Most younger Russians don't give a damn about using internet to get real news. Every bit of information the west has on Russia is available on the Russian internet in Russian language. The issue is that the majority of internet generation Russians are interested in the internet to access the social networks, dating…

I am curious with regards to the sources of your claim that the Russian intervention in Syria is “deeply unpopular”. I mean, sure if you read liberal Russian newspapers and blogs, and hear a liberal Russian radio station like Echo of Moscow, then you will see many opinions that the Russian intervention is “deeply…

The T-90 is not exactly a new design. All of Soviet/Russian/Ukrainian tanks after the T-55 and its derivatives were basically a remake or upgrade of the T-64 from the 1960s. The T-72 was meant to be a “cheap” mobilization/export tank that’s cheaper and less advanced than T-64. Only in the 80s T-72 became a formidable…

F1 is a prostitute. What is F1?

Hello there. Every time I posted something on this blog previously, somebody would come out of a woodwork and denounce me as a paid FSB/KGB agent. I got sick of it, and decided to use a name that would prevent such replies in future..

Armenia is still bullied by Turkey because Turkey closed its border with Armenia over 20 years ago (but without cutting diplomatic relations). To this day, Turkish education system teaches that all Armenians were filthy traitors and therefore deserved to be massacred in or deported from Turkey. Yes, the Russian…

Maldonado accomplished pretty much nothing after his win in Spain in 2012. In fact, shockingly, Maldonado ended the 2012 season in 14th place, despite his win, just above his 15th place teammate, Bruno Senna. I think you know what I am getting at. It was a fluke win. Most F1 experts will tell you that F1 got seven…

Despite the sad history of Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey, Armenians don't have much beef with Turkey besides their wish to be stopped bullied by Turks. Turkey's border crossings with Armenia were shut by Turks more than 20 years ago.

It’s far from being a war for resources.. What happened in Syria is a result of direct and indirect interference by many external players: ISIS (established and coming from Iraq), USA, Turkey, each with its own, often conflicting goals. This was more than enough to create civil war in a country with so many tribal…

I don't think T-90 was sighted in east Ukraine, but the Russian T-72B3 (a non-export Russian T-72B upgrade) was certainly sighted as were many other Russian weapons. A more correct summary of the conflict is that Ukrainians were not able to beat a relatively small force of pro-Russians separatists and Russian proxies…

It’s not clearly what the Georgian military accomplished in the 2008 war. Despite their sneaky surprise invasion into the separatist South Ossetia region, they were routed in just a few days, and their only accomplishment was setting then a new land speed record as they run off into the capital Tbilisi, dropping most…

Russians flattened and took control of separatist Chechnya twice during the two Chechen wars, but Russian troops withdrew from Chechnya in 1996 entirely for political reasons, with Yeltsin willing to betray his troops, his people, and the pro-Russia Chechens only for the sake of short term political gain. This is a…

I think Putin's strategy is playing out pretty nicely. The longer the Syrian civil war goes on, the longer the refugees, criminals and terrorists will continue coming into Europe. At some point, the Europeans are going to ask, for how long do we support the idiotic anti-Assad coalition instead of supporting Assad's…

1. Please drop the BS talk about “Syrian genocide”. According to the most anti-Syrian regime sources, up to 300,000 people died in the Syrian civil war. It’s a nice round number that the likes of McCain or Clinton like to parrot around, but they do not mention that something like one third of that number were regular…