It’s really idiotic to try to imply that Russia have supplied rifles to the terrorists. This statement is as inane as saying that Mexico should break off the relations with USA because Obama sold M16 rifles to Mexican cartels.

The immigration pattern is unlikely to change. The majority of people of former soviet republics of the Central asia or Caucasus, or the bordering Chinese provinces are still so poor and desperate that migration to Russia seems like heaven for them. Heck, wouldn’t be surprised if there is a ton of Belarus and…

The issue here is not puppet leader or not, but the fact that when USSR dissolved, the newly minted country called “Ukraine”, which had never existed before, packed up lots of historically Russian land, with ethnic Russians, and said ciao. See, when the internal subdivisions of USSR existed, they were never meant for…

The 64GB version of last year’s OnePlus One is still the best $300 smartphone today. Heck, it still better than a lot of 400-500 dollar phones of the current generation. I’d get it instead of the $300 Nexus 5X without thinking. Why?

The 64GB version of last year’s OnePlus One is still the best $300 smartphone today. Heck, it still better than a…

Crimea was transferred to Ukrainian SSR illegally in the 1950s to begin with. Was the transfer in 1950s democratic? No. Was it legal? Russian Duma says no again. When USSR dissolved, Russian leaders were furious that Crimea, which was assigned to Ukraine’s administration for administrative purposes only in 1950s, may…

It doesn’t matter what the pilots did. Any prisoner of war has rights regardless of whatever happened before. The “justice of the crowd” is not justice at all. The FSA savages have just demonstrated that they don’t have any understanding of these principles.

It looks like a tombstone. Jalopnik had better shirts in the past..

Turkey was a key Cold War era NATO ally. To be able to place NATO bases and missiles in Turkey close to South Russia, Caucasus, and Iran, while also controlling the entrances to the Black Sea and keeping taps on Syria (which was constantly fighting with Israel) was priceless at that time. Moreover, it was USSR that…

Yeah that’s a great idea. After all, the equivalent mission of the previous decade (that of wiping out Alqueda and Saddam Hussein) had worked so well.

I really wonder about the comical idiots behind Kremlin’s propaganda machine. First these imbeciles claim that it was a Ukrainian Su-27 that shot down the Malaysian MH17, then they claim that it may have been a Ukrainian Su-25, finally they claim that MH17 was shot down by a SAM missile that was fired by Ukrainians…

“Good to see” is not the appropriate phrase to use when somebody may have been killed, but I do agree that every country has the right to protect its air space from unwelcome intrusions.

The destruction of Berlin is understandable once you realize that the nazi troops that were holed up in there already had no other place to retreat to, so they were fighting to death. There were stories of German civilians picking up grenade launchers from dead soldiers and firing at soviet troops.

In 1999 Grozny was effectively a depopulated city, because it was already a pile of rubble after 1994-96 war. Hundreds of thousands of Chechens were living in refugee camps in the nearby republics.

We aren’t arguing that conventional cars are enthusiast cars, but where did you see in the article the statement that Prius is a conventional car? Hybrids are still a minority of cars with very interesting technology solutions in them, but Prius is arguably the most influential and the most successful one of them.

2) and 3) are totally irrelevant and subjective. As for point 1, I think the great success of Formula E as a series is a prove to all the techno-fetishists that it is people, drivers, who make the good racing series, not “factories”. If anybody cared about “factories”, surely more people would have watched WEC. FE was…

Well, then your info is wrong. For one, the idea that Mercedes is supposedly getting less marketing exposure from being called AMG Mercedes as opposed to Mercedes GP is laughable. Either way, it’s still a Mercedes and that’s how everyone calls it, including the TV crews. And actually throughout the years when Red Bull…

It’s simple. Mercedes outspent everyone else by a surprising amount of Europe’s finest currencies during the stage when free for all development was actually allowed (that is, before 2014 season). Once the 2014 season started, there were put formal brakes on power unit development (the rule, even factory agreed with),…

Russians are pretty cool with Germans, French, and Italians as is. Excluding the timing of horrible Napoleonic or World wars, Russians always viewed west Europe with admiration for being a source of fine culture and technology. Remove USA from the picture, together with its sidekicks like Poland or the thee Baltic…

Indeed, I wonder what kind of targets those bombs were going to hit. Can’t imagine ISIS fighters being spread over a wide open field of grass like sitting ducks for these bumbs..

I am surprised the car didn’t get a bigger ICE engine. Wasn’t there a rumor that the new Prius will have a 2.0L engine and the combined horsepower of about 150hp? I could be wrong I guess. It’s not like the current Prius needs to have more HP to serve its purpose as an efficient commute car, but I am really surprised…