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Rocket Science As I have already pointed out, general audience, analysts, strategists & decision makers included holds unrealistic notions of how the global economy is organised....
I have repeatedly pointed out that the modern Russian military industry has little continuity with the Soviet one. Destroyed in the 1990s, it was effectively created anew in the Pu...
In August 1999, President Yeltsin appointed his FSB Chief Putin as the new Prime Minister. Same day, he named him as the official successor. Yet, there was a problem. To become a p...
My team has documented the entire Russian missile manufacturing base. That is 28 key ballistic, cruise, hypersonic and air defence missile producing plants associated with four cor...
On Friday, @navalny died (most probably killed) in prison. This is a good time to discuss the prospects of Russian opposition and the future transition of political power, once Put...
1. Russia makes more weaponry than its enemies. If nothing is done about its military production, Russia will win this war 2. Establishing the new political rule: Always bet agai...
Why Russia is running out of shells? Whereas the Wagner's shell hunger is real, ascribing it to the ill intentions of bureaucracy may be somewhat simplistic. It reflects the pecul...
The biggest Western delusion about the regimes like Russian may be that they can be successfully challenged by some sort of βoppositionβ. Reality check: The King is most likely...
National Divorce: Q and A In this thread I am going to cover some of the more common misconceptions about the current state of affairs in Russia and potential scenarios of its bre...
For context: that's how the most popular Russian ethnonationalist media of the recent decades "Sputnik and Pogrom" pictured their dream - "Russia for Russians". Very decolonizing,...
Barely any Slavs before Slavic invasions, barely any Indo-Europeans before Indo-European invasion The problem with your argument is not that it is wrong. The problem is that it is...
I noticed that the American discourse tends to hugely exaggerate the role of ethnolinguistic factor as the driving force of state/nation-formation. Which is kinda ironic, consideri...