Russian Navy Sinks Flagship With Parade Mine: The Neukrotimy (Indomitable) arrived in St. Petersburg for celebrations to mark Russian Navy Day on July 26. On July 30, it suddenly submerged below its waterline...
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AndyRussia withdraws first troops from Georgia
Following an agreement in May, Russia has finally begun withdrawing from its Georgian base at Batumi. The first convoy of troops and equipment left on Saturday. Befitting any Russian military action, all has...
Fallout from ABC Basayev interview
ABC’s decision to nationally screen an interview with Shamil Basayev on Nightline last week (see here for details) has caused a furore in Russia, prompting the Russian Foreign Ministry to call the US...
Yeltsin’s political comeback
CXW posts some amusing speculation about who might become Russia’s next President at registan.net and comes up with a surprising candidate – Boris Yeltsin. WTF? Well, quoting Sergei Markov in RIA...
More bombs in London
Two weeks after the first bombing, four more terrorist bombs have exploded in London, three on the tube, one on a bus. Only, this time, the explosions seem to have been only detonators, with no actual explosive...
Ukraine abolishes traffic police
Ukraine’s President Yushchenko has entirely abolished the country’s traffic police. Yes, that’s right, there are no traffic police on the roads of Kiev today. Konstantin reports: For what I...
Belarus, Russia involved in Ivory Coast sanctions busting?
Despite an international arms embargo affecting both government and rebel forces, it appears that military equipment from the Former Soviet Union is still managing to make its way into the Ivory Coast, the Telegraph...
Property investment in Moscow
Buy to let is a craze that has swept the United Kingdom over the last few years, as the economy has boomed. Buy a house or flat (apartment), let it out at enough to cover the interest only mortgage, then after a...
HIV in the Russian army
No sooner do I finish posting the last entry (HIV abuses in Russia’s Medical System) than I come across this Moscow Times article about Russian Army concerns about the high level of draftees that are being...
Ukrainian economy slumps
Despite making the reform of corrupt business and attracting foreign investment central to his public policy pronouncements, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko must be more than a little worried by the...