Barack Obama is a man you can talk about for hours. Becoming the first black president in the history of the United States of America, this prominent politician gained the status of a legend during his lifetime.

Today, the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, is called one of the most popular figures in world politics, because he is one of the few people who managed to maintain a human appearance even when he reached the very heights of world politics.

Childhood of Barack Obama. Education

Barack Hussein Obama II was born in the warm and sunny city of Honolulu, the only metropolis Hawaiian Islands. His father, a native of the Kenyan village of Kanyadyang, entered the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1959 to study economics. During his studies, he met an anthropology student, a white American named Stanley Ann Dunham, the mother of the future president. It is noteworthy that the acquaintance took place at optional courses in the Russian language.


No less interesting is the fact that before his marriage to Denham, he was already married to a Kenyan Keise Aoko, with whom he had two children - a son, Malik, and a daughter, Aumu. In 1959, he left his family and flew to the States.


Barack Hussein Obama Jr was born in August 1961. The new mother decided to drop out of school, while the father, on the contrary, took up his studies, graduated from the University of Hawaii and, when the youngest Obama was not even three years old, left the family to continue his studies at Harvard. For some time, Barack Obama's parents still maintained relations, but some time later, Obama Sr. left the United States of America altogether in order to take a high post in the administrative apparatus of Kenya.


Subsequently, the president recalled that very few memories of his real father were stored in his memory - he spent only one month with him at the age of 10. Then Barack Obama Sr., who briefly visited the States, gave his son the first basketball in his life and took him to the first jazz concert. Both have become an integral part of the boy's hobbies, carried over into adulthood. Many years later, Barack Obama outlined the memories of his childhood in the biographical book Dreams of My Father.


Unfortunately, the life of Barack Obama's father was tragically cut short at the age of 47. Back in the early 70s, he got into an accident, did not die, but lost both legs, and then his job. This knocked the man down; he began to drink and sank into poverty. In 1982, he remarried, the couple had a son, and the life of Obama Sr. began to improve. But six months after the birth of baby George, he again had an accident - this time ending fatally.


Well, Ann Dunham, three years after breaking up with Obama, met new love– Lolo Sutoro, a student from Indonesia. He replaced Barak's father. As a result of this union, the younger sister of the future president, Maya, was born. Some time later, the whole family moved to the historical homeland of their stepfather - to Jakarta (Indonesia), where most of the childhood of the future leader of America passed.


In the Indonesian capital, Obama Jr. attended one of the comprehensive schools until the fourth grade. After that, he again moved to the Hawaiian Islands, to his mother's parents, who sent him to the prestigious Panehou private school. IN school years he was the star of the youth basketball team and was an excellent student. He received a certificate with the highest score in 1979. In 2008, the president publicly admitted that he had abused marijuana at school, tried cocaine and alcohol.


During those years, he, like two other black students at the school, suffered from constant racist comments about him. “Once I suddenly realized that everything in this world was created for whites. Even Santa - and that white one! I stood at the mirror for a long time and thought what was wrong with me, ”Obama shared in his memoirs.

Kenyan family of Barack Obama

After graduating from high school, Barak entered Los Angeles' Occidental College, and two years later transferred to Columbia University, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. Until 1985, he worked in the business sector, then moved to Chicago, where he began his career as a lawyer. For several years in a row, he worked with the cases of residents of disadvantaged areas. In 1989, he moved to one of the largest US law firms, Sidley Austin.


In 1988, Barack Obama took up his studies again - he decided to get a second degree at Harvard University. Here he studied law while also heading the university newspaper, the Harvard Law Review. It is quite remarkable that no African American has ever held this post before.

Political career of Barack Obama

Already during this period, Barack Obama has established himself as a notorious fighter for equality. With these ideals, he went into politics. In the early nineties, he joined the ranks of the Democratic Party, and already in 1997 he was elected as an Illinois state senator. After 9/11, Barack Obama was one of the most active opponents of George W. Bush and his decision to send troops to Iraq. He also opposed the creation of the North American Free Trade Area. As for the social sphere, one of the main themes in Obama's political doctrine was support for low-income families and universal health insurance for the population.


In 2005, after an unsuccessful attempt in 2000, Barack Obama took office in the US federal Senate. From that moment on, he became one of the leading figures in the political structure of the United States of America. In February 2007, Barack Obama announced his intention to run for President of the United States. Hillary Clinton became his main competitor for the title of the main Democratic candidate.


As a result, she gave in to Obama and provided him with possible support throughout his election campaign. Ordinary people supported Obama with the dollar - about $58 million in donations were collected as part of the presidential campaign. Most of the money belonged to middle-class Americans.


The new "People's President" moved forward with the slogan "Yes We Can" and with huge support common people. It is noteworthy that his main opponent, John McCain, relied mainly on Americans with high incomes.


On the presidential elections On November 4, 2008, Obama defeated Republican candidate John McCain, receiving 52.9% of the vote against 45.7% for McCain. 338 out of 538 electors voted for Barack Obama. On January 20, 2009, a Democrat, liberal and the first African-American president in US history occupied the Oval Room of the White House. His associate, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, became vice president.

44th US President Barack Obama

In the first hundred days of his presidency, Obama and his team managed to adopt a number of important innovations. Obama convinced Congress to expand the scope of children's health insurance and pay attention to discrimination against women in pay. $ 787 billion was invested in the short-term US economy, first of all, the banking market and the auto industry received injections. Obama has proposed tax cuts for unions, small businesses, and first-time homebuyers. The President not only lifted the ban on stem cell development, but also allocated $3.5 trillion for further research.


It was at the suggestion of Obama that the Senate adopted an anti-crisis bill aimed at supporting the American economy, as well as a fateful decision to withdraw troops from Iraq. In addition, Obama passed the Obamacare health care reform, which provided for mandatory health insurance for every US citizen. He ordered the closure of the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison and signed a decree banning crippling interrogation techniques.


Obama tried to improve US foreign policy relations with European countries, China, Russia, made attempts to dialogue with Iran, Venezuela and Cuba. The thaw in relations with Cuba occurred even before Fidel Castro's death, to the annoyance of Republicans who felt the rapprochement was premature. For all peacekeeping efforts in 2009, Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.


By the way, Russia became the 14th country that Obama visited in the first year of his presidency. And, apparently, he started a good relationship with his Russian "colleague" Dmitry Medvedev.

Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama eat hamburgers

In the spring of 2011, Obama announced his desire to be re-elected as leader of the United States of America. This time, the African American president faced off against Mitt Romney and once again secured his seat in the Oval Office for the next 4 years. According to the results of the popular vote, he received 51.1% of the vote, 332 electors gave their votes to Obama.


The biggest mistake in the 8 years of his presidency, Barack Obama considers the invasion of Libya. The greatest merit is the salvation of America from a protracted economic crisis that could result in a new Great Depression.

Barack Obama's personal life

With my charming wife Michelle Obama (nee LaVon Robinson) he met during an internship at the Sidley Austin law firm in the late 80s. It is noteworthy that at first Michelle, a lively lawyer, was not at all interested in him from a love point of view, although she was never bored with him and always had something to talk about. For several months, Barack sought her favor. Bouquets, sweets, romantic confessions - everything was in vain. But when Michelle heard his fiery speech, which he delivered to black teenagers from the Chicago slums, she realized that she could no longer deny her feelings.


Barack and Michelle Obama got married on October 3, 1992. After the ceremony, the newlyweds went to Kenya to visit the groom's relatives. The next five years, the life of the young spouses was cloudless, until their eldest daughter Malia was born in 1998. As soon as Michelle went on maternity leave, it turned out that Barak's social and political activities did not allow him to support his family at a decent level. “We were as poor as church mice,” Michel recalled these years. Barak refused to work in his specialty, although she would bring a huge income to the family, claiming that she does not see herself anywhere except in politics.

BARACK

BARACK

1. Temporary wooden barracks. On construction railway workers live in barracks.

2. Separate hospital building, usually for contagious patients (spec.). Typhoid barrack.


Dictionary Ushakov. D.N. Ushakov. 1935-1940.


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    barrack- a m. baraque f., germ. Spanish barraca. 1. Light building for soldiers, for the sick (in the camp, in the ramparts). Sl. 18. Every day a great number of sick sailors are carried to the barracks. MYFF 9 135. Tents, barracks (or huts) are also decently in ... ... Historical Dictionary of Gallicisms of the Russian Language

    - (male) Barak means lightning. Barak in the Tanakh is the husband of the great prophetess Dvora (See Shoftim 4). Male Hebrew names. Dictionary of meanings.. BARAK A thoroughbred hunting dog with a long and soft wool. It was given with a wish to a born boy ... ... Dictionary of personal names

    Baraka, m. [fr. baraque]. 1. Temporary wooden barracks. On the construction of the railway, workers live in barracks. 2. (historical) A separate hospital building, usually for contagious patients (special). Typhoid barrack. Big Dictionary foreign words.… … Dictionary of foreign words of the Russian language

    Male, French, more used pl. barracks, booths, huts, temporary, light structures for accommodating troops or workers. | In asters. and sar. gully pronounce barak, naming the ravines. Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary. IN AND. Dal. 1863 1866 ... Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary

    Joseph (1833-1883) Czech writer, who played an important role in the development of national identity; together with Galk, he founded the literary "school of epigones", was the editor of the organ of this school "Maj". B. is also one of the founders of the Czech theater. ... ... Literary Encyclopedia

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    Knows who, what. Arch. Unclear, unknown. SRNG 11, 312. Bad hut. Perm., Prikam. Psychiatric hospital. MFS, 10; SGPO, 32. Heal to the barracks. Jarg. they say Go home. BSRG, 51 ... Big dictionary of Russian sayings

    BARAK, a, husband. A building of light construction intended for temporary housing. | adj. barracks, oh, oh. Barrack type house. Explanatory dictionary of Ozhegov. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. 1949 1992 ... Explanatory dictionary of Ozhegov

    - "BARAK", Russia Germany, All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company / DAR (St. Petersburg), 1999, color, 111 min. Retrodrama. Based on Viktor Petrov's short story "Olga Ledokhod". Time and place of action 1953, the closed Ural town of Satka, another construction site of the century. The characters in the film are... Cinema Encyclopedia

    barrack- one or two-story building intended for living, with shared kitchen and a sanitary unit, as a rule, wooden, designed for a short service life of 10-20 years ... Source: Order of the Ministry of Zemstroy of the Russian Federation dated 08/04/1998 N 37 (as amended on 09/04/2000) About ... ... Official terminology

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Barack Obama, whose biography is closely connected with politics, is the first black president in US history. Having broken great amount various conventions, this man became a real legend during his lifetime.

An outstanding politician has a cold mind and a warm heart. He is the forty-fourth president of the United States. Barack Obama became president in 2009. Prior to his election as president, he served as a senator from american state Illinois. Barack Obama passed a difficult path of formation in his life. short biography an outstanding politician will be of interest to many readers.

Childhood

A well-known politician of our time was born in 1961 in Honolulu. This sunny and warm city is the only metropolis in the Hawaiian Islands. Barack Obama's birthday is August 4th.

The meeting of the boy's parents took place at the University of Hawaii. Barack's father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., was a black Kenyan who came to the US to receive higher education at the University of Hawaii. Mother current president- Stanley Annie Dunham. This white American studied at the same educational institution anthropology.

When his son was still an infant, Obama Sr. left for Harvard to continue his studies. Due to financial difficulties, the family did not follow him. For a while, Barack's parents maintained a relationship. However, when the son reached the age of two, Obama Sr. alone left the United States. He moved to live in Kenya, where he was offered the position of an economist in the government apparatus. He filed for divorce from his wife.

New family

Barack Obama spent most of his life without a father. His only support was his mother. When her son was six years old, Annie Dunham remarried. Her new chosen one was again a foreign student. The birthplace of her second husband, Lolo Sutoro, was Indonesia. Soon came into being stepsister Baraka - Maya. After some time, the whole family went to their stepfather's homeland - to Indonesia. There the children's odes of the future president of America passed.

Primary education

While in Jakarta, where the family lived, the boy visited general education school. He studied there until the fourth grade. Then Obama Jr. returned to Hawaii. There he lived with his mother's parents. In the Hawaiian Islands future president continued his education in private school. It was the prestigious Panehow. is still proud of its graduates, among which famous actors and athletes. Not the last place in this list is occupied by Barack Obama.
While studying at school, the boy was fond of basketball. The team he was on won the state championship in 1979.

Many years later, childhood memories are reflected in a book written by Barack Obama. A brief biography and the main stages in the formation of the current president were outlined in a work called "Dreams of my father."

Higher education

After graduating from school in 1979, the future president moved from the Hawaiian Islands to Los Angeles. Here he continued his education, enrolling in Western College. However, his studies were short-lived. Soon Obama changed Los Angeles to New York. In the largest metropolis in the United States, the future politician decided to continue his education at Columbia University.

It was here that the career of an outstanding politician, who is now Barack Obama, began. His biography as public figure, who later became president, traces his origins to the period of work in an international business corporation. Here he got the position of editor in the department dealing with financial information.

Carier start

After receiving a diploma from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree, Barack moved to Chicago. In this metropolis, he served as a public organizer in the most disadvantaged areas. It was at this job that Barak realized the need for changes in politics and legislation, which, in his opinion, should have improved the lives of ordinary people.

Getting a legal education

In 1988, the future politician decided to continue his studies. He enrolled in Law School while a student, Obama worked as an editor for the university newspaper. He was the first African American to be entrusted with the post. In 1990, the New York Times mentioned him. She spoke in her news about the first black president at the Harvard Lawyers' Club. It was the first time an African American had taken the post in the one hundred and four years of the Club's existence.

Later career

Upon graduation, the future politician returned back to Chicago. Here Barack Obama, whose biography continued in the legal field, was engaged in the defense of victims of discrimination in court. In addition, the future president taught lessons at the School of Law at the University of Chicago, worked at the headquarters of the Democratic Party.

He raised suffrage issues and collaborated with a small law firm.

Barack Obama is best known as an anti-racialist, liberal, and supporter of a system that would allow for universal health insurance.

Senator position

Already in the early 90s, the future president was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1996, Barack Obama becomes the Illinois state senator. His biography as a major political figure began with the unification of the work of the Republican and Democratic parties, which are in constant confrontation. How many years was Barack Obama destined to be in this post? The future president was a senator for eight years. This was the period from 1997 to 2004. It was during these years that Obama advocated the withdrawal of troops from Iraqi territory and was an opponent of the creation of the North American zone, in which it was planned to allow free trade. One of the main directions in the political doctrine of the politician is support for low-income families.

Seat in the United States Senate

In 2004, Barack Obama's political career took its toll. further development. He began the fight for a seat in the US Senate from Illinois. The chances of success have increased significantly after his Republican opponent Jack Ryan withdrew his candidacy in connection with the scandalous accusations made after his

On July 29, 2004, while participating in the election race, the prominent politician delivered a speech in which he addressed the National Congress of the Democratic Party. Barack Obama's speech was televised. It was this speech that brought the future president wide popularity in the country. In his address, Obama called on the entire nation to the origins of American society. He expressed the hope that the United States would be given the status of a country of great opportunities, which he illustrated by the examples of his father's life and his own biography.

The speech played an important role. The victory in the elections to the Senate was won by a significant margin. Obama beat Republican Alan Keyes. The beginning of his duties in the Senate fell on January 2005. It is worth saying that in the history of the United States, Barack Obama became the fifth black senator. The future president was included in several committees at once that dealt with problems environment, community service, veterans affairs and foreign affairs.

As before, Obama involved the Republicans in solving a number of issues. Together with them, he worked on legislative acts to make government activities more transparent. During this period, the future US president visited Russia for the first time. The purpose of his trip was to discuss issues of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Obama's vote in the Senate was generally consistent with the position of the liberal Democratic Party. During this period, the politician paid great attention to the direction in the development of alternative energy sources.

Presidential elections

How many years did it take Barack Obama to become one of Washington's most visible politicians? By the fall of 2006, observers were highly appreciative of his chances of winning. By the beginning of 2007, Obama was already second in the list of Democratic Party favorites after Hillary Clinton. In January, he created an evaluation committee. This was the initial stage of participation in the presidential elections. In February 2007, fifteen percent of Democrats were ready to vote for Barack Obama, and forty-three percent for Hillary Clinton. In early June of the same year, the gap narrowed significantly. Clinton was able to collect only three percent of the vote more.

The emphasis in the campaign speeches future President Barack Obama did on political and economic issues. As before, he promoted the idea of ​​withdrawing troops from Iraq. Obama's speeches also contained various proposals that were supposed to support the existence of the least wealthy segments of the American population.
These ideas of the presidential candidate soon received a response from the people of the country.

A special fund was set up to conduct the election campaign, which received fifty-eight million dollars. Moreover, almost a third of this amount was made up of donations from ordinary Americans. Such support from the common population allowed Obama to completely abandon the budgetary financing of his participation in the company. The result of the US presidential election was the victory of an outstanding black politician.

high post

On January 20, 2007, a liberal, Democrat and the first African-American president in US history occupied the Oval Hall in the White House. Barack Obama was forty-five at the time.

As president prominent figure spent whole line global reforms that affected the economic and political life of the United States. It was with his participation that the Senate passed the anti-crisis bill. The main provisions of this document contained a number of measures to support the country's economy. In addition, a decision was made to withdraw American troops from Iraq. Obama introduced health care reform and passed a series of major laws.

New election

Barack Obama's first term as president expired in 2011. Before his end, he announced his decision to take part in a new campaign for a seat in the White House.
The Americans elected Obama for a second term. At the same time, he was head and shoulders above his competitors.

The majority of the population of all states of the country voted for the first black president of America. In his campaign speeches, Obama expressed regret about the economic situation that has developed in the United States. However, he assured his constituents that the bulk of the work had not yet been done.

The bad economic situation in the country was the main trump card of his rival - Romney. He urged voters to vote for real change. Observers believed the candidates' results would be close, and lawyers on both sides were already preparing for legal proceedings. However, this did not happen. determined Obama's victory. It was its population that gave the number of votes necessary for Barak's victory. The election results were also recognized by Romney's supporters, which is important.

Personal life

The current president of America is married. Barack Obama's wife is practicing lawyer Michelle Obama (Robinson before marriage). Their marriage took place in 1992. In America, the family of Michelle and Barack is considered exemplary. The impeccability of the spouse plays positive role in the reputation of the head of state.

Michelle is an exceptional woman. She fully supports her husband and has a subtle sense of style. Michelle helps her husband in every possible way and walks with him through life side by side. She became Obama's chief adviser. Barak himself does not hide this. He speaks openly about most he certainly discusses important political matters with his wife. Michel is engaged in the image of her husband and is directly involved in writing his political speeches. In 2010, according to Forbes magazine, she was recognized as the most influential woman on our planet.

The Obama family has two daughters. The eldest Malia Ann was born in 1998. Three years later, she had a younger sister, Natasha.

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barrack

Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Vladimir Dal

barrack

m. French, more common. pl. barracks, booths, huts, temporary, light structures for accommodating troops or workers.

In asters. and sar. gully pronounce barak, naming the ravines.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. D.N. Ushakov

barrack

barracks, m. (fr. baraque).

    Temporary wooden barracks. On the construction of the railway, workers live in barracks.

    Separate hospital building, usually for contagious patients (spec.). Typhoid barrack.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova.

barrack

A, m. A building of light construction intended for temporary housing.

adj. barracks, th, th. Barracks' house.

New explanatory and derivational dictionary of the Russian language, T. F. Efremova.

barrack

    A light building, usually of a barracks type, used as temporary housing for workers, military personnel, etc.

    obsolete Separate hospital building or hospital for infectious patients.

barrack

barrack- temporary, quickly erected, cheap structure. As a rule, one-story and wooden. Until the end of the 17th century in France, only temporary cavalry barracks were called barracks, later various temporary barracks.

During the Sevastopol defense, according to the idea of ​​​​S.P. Botkin, hospital barracks were arranged; the idea turned out to be successful in sanitary terms, and to late XIX centuries, hospitals arranged according to the barrack system began to spread. Barracks were also set up in prisoner-of-war camps, and in the 20th century in concentration camps.

Barrack (disambiguation)

barrack:

  • A barrack is a rapidly erected temporary structure.
  • Barak - 188th Armored Brigade armored forces Israel.
  • Barak is an Israeli ship-based air defense system.
  • Barak - drama by Valery Ogorodnikov (Russia - Germany, 1999).

Barak (Kyrgyzstan)

barrack- rural government with total area about 4 km, which is the largest exclave of the Kyrgyz Republic. From 0.6 to 1.25 thousand people permanently live on the territory of the exclave, the majority (60%) of whom are ethnic Kyrgyz, also Uzbeks. There is a school in the village with 165 pupils.

In administrative terms, the village of Barak belongs to the rural administration, Kara-Suu district, Osh region of the Kyrgyz Republic. Geographically, it is surrounded on all sides by the Kurgantepa district of the Andijan region of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It is separated from the main territory of Kyrgyzstan by a strip 1.5 km wide. The inhabitants of the exclave are experiencing great difficulties when crossing the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state border due to the actions of the Uzbek border service, the blockade of the exclave by the Uzbek authorities is forcing residents to leave this territory. As a result of the influx of Uzbek refugees on June 17, 2010 (in connection with the Second Osh events), 250 Kyrgyz were forced to leave Barak.

Barak (Kazakh sultan)

barak sultan(,? - 1750) - Sultan of the Younger Zhuz, son of Tursun Khan, who owned cities on the river. Syrdarya.

barrack (anti-aircraft missile system)

barrack (- lightning) is an Israeli ship-based anti-aircraft missile system designed to conduct object air defense ships from aviation, anti-ship missiles And guided bombs. A ground version of the system has been developed.

SAM "Barak" was developed with common effort firms "IAI" and "Rafael". It was adopted by the Israeli Navy in 1987 and is in service with the Indian, Singaporean, Taiwanese, and Venezuelan navies. The first complex delivered to India was installed on the Indian aircraft carrier Viraat.

The launch of Barak anti-aircraft missiles is carried out from a vertical launch installation. While in the TPK, the wings and rudders of the rocket are folded. The interceptor missile is a two-stage solid-fuel missile equipped with an active radar homing head. After launch, the Barak missile performs a vertical climb for 0.6 s, and then turns to a combat course.

When intercepting the Barak air defense system, it uses a multi-purpose surveillance, tracking and guidance radar (MF-STAR) EL/M-2248 manufactured by ELTA Systems, consisting of four fixed antenna arrays.

Advanced air defense systems "Barak" can shoot down aircraft, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, guided bombs, unmanned aircrafts and enemy helicopters within a radius of up to 10 km in difficult weather conditions at any time of the day. The affected sector is 360°.

The cost of the Barak air defense system is about $24 million, the Barak missile has a cost of about $1.6 million per unit.

Barak (brigade)

188th Armored Brigade "Barak"- a brigade of armored forces of Israel as part of the Northern Military District.

The symbol of the armored brigade "Barak" is a shield with a red border, it has a blue and White background coastline of Haifa with a sword over it.

Since 1993, the brigade has been equipped with Merkava tanks, before that it was equipped with Centurion tanks.

Barak (river)

barrack - major river in Northeast India, part of the Surma-Meghna system.

The river begins in the hilly part of the state of Manipur, receives many tributaries and flows westward, passing in the southwest of Manipur into the state of Mizoram. At Mizoram it flows west, then turns north and enters the state of Assam, where it turns west at Lakhipura and enters the plain. In Assam, it flows west to the city of Silchar, where the Madhura River flows into it, and to the border with Bangladesh, where it is divided into two branches: northern (Surma) and southern (Kushiyara).

Examples of the use of the word barak in the literature.

Then this Abkhazian joyfully, but under great secrecy, told him that the doors to barracks the Austrian prisoners have not yet been cut through and that the prince is very angry because of this, especially at the engineer Bartmer, who, assuming that he is dead, will not be too mistaken.

IN barracks for military personnel and in the propaganda center they slept side by side on the floor, on benches and on tables, exhausted from hot stuffiness and snoring.

Old Aquila went with me, because the guard camp was located behind barracks garrison, so we were on our way.

And a few years ago, one old Altai communist, who returned from Magadan, told me that his friend, dying in barracks, said that these documents lie in the attic of one of the Biysk houses.

Well, that's about how one early morning I was sitting on the porch barracks in Angren and watched the sun come out from behind the pass.

Four witnesses who were held in different camps told you that there were similar unsanitary conditions in different camps and that everywhere in barracks was extremely crowded.

The law office of Red Fern Arch was located in a barrack gray asbestos cement office building on the outskirts of Cavalera, the county seat.

And then the grandmother's consciousness expands, and she already sees beyond the parade ground barracks, and in front is a high concrete fence with metal rods bent into the zone.

They were blackened by the bivouac fires of the Austrians who built barracks near the Gros Cayou.

He never enjoyed the privileges of a brigadier - quickly writing down the names of his subordinates on a wooden board, he grabbed the scythe, stood in a row with us, and only an hour before the end of work began to measure the mown areas with even steps, so that in the evening barracks multiply by the norms.

In the evening, just before the return of our tyurzakovok, the door barracks opened, and in the puffs of dense white air that rushed into the barracks, I immediately distinguished the smart felt felt boots of Anka Polozova, the foreman of the cleaners.

The morning noise of a hundred-headed man burst into his ears barracks who was preparing for a divorce - mat, screams, the sound of spoons, the loud calls of the workmen, calling out their brigadiers - in general, everything that I did not hear in a dream.

He watched people go out and in, and his technically rather experienced eye absently played with the connections of forging and casting, rolling and riveting, construction and execution, historical development And modern level, of which the invention of these barracks on wheels to transport people.

The upper chamfer of the stick accurately, with precisely calculated force, hit the side of the head, but at the same time did not touch the dangerous part of the temple, and the boy was led to the side, he wandered through barrack, as if he decided to leave here forever, but he did not go far: his legs gave way, and he wearily fell face down.

He was especially outraged that, with a huge capacity barracks they had only one door each, which in the event of a night fire could lead to panic and human casualties.

In 2008, a sensational event took place in the United States of America - for the first time an African American became the president of this country, Barack Hussein Obama. The Democrats, who were losing their authority, needed a messiah, and they found him in the young energetic Barack Obama.

Barack Hussein Obama entered the national political arena with an appeal for brotherly humanity, saying that he wants to leave this world a better place. He opposed the war in Iraq and for this, already being the President of the United States, in 2009 he received Nobel Prize peace.

However, two terms of Barack Obama at the head of the United States brought not peace, but a sword, conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, provoked by unsuccessful and successful attempts to seize power, the removal of objectionable leaders, the anti-Russian policy of Barack Obama, which led to increased tension between countries, in general, it is no coincidence that the Americans chose Donald Trump, who promised to get along with Vladimir Putin, restore relations with Russia and make America great again, but within the States themselves, and not through color revolutions around the world.

Barack Obama during a childhood baseball game in Hawaii

If we talk about the economy, and at the beginning of Barack Obama's rule there was a global crisis, then over the eight years of his reign, the US national debt almost doubled - from $10.63 trillion in 2009 to $19.7 trillion by the fall of 2016. According to the IMF, the US national debt is 107.5% of the country's GDP, while in 1998-2007 it averaged 60.7%.

Childhood and education of Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The parents of the future president met and married in 1961 while studying at the University of Hawaii. Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, studied anthropology, and his father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., studied econometrics. Obama's grandparents were dissatisfied with their daughter's choice, believing that she should not have married the son of a Luo medicine man. And they were right. Two years after the birth of little Obama, his father left to continue his studies at Harvard. He soon divorced Ann, and after his departure, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. saw his son only once, when he was 10 years old. Obama Sr died in Kenya car accident in 1982.

Barack Obama Sr. with his son at the airport in Honolulu (Photo: en.wikipedia.org)

Barack Obama has many brothers and sisters on his father's side, and after his mother's new marriage to the Indonesian Lolo Sutoro, he had a sister, Maya. The boy lived with his mother and stepfather in Jakarta. How wise woman, despite the divorce, Ann told her son a lot about the Kenyan people, about the talents of Obama Sr. She claimed that Barak owed his abilities to his father. Living in Jakarta, Ann Dunham became convinced that Barak Hussein could not get a quality education there. She took the boy to her parents, and they gladly accepted him, gave him a decent education. Having a mixed origin and living in a white family, the boy did not burden himself racial issues. He did not even think about his Kenyan relatives. Hawaii has a predominantly Asian population. Even with Kenyan roots, Barack did not feel the misfortunes that befell real African Americans, whose ancestors survived slavery. However, Barack Obama still claimed strong genetic ties to African Americans. When Obama decided to publish a book about his “black” life (“Dreams Inspired by a Father”), one of the publishers turned him down, commenting on the refusal with the words: “Well, you didn’t experience suffering ...”.

Ann Dunham with her second husband Lolo Soetoro, their daughter, Maya and Barack Obama, at a house in Jakarta

Barack Obama's mother divorced her Indonesian husband and left with her daughter for Honolulu, to live with her parents. Barak had already studied at the Punahou School, where he was preparing to enter a prestigious college. He read a lot, went in for sports, became a champion among schools in basketball, as he was a tall young man (Barack Obama's height is 185 cm). But the problems of adolescence did not pass him by; there are slippery places in the biography of Barack Hussein Obama. In his youth, he began to smoke marijuana, drink alcoholic beverages, which led his grandmother to despair. But these problems soon disappeared. Intelligence did not let him slide down.

Barack Obama (third from left, top row) with classmates at Punahou High School in Honolulu.

At school, all the teachers considered Barack Hussein Obama a capable young man. The traits of a real fighter appeared in the character - both in sports and in studies. He grew up ambitious and purposeful. Failure only made him want to succeed. He received a scholarship to continue his studies at Occidental College (Los Angeles). There, Barak became interested in youth politics, felt like a speaker and leader. Having high erudition, he could captivate the crowd with his performances. Soon, as part of a student exchange, Obama went to Columbia University in New York. The young student led a very ascetic lifestyle, leaned heavily on his studies, became interested in philosophy, read the works of Nietzsche, Melville, carefully studied the Bible. It was thanks to Columbia University that he actually became a different person.

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After graduating, Barack Obama received a bachelor's degree in political science and joined the prestigious Business International Corporation, which published newsletters on world trade and the economy, as well as consulting for international and American companies. Obama excelled in his duties as editor and research assistant in the International Financial Information Department. But he gladly accepted an invitation from Chicago city official Jerry Kellman to work in the Far South Side area, which was dominated by black people. This is where Barack Obama ran into new environment- cynical, illiterate and unfair. Barak aspired to work as an organizing official, but his elite language was not perceived by people embittered by poverty. Then he began to imitate their slang, tried to help them in the fight against difficulties. And then Barack Obama realized that he should improve his legal education. He entered Harvard in 1988 and graduated from Harvard Law School with excellent marks.

Political career Barack Obama

As is usually written in the biographies of the future president, Barack Obama burst into politics with a "frantic pace." He carefully listened to the ideas of the Republicans, although he himself was a Democrat, believing that any thoughts should be listened to. He unwittingly sympathized with African Americans, this was evident in his work. Barak Hussein became involved in politics, declaring that he wanted to help the offended.

Barack Obama before performing at Face the Nation in Chicago, 2007 (Photo: AP/TASS)

Black fellow tribesmen did not believe the beginning politician, they did not understand his cultural language, did not consider him a real black. Obama had to overcome strong rivals who had already proven themselves in politics. But Barack Obama was helped by his character traits: lust for power, self-confidence and even intransigence. And each of these properties was aggravated by incredible pressure on the individual, as it was associated with his career as a politician. Obama knew how to convince the listener, he always kept his promises. Gradually, his authority increased.

The young politician became a federal senator from Illinois - the 5th African American senator in US history.

Feeling his political strength, on February 10, 2007, in Springfield, in front of the old Illinois State Capitol, Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. It was a symbolic place. In 1858, it was here that Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic "A House Divided" speech. Obama in his program stood up for the unification of nations, for universal health care, energy independence. His campaign slogans are "Yes, we can!" (Yes We Can) and "Change We Can Believe In". And they believed him. The electoral turnout reached a record 64%, and on November 4, 2008, with the support of 338 out of 538 electors, Barack Hussein Obama became President of the United States.

Inauguration of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, 01/20/2009 (Photo: Zuma / TASS)

During his presidency, he worked closely with leading European countries. He often met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French Presidents Sarkozy and Hollande. Barack Obama argued that such cooperation between the US and the EU is "vital" to maintaining order in the world. However, the alliance was overshadowed by the actions of American intelligence agencies, which even listened to European leaders. Angela Merkel personally called the US President: “Such methods are unacceptable between allies,” the chancellor was indignant.

Barack Obama's victory has caused euphoria in many countries, especially in Kenya, other countries in Africa and the Middle East. People hoped for positive changes with his arrival. But these hopes were not justified. Barack Obama, who opposed the US military presence in Iraq before the election, changed his mind by moving to the White House, and in February 2009 sent 17,000 US troops to Afghanistan. 2009 was the bloodiest year for the US Army in Afghanistan since the beginning of the counterterrorist operation.

Then, new pockets of bloodshed appeared in North Africa, in the Middle East and even in Ukraine. This was facilitated by a whole series of "color revolutions" inspired and supported by the US State Department and personally by Barack Obama. As Senator Alexei Pushkov noted, “not under Bush, but under Obama, a bloody massacre began in Yemen, to which there is no end in sight. And not under Bush, but under Obama, the so-called IS * emerged, established itself and gained a foothold on the territory of Iraq and Syria, with which Obama refused to wage a real fight for almost two years.

US President Donald Trump with his wife Melania and former US President Barack Obama with his wife Michelle (from left to right) after the inauguration ceremony of the 45th US President D. Trump in the Capitol (Photo: AP / TASS)

Barack Hussein Obama left office with a 58 percent approval rating, lower than that of George W. Bush, who stepped down as president in 1993. Barack Obama served as President of the United States from January 20, 2009 to January 20, 2017, and the world has clearly not improved in that time.

* The "Islamic State" (ISIS, ISIS) was recognized by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014 terrorist organization and its activities are banned in Russia.