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Minus six - The minus six was a form of exile imposed in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, which banned the subject from living in or visi...

Vladimir Putin at a fish processing plant on Iturup - Gavriil Grigorov This piqued my interest because my niece and nephew are in the fishin...

Tupolev Tu-22M3 Khmeimim Air Base in Syria Just a cool photo. The Tu-22M is a big airplane. Selected specs from Wikipedia : 140 feet long va...

Sylvain Cordier / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images Where did the ivory trade go after China banned elephant tusks? North, into the Russian permafr...

Hotel Metropol I am reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles . I'm not quite sure what to make of it but I'm only a quarter of t...

Sabetta, Yamal LNG Plant (the red placemark in the upper right corner) Report from RT : EU buying record Russian LNG volumes with total ban ...

When The War Came TheDecemberists I'm reading a story about a new Russian play about The Decemberists.  Okay, but who are the Decemb...

Kompozitor Rakhmaninov at the Port Olya in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia Came across this image and wondered if Google could place it, and you c...

Found this curious bit on  RT : Russian arms giant showcases pioneering anti-drone rounds The multiple-projectile munitions have a...

Dmitri and Daria Bukhman Meduza reports: The Booker Prize Foundation announced that the International Booker Prize is being renamed the B...

Lavochkin La-9 I did a jigsaw puzzle of this image this afternoon, but it was watermarked with AIRLINERS.NET, and I'm not gonna post th...

Ilyushin Il-2 - Romain Hugault Romain Hugault is a comic book artist Wikipedia -  Production In early 1941, the Il-2 was ordered into produ...

Ilyushin DB-3 The Ilyushin DB-3 is a WW2 Soviet long-range bomber aircraft. It first flew in 1935. 1,528 were built.  From Wikipedia : The D...

Key - Ernst Neizvestny - 1984 Meduza  got me started with a story about a Russian soldier who was making bank by forging Ernst Neizvestny ar...

Yakovlev Yak-18 U Wikipedia : The Yakovlev Yak-18 ( NATO reporting name Max) is a tandem two-seat military primary trainer aircraft manufac...

Pischal Counter-UAV Gun Not really for the average slob, it essentially enables private armies, as long as they are loyal to the regime. Of ...

Yakovlev UT-2 From Vintage Aviation News : On July 11, 1935, the Yakovlev UT-2 took to the skies for the first time, marking a pivotal momen...

Chernobyl nuclear power station Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

Zelensky says Ukraine has completed repairs on Druzhba pipeline, which carries Russian oil to Europe Doesn't make any sense to me. It...

Four MiG-17s 2025 Defenders of Liberty Air Show at Barksdale AF From Wikipedia : The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (NATO reporting name: Fresco) i...