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Recipients might be inclined to immediately trash these messages, mistaking them for spam promoting the latest weight-loss drug or advertisements for an upcoming Danube River cruise.

The spaceship approaching the space station, floating, as if in an interstellar dance, to the strains of Strauss‘ “The Blue Danube Waltz,” remains the meme of film.

The dance is a festive favourite in Ukraine: Johann Strauss's Blue Danube Waltz, written in 1866 to lift the Austrian public's spirits following a war.

It’s telling that he conceived of his scenes in clearly delineated horizontal bars that give sky, earth and the Danube River an unshakable, marble-like solidity.

Last week, the port of Izmail was targeted by drones near the River Danube and a Romanian border crossing and grain facility were damaged.