Back to the USSR? | guardian.co.uk

Posted by Matt in February 23rd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Favorites, Russia, Attack On America, Borders, China Shop, Global Functions, Guardian Co Uk, Guardian Uk, infrastructure, Irina, Main Enemy, Missile Defense Systems, NATO, Norms, Nuclear Forces, Nuclear War, Obama, Real World, Russia, Russian Federation, Soviet Days, Ussr

Why would Russia want to launch a nuclear preemptive attack on America? Russia has been kind enough to explain why it might attack America – it feels threatened by NATO and the U.S.
Now if one is oblivious to the world, then you would go on encircling Russia while at the same time reducing your nuclear [...]

Scoop: Paul Buchanan: China on the Horizon (Part 1)

Posted by Matt in September 13th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Allies, Antipodean, Communication Resources, Contender, Diplomatic Leverage, Domination, Emergence, Horizon, Latin-America, Military Challenge, Orbit, Paul Buchanan, Power Projection, Power Vacuum, Regional Influence, rivalry, S Pacific, Scoop, Sea Lines, Ussr

The US did not anticipate that China would step into this perceived power vacuum as a contender for regional influence, and that China’s increased soft power projection in the South Pacific would raise the possibility of a future hard (read military) challenge to US domination in that strategic theater. The US relied on the continued [...]

The Russian Federation is developing signs of the initial stage of a breakup

Posted by Matt in February 25th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, Belarus, Breaking Point, Breakup, Carnegie Moscow Center, China Japan, Economic Crisis, Europe, February 12, Initial Stage, Jamestown, Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation, Scholar, Signs, South-Korea, Ties, Unrest, Ussr

“As a scholar, I establish the fact that the Russian Federation is developing signs of the initial stage of a breakup,” Professor Alexei Malashenko, Scholar-in-Residence of the Carnegie Moscow Center, told Jamestown on February 12. “Not unlike the case of the USSR, the current economic crisis threatens to bring already badly strained internal ties to [...]

Back In the USSR?

Posted by Matt in July 14th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, 1970s, Appointment, Back In The Ussr, Belarus, Crises, Demise, Economy, Leonid Brezhnev, Prime Minister, Record Oil Prices, Regime, Russia, Soviet Union, Tendencies, Ussr, Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin’s appointment this spring as prime minister of the symbolic “union” of Russia and Belarus was yet another example of the troubling similarities between today’s Russia and the other most stable and prosperous Russian regime of the past 80 years: Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union in the 1970s. That economy, too, was fueled by then-record [...]

Moscow: 65 Meters Underground in a Secret Bunker

Posted by Matt in July 13th, 2008 | 1 comment

Published in Russia, Shelters, Alcoholics, Bolshoi Theatre, Citizens, moscow, Notions, Poll Results, Red Square, Russia, Russia Pictures, Russian Pictures, Russians, Secret Bunker, St Basil, St Basil S Cathedral, Third World, Tourists, Traveller, Tretyakov Gallery, tunnels, Underground, Ussr, World Superpower

The Red Square, St. Basil`s Cathedral, Tretyakov Gallery, the Bolshoi Theatre are amongst the “standard” must-see attractions in Moscow for a foreign traveller. However, there are a number of places in Moscow foreign tourists are rarely shown. One of them is restricted USSR military object – Secured Command Post «Taganskiy» (GO-42), located 65 meters underground.
Kotelnicheskii [...]

Titanic search was cover for secret Cold War subs mission

Posted by Matt in May 23rd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Military, 1960s, Bob Ballard, Cold-War, Discovery, Fears, Navy Vessels, Nuclear Submarines, Oceanographer, Scorpion, Secret Missions, submarines, Subs, Titanic, United States Navy, Us Navy, Uss Scorpion, Uss Thresher, Ussr, Wreck Of The Titanic, Wreckage, Wrecks

The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that the discovery was a cover story to camouflage the real mission of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines.
When Bob Ballard led a team that pinpointed the wreckage of the liner in 1985 he had already completed his main task of [...]

Russia: Is The USSR Back In Vogue?

Posted by Matt in May 6th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, Former Glory, Free Rein, Hallmarks, Military Tradition, Political Analyst, putin, Red Square, Russia, Soviet Empire, tanks, Ussr, Victory Day, Vogue

Dmitry Oreshkin, a Russian political analyst, says beefing up the Victory Day parade is just one of many steps that Putin has taken toward resurrecting the hallmarks of the Soviet empire and the country’s former glory.
“He gives free rein to the Soviet dream,” Oreshkin says. “The huge number of people who were brought up in [...]