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Why Are Russian War Movies So Awful?
‘Stalingrad’ (2013). Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing The 2013 war movie Stalingrad, directed by Fedor Bondarchuk, is gritty, exciting, romantic and chock full of cutting-edge s...
These Are Some Of The Most Famous Ukrainian Works Of Art Looted By Russia
Topline Russian forces have stolen thousands of pieces of Ukrainian artwork and damaged hundreds of cultural sites since the beginning of the Kremlin’s invasion nearly 11 months ago, including ancient...
Ukrainian MiGs Firing Radar-Fuzed Rockets—Just The Thing For Shooting Down Russian Drones
A USAF F-94C fires air-to-air rockets. U.S. Air Force photo The United States has pledged to Ukraine a consignment of Zuni unguided rockets. There are two ways the Ukrainians could use them—firing the...
Russian Mercenaries’ Human Wave Tactics Push Back Ukrainian Troops In Soledar
Wagner fighters, purportedly in Soledar’s salt mines. Via social media When the Ukrainian army began rotating fresh units into eastern Ukraine in mid-December, the 46th Air Mobile Brigade drew t...
Crypto Lender Nexo Under Investigation for Alleged Money Laundering, Russian Sanction Violations in Bulgaria – Bitcoin News
According to several reports, Bulgarian law enforcement officials are investigating crypto lender Nexo for alleged money laundering and sanctions violations. Siika Mileva, a spokesperson for Bulgaria’...
The Decline Of Russian Artillery In The Ukraine War
Commonly dubbed the “King of Battle,” artillery is a critical asset to any military. Indeed, modern warfare leverages the destructive nature of artillery to shape the battlefield from extended ranges....
In This Russian Battalion, The Tanks Don’t Work And The Commander Is A Drunk Pyromaniac
A mostly non-working T-72 apparently belonging to the 2nd Motor Rifle Division. Via social media As Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds into its 11th month, the Russian army’s tanks are in bad shape....
Ukraine’s About To Get French Scout ‘Tanks’—And A New Way Of Exploiting Gaps In Russian Lines
A French army AMX-10RC. Wikimedia Commons Ukraine is getting AMX-10RC armored vehicles from French stocks. The six-wheel AMX-10RC with its 105-millimeter gun looks like a tank, but without the tracks....
Russian Federation Presents Bill on Digital Ruble to State Duma
The Russian Federation has submitted a draft bill regarding the digital ruble to the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. Russian lawmakers, led by the Chairman of the Financial Mar...
Ukraine Strike Kills Over 60 Russian Troops—One Of Russia’s Biggest Losses Of War
Topline A Ukrainian strike on a Russian facility in occupied far eastern Ukraine killed at least 63 Russian soldiers, according to multiple reports, citing Russian state media, in one of the deadliest...
Ukraine’s Drones Keep Hitting Russia’s Bomber Bases. Now Russian Missile Crews Are Getting Jumpy.
A Russian air force Su-27 in 2016. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian military on Dec. 29 apparently sent more explosives-laden drones to strike a Russian air force base outside Moscow. It was at least t...
Former Russian President Backs Digital Fiat Currencies Over Fiat
Bitcoin News This week, Dmitry shared his predictions for the year 2023 in a series of funny postings. Medvedev stated oil will cost $150 a barrel, and natural gas would cost more than $5,000. Russia’...
Draft Bill on Digital Ruble Submitted to Russian Parliament
Tradingview The members of State Duma seek to add CBDC-related terminology to the legislation. The real-world consumer transactions and testing will begin in April 2023. Draft legislation on the digit...
Bill on Digital Ruble Submitted to Russian Parliament – Finance Bitcoin News
A draft law devoted to the digital ruble has been filed with the State Duma, the lower house of Russian parliament. The legislation introduces rules determining how the new form of national fiat will ...
Why Russian Officials Are Referencing The Cyprus Missile Crisis
Russian officials have referenced the Cypriot Missile Crisis of the late 1990s in their warnings to Greece about potentially transferring its Russian-built S-300 air defense missile systems to Ukraine...
Russian Attacks On Ukraine Power Grid May Be Global
Sabotage of U.S. electrical substations make it harder for Ukraine to recover from Russian attacks Getty Images Russia is repeatedly attacking Ukraine’s power grid, subjecting electrical substations t...
Dollar Loses to Digital Currencies in 2023, Former Russian President Medvedev Says – Bitcoin News
Digital fiat currencies will spread next year while the U.S. dollar will be losing its status of global reserve currency, according to Russia’s former head of state. In a string of tweets, Dmitry Medv...
To Survive Ukraine’s Air-Defenses, Russian Pilots Fly Low And Lob Rockets. It Might Not Be As Inaccurate As It Seems.
Russian air force Su-25s firing unguided rockets over Ukraine. Via social media It’s one of the weirdly iconic images of the Ukraine war: Russian and Ukrainian helicopters and attack jets flying low o...
Who Will Fly Iran’s New Russian Su-35s?
A Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter bomber lands at the Russian Hmeimim military base in Latakia … [+] province, in the northwest of Syria on May 4, 2016. Syria’s conflict erupted in 2011 after...
Ukrainian Commandos Decimate Russian Mechanized Force Using Racing Hobby Drones
SHENZHEN, CHINA – MARCH 28: A DJI First-Person View (FPV) drone is seen at Mission Hills Golf Club … [+] on March 28, 2021 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by Liang Xiashun...
Russian Wildberries Shows Tech Companies Increasingly Domestic, Less Foreign
Russia’s woman-founded and woman-owned e-commerce company, Wildberries, is seeing the benefit of … [+] foreign firms leaving the market because of sanctions. (Photo Illustration by Rafael ...
Russian Sausage Tycoon Dies By Suicide In Hotel Fall—Just The Latest Russian Elite (Including Putin Critics) To Die Mysteriously
Topline Russian sausage magnate Pavel Antov, a lawmaker who criticized the war on Ukraine this summer, mysteriously died at a hotel in India on Saturday while traveling for his birthday—becoming the l...
Crypto Mining Bill Proposal Postponed by Russian Parliament
2 hours ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News The measure was introduced to Russia’s State Duma in November. Most Russian authorities continue to oppose legalizing cryptocurrencies. State Duma members will c...
Russian Jamming Fails To Stop More Drone Attacks
Russia extended its attempts to jam satellite navigation systems after the drone attack on Engels Airbase on December 5th. Open-source data show a huge ‘bubble’ of jamming signals around Moscow and se...
Ukrainian Steals Cryptocurrencies From Russian Dark Web Market
43 mins ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News The crypto donation of almost $25,000 was sent to the Ukrainian nonprofit Enjoying Life. The Ukrainian and his associates were able to access the marketplace’s “...
The Ukrainian Army’s Jaeger Brigades Are Its Middleweight Forest-Fighters
71st Jaeger Brigade troopers. Ukrainian army photo The Ukrainian army grew fast in the months before, and after, a 200,000-man Russian army rolled into northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, widening...
Ukraine’s Artillery Did The Most Killing Around Kyiv, Ultimately Saving The City From Russian Occupation
A Ukrainian army 2S7 howitzer in action. Ukrainian army photo The Russian army’s plan, in the early hours of its wider invasion of Ukraine back in February, was to roll straight from Belarus and south...
Ukrainian Steals Bitcoin From Russian Darknet Market, Donates to Charity – Bitcoin News
A Ukrainian living in the U.S. has reportedly hacked a major drug market on the Russian dark web, diverting some of its crypto proceeds. The man says he donated the digital cash stolen from the illici...
How Ukraine’s 1st Tank Brigade Fought A Russian Force Ten Times Its Size—And Won
The 1st Tank Brigade in training in 2021. Ukrainian army photo The 1st Tank Brigade, arguably Ukraine’s best tank formation, didn’t just survive the brutal bombardment that preceded Russia’s wider inv...