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Japan is currently joining the sanctions regime against Russia. Putin is hoping to break the sanctions by offering the islands. You can guess what the result will be... nothing.
Japan is currently joining the sanctions regime against Russia. Putin is hoping to break the sanctions by offering the islands. You can guess what the result will be... nothing.
Ummmm. Yeah right. The sanctions are working too....................
Life is usually a matter of what you convince yourself of isn't it?
A video on Electronic Warfare. It's widely accepted that Russia is extremely capable in this and anti aircraft warfare. I beleive they go hand in hand. A simple video of a very complex subject.
i think Russians are doing it right, targeting the right things in their efforts. Air superiority requires tremendous effort to acquire and maintain. They focus on DEPRIVATION of air superiority and mission interdiction.
Ah, OK, thanks.
( There were rumors on FB, but I never looked into the whole situation.)
Meanwhile, I am watching this young couple - a guy from the city of Voronehz with upbeat personality and his wife traveling in Iran. ( I watched them making through Georgia-Azerbaijan-Armenia- Turkey and now they are in Iran as we speak.)
Their video blog is intended for Russian audience of course, so it's in Russian; the food, the prices, the hotels, the bathrooms, the gas stations and so on. But it's interesting to watch;
0:58 Mamma mia - a museum in Tehran; former jail for political prisoners.
The guys wife is the twin of my sister in law. Same smile and facial features, common in the Bryansk region.
Really?!
This type looks totally unfamiliar to me - in fact I wondered whether she has some Northern Caucasians in her family, because of those very dark eyes and very dark hair. ( This is very unusual for ethnic Russians - at least from what I am used to.)
And it's not only me now when I think about it, but other Russian guys were joking there in the comments that Dasha ( girl's name) "looks like a Turkish girl in all those scarves" and Alexander ( guy's name) should keep an eye on her, so that the locals wouldn't steal her.
No, I haven't seen Russians looking like this, and you are saying "Bryansk region?"
I looked it up - it's on the border with Ukraine. ( And yes, they are from Voronezh, which is close to Bryansk.)
They say ( according to DNA and all this stuff) that Ukrainians have some Turkish admixture. ( From the times of the Osman Empire I guess?)
I wonder may be it's the case here too, since it's as close to Ukraine as it gets?
But anyways, I talked to the guy a bit - a nicest person ever.
I hope they will come back home safe and sound.
Just heard a rumor that Russia has been doing ship to ship transfers of Yamal LNG off the coast of Norway. Apparently to get around sanctions or something. 3 in the last 3 days. Apparently the English don't like it. Whole thing is unclear.
Erasure. My ex wifes/sister in law father claimed a Greek heritage. The mothers family comes from further north, in between Smolensk and Tver. She claims Mordvinian heritage.
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Mamma mia - a museum in Tehran; former jail for political prisoners. 
( And yes, they are from Voronezh, which is close to Bryansk.)