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Thanks for comprehensive answer but On my humble opinion that is not correct. In reality further Mongol movement to Europe was stopped due to internal political crisis in Mongolia itself. The crisis was caused by the death in 1241 of Khan Ogedei who was an official successor to Genghis Khan. The...

An author of drawing which I use as profile picture is Andrey Kuznetsov. The drawing is a part of a serie representing famous Soviet and Russian cartoon characters Crocodile Gena, Cheburashka and Shapoklyak as characters of different famous paintings and movies. Some other subjects are listed...

Some remarks. 1. What about China? It also has no pastures. It has a lot of rivers, fields with crops and ditches, hedges, and wooden fences. But Mongols took China. And central and northern Russ (Russia is the name since 18th century) was also covered by forests. 2. Again about China. It has...

Thank you. What we see here is another piece of propaganda chatter from Europe. Actually in the Caucasus coexisted peoples of two religions: Christianity and Islam . In the 18-19 century a clash of political and economic interests of Russia and Turkey was added. Christian peoples of the...

1. not suitable example; 2. disagree. ("Vietnam invaded Vietnam", XD, no comments. in reality USA invaded Vietnam, USSR/Russia:USA - 0:1) 3. disagree. "Korea invaded Korea" (I really do not like North Korean regime but the truth is that USA invaded Korea, USSR/Russia:USA - 0:2) 4. agree...

Just the same as NATO is worried about Iskander system deployment in Western Military District of Russia. Iskander's missile in not ballistic. It can be seen as hypersonic (6M) maneuverable (overload 20-30g) missile with conventional warhead (480kg) and accuracy 1-30m (depends on warhead and...

The weight (and dimensions) itself has some matters. Russian designed tanks are capable of this: 1 T-72/T-90 ready for battle can be transported by 1 IL-76 (or C-17 if you like). 2 T-72/T-90 ready for battle + some bonus can be transported by 1 AN-124. Width of T-72/T-90 is chosen so that ready...

Medieval castle on the banks of the Volga river (Samara region). Popular venue for weddings

Krasnoyarsk in winter is more picturesque. Yenisei river does not freeze in winter due to hydro power plant. Some people like to swim in winter. And photo of Yenisei river Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro power plant.

ATHENS, December 14 (RIA Novosti) – Greek armed forces test-fired a Russian-made S-300 air defense system on Friday, for the first time since it was bought 14 years ago. Greece is the only NATO member that has an S-300 in service. The system was initially purchased by Cyprus in the mid-1990s...

Excellent video! It seems to be guided missile 9k119m (NATO name AT-11 Sniper) Stop on 25-th second, rudders are seen exactly.

On my opinion it may be difficult to describe WWII battles due to the following reasons: 1. they were operations which lasted many days. For example Kursk battle lasted about 1 month; 2. high level of propaganda from all sides: Germany, USSR/Russia, USA/Britain. Speaking about WWII operations I...

No wonder for 90s. Remember Yak-130 and that Italian M-346 Yak-130 M-346 Also there are some dependable evidences that Chinese J-10 was developed from IAI Lavi with direct participation of MiG engineers.

Also Yak-201 by the way.

A little bit of classical music to your thread. A beautiful slightly arranged song from a Prince Igor Opera by A. Borodin. With subtitles, many thanks to Adel Khalil First version is with a pure opera voice Second is with a simple pop style voice

1. Mutual trade turnover between Russia and Germany in 2012. reached $ 104-105 billion, said Economic Development Minister Andrei Belousov at a conference in Germany. Вести Экономика ― Взаимный товарооборот РФ и Германии достиг $105 млрд Trade turnover between Russia and China this year...

The stakes are too high to call it just a business. Turnover between Germany and Russia in 2012 was about $ 100 billion, between China and Russia was about $ 88 billion, between Belorussia and Russia was about $ 44 billion. In comparison, turnover between Vietnam and Russia in 2012 was about $...

Let's be more peaceful. Zenit (Ukrainian: Зеніт, Russian: Зени́т; meaning Zenith) is a family of space launch vehicles designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Dnepropetrovsk.

1. It is practically impossible to deceive military because they are very technically literate people and their lifes and fulfilment of a mission depends on the characteristics of weapons. Integrated circuits, GPS, internet, radars, all this and many other things were developed first for...

Thanks for remark. I do not hide my identity if someone asks me. And I agree that flag is helpful.