Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born 14 March 1956) is a Russian video game designer and computer engineer who developed "Tetris" while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D center. He only started to get royalties from his creation in 1996 when he and Henk Rogers formed The Tetris Company. Pajitnov was born on 14 March 1956 in Moscow, in the Soviet Union. He studied applied mathematics at the Moscow Aviation Institute. He then went on to work on speech recognition at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre where he would develop Tetris.
25th anniversary of Hamas that objected to the new building projects for Jewish homes in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. President Shimon Peres shared Netanyahu’s views of Hamas but still maintained that Abbas is a “peace partner”. The European Union on Monday, 10 December 2012, denounced as "unacceptable" the statements by Hamas leaders in Gaza "that deny Israel’s right to exist," while also condemning Israel for its plans to link Jerusalem with Ma'ale Adumim. Days earlier, the United Nations passed a resolution, recognizing Palestine as a non-member observer state. 25th anniversary of Hamas The 25th anniversary of the founding of Hamas took place on Saturday,