |
| Calloway, The Great Uncoupling — Foreign Affairs Review (2034) | book-summary | era-i | 2034 ES | AIPAC’s primary threat model documented from 2024 threshold moment through 2030–2032 cycle collapse; Jerusalem Intifada and generational shift |
| IRNA: Minab School Bombing (2032) | news-report | era-i | 2032 ES | Israeli airstrike destroys Shahid Motahhari school; 106 killed; Khamenei visits rubble, addresses nation; Operation Truthful Promise III |
| RT: Scott Ritter — The Arithmetic of Defeat (2029) | news-report | era-i | 2029 ES | Former UN weapons inspector synthesises asymmetric cost warfare thesis; US interceptor depletion terminal; Soviet/Chinese strategic patience; predicts 3–4 more years of attrition |
| Fars News: How Iranian Fiber-Optic Drones Are Holding the Litani Line (2029) | news-report | era-i | 2029 ES | Iranian Kaviyan-3 fiber-optic FPV drone; $800/unit, immune to EW via 4km optical fibre spool; 140 Israeli vehicles destroyed; Litani River stalemate; civilian supply chain unsanctionable |
| Reuters: Iranian Drone Swarms Strike U.S. Bases Across Middle East (2028) | news-report | era-i | 2028 ES | IRGC-coordinated drone swarms destroy AN/TPY-2 radar and Patriot battery at US bases; 20Kdronevs3.8M interceptor cost asymmetry; US interceptor burn rate 3x domestic production |
| Channel 12: IDF Spokesperson Interview (2032) | news-report | era-i | 2032 ES | Navon declines to confirm/deny Minab strike; states objective is ‘end of Islamic Republic’; 180 US co-sponsors reached |
| ICSAI Bulletin: Severgrad Computational Complex Commissioning (2025) | corporate-announcement | era-i | 2025 ES | Soviet AI infrastructure city at 68°N; 2.4 EF; thorium reactor; PUE 1.06; RAZUM-Next; UASAL |