Tag: Russia
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Russia Updates
President Rasputin finally signed a decree that will ban Russian companies to supply crude to foreign countries if contract to contain any mention of a price cap. This decree will come into force starting February 1st 2023, i.e. two months after the oil price cap on Russian oil was introduced by Western countries. The exact…
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Updates (Russia)
A blast of the natural gas pipeline in Russia that supplies the Europe via Ukraine is reported to be a result of repair works gone bad. Three workers died as a result. The Gazprom has already assured the supplies to the “unfriendly” countries won’t be affected, as this section is used to provide about 42…
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Ukranian Strikes on Russian Strategic Airbases — Russian Nuclear Deterrence Compromised
Yesterday, December 5th, Ukraine lunched at least to deep strikes on Russian Strategic Bomber bases deep inside Russian territory. One of those bases, the Engels airbase, is the main base of Russian Strategic Forces’ nuclear triad’s air component. Overview — feel free to skip if you already know this Having three components of nuclear deterrence…
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Destroying the Legacy
The Dove of Peace, president Rasputin Rasputinovich himself, made a TV appearance, where he “received a briefing” from his best buddy Shoigu, regarding the completion of the Rasputin’s “partial mobilizations”. The other comedian in this farce, the minister of defence Shoigu, was unusually quiet-spoken and jittery in his expressions and responses. Maybe, he feels his…
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Iranian Drones and the Mainstream Media — Spinning to the Point of Vertigo
It’s more a filler article, since I didn’t post anything for some time. The reason being nothing is really happening. Nothing of note, that is. Ukraine is still sacrificing its population on the altar of western Russophobia, Russia is still not ready to accept how much rotten its bureaucratic machine is, especially the Ministry of…
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The State of Russian Army — Back to the USSR
In last days I saw three articles on BMPD (a Russian CAST military “think-tank”) Telegram channel: T-62 main battle tank (entered service in 1961) Let’s start with the first article. T-62 is a second post-WWII generation MBT. It succeeded the first past-war generation T-54/55. In turn, it was followed by the third generation T-64 and…
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Responding to Jacob Dreizin’s video “Who deserves the Firing Squad” (in Russian)
Jacob’s video: Кого на расстрел? (1st exclusive video for my Russian audience) He makes a few points I want to address. For some reason, my comments on his blog aren’t being published. I assume the reason is him approving each comment one-by-one, and if there are a large number of comments, not all of them…
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Russian Military Usage of the Iranian Drones
We see Russian Army started to use Iranian drones Shahed-136 (dubbed “Geran’-2” in Russian service) on regular basis. Those drones are now used as cheap cruise missiles. They don’t have an imaging sensor, so they cannot be used for reconnaissance or for autonomous target detection. Instead, they rely on a GPS navigation, which, as I…
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The cause and effect of the Partial Mobilization
I’m becoming more and more convinced that that has happened was something like this: The Government doesn’t trust the people with the truth, so it lies and spins and make excuses. That causes the people to lose faith in the government. And the spiral continues. This is the sorry state of affairs right now, and…
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The Last Week: Some Thoughts and Updates
The weakening of the Russian image on the global scene After the hasty Russian military withdrawal from the Kharkov region territories, Russian Army’s image suffered a mighty blow. After the flare-up of Armenian-Azeri conflict, Armenia has officially requested for Russian protection under the collective defence treaty. Russian response was muddled, one of relatively low profile…
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