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Tag: russia
Given that the Russian Navy is hopelessly outmatched by NATO in the Black Sea, what point is there to maneuvers off Venezuela? …a source indicates to me that the task force in question will incl
Russia Navy Blog has a translation of a Russian article investigating the effectiveness of the Army in Georgia. Reaction speed: Good. Communications: Bad, especially with the Air Force. Recon and nigh
Try to make it sound plausible… The owner of an internet site critical of the Russian authorities in the volatile region of Ingushetia has been shot dead in police custody. Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the ingushetiya.ru site, was a vocal critic of the region’s administration. The Russian prosecutor’s office said an investigation into the death […]
Caveat emptor, President Kokoity. The Kremlin moved swiftly to tighten its grip on Georgia’s breakaway regions yesterday as South Ossetia announced that it would soon become part of Russia, which wi
China isn’t comfortable with the rules Russia wants to play with. A summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a seven- nation security alliance that includes China and four former Soviet
A correspondent keeps sending me groovy Russian TV clips; this one takes something of an alarmist view of the ability of a Tomahawk missile to strike targets in Russia. Of course, nothing that I’d be surprised to find on Fox News. Here’s a clip of Moskva visiting Abkhazia.
Sevastopol: Russia’s flagship cruiser re-entered the Black Sea on Monday for weapons tests hours after the Russian military complained about the presence of U.S. and other NATO naval ships near
Via Danger Room, David Fulghum has a good post up at Ares on the Russian Air Force. Whatever prep the Army and the Navy may have conducted prior to the beginning of the war, it doesn’t appear th
I can’t be the only one to think that this cover art is just… fabulous in so many ways. In other stuff that you should be reading: Doug Muir on Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the first leader of independent Georgia. Myers and Shanker on the difficulties of conducting diplomacy with the two-headed Russian executive. PTJ gets all […]
Via ID, it appears that the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is deploying from Murmansk to the Mediterranean. The expectation seems to be that she will operate (at least for a short period)
A lot of criticism of Georgia’s operational mistakes (as opposed to its basic strategic error) has focused on the failure to blow up Roki Tunnel, which is the only passable route between Russia