spooky lynx

So it's time to start Operation Saudi Freedom, eh?

I will be among the first protesters against it. No! We definitely don't need those failed nazi-filled states back into our country. Thanks, feed them yourself. We had already built all the necessary infrastructure needed to avoid any use of Baltic states for goods transit (their only value for Russia). I wonder what was arming and cheering that insane dictator Saakashvili, praising his wet dreams of solving separatist problems with brute force no matter of civilian casualties. Also I wonder what were the videos showing advancing Georgian tanks but labeled as 'Russian tanks attacking Georgia'. ...and returned hundreds of military hardware units (tanks, APCs, trucks, artillery units etc.) back to it from Crimea when the war in Donbass broke out. Then resumed to sell oil refinery products this year (including diesel fuel). Oh and I forgot about several Russian banks which still operate in Ukraine, paying taxes, giving loans etc.

Professional sport had become impossible without different kinds of drugs long time ago. Now it is more pharmaceutical competition than sport one. The main thing in this novel is that who has more influence over organizations - has cleaner reputation of its sportsmen. Sure the country which can easily arrest any sport official anywhere and hosts many headquarters may influence on them. "Those who pay - order the music".

I wonder what changes will it bring to Polish-Ukrainian relations, especially concerning current Ukrainian state policy of OUN-UPA and SS Galicina glorification.

I'd say it's more like 20 July plot.

Seems that Turkish militarymen are totally tired of casualties and other fecies happened in their country after Erdogan's try to intervene in Syria and bully with Russia. The result of Erdogan's policy is new guerilla war in the east of the country with large casualties among servicemen and civilians, large economic losses in tourism and other branches connected with it and reputation of the country as ISIS and other 'freedom fighters' safe heaven.

And who will judge him and maintain such tribunal?

Many of those persons were in big politics long before Putin got descent power. So it is disputable does he have any real influence on them... I can say about my region that abolishment of governor election did not change anything. The roads are still a nightmare, local economy is ruined etc. At the same time nearby Penza is very clean and good-looking city with growing industry. Despite their governor wasn't elected. The same goes to Krasnodar and Rostov (I've travelled through those regions some weeks ago and can compare).

Those oil dollars are nothing but taxes taken of export sells and extraction. It is only a part of the whole income from crude oil. Then, only Rosneft and Bashneft are state-owned oil companies. Others are either 100% private or only with part of state share. And the main thing is that the finance spending and the whole economy is a collective work. The president is not responsible for it alone. Since 1991 :) So it's completely wrong to blame Putin alone for economy flaws. Such guys as Kudrin, Gref and Nabiullina have even more response for it. Also I wonder why private-owned oil companies prefer not to invest in developing and enlarging oil refining, leaving high prices on fuel, but selling crude oil abroad. The same goes to wood, metals etc. Due to greed and incompetence of both state and private top-management the country is left only with basic industry, selling cheaper resources and buying more expensive conversion products from abroad.

Maybe I will surprise you but economy does not depend on Putin alone. Most of the companies are private, so it's up to private investors to decide what to do. It's not Putin's fault that private company Lukoil prefers to sell crude oil abroad and get fast income instead of its refining at domestic plants and invest in it. And it's not Putin's fault that local businessmen prefer getting fast income from selling crude materials and reselling imported goods rather than long-term investments in locally stationed manufacturing and development which can't bring them large income now together with low expenses.

Well, concidering mentioned referendum about Ukraine it looks like going opposite to the result isn't a problem. This. So it disrupts the official view on EU translated outside. Because if one of the leading union members wants to step out then it looks like there's something wrong with that union. Really wrong.

Main light choppers are Mi-2 and Ansat, both are used mainly for training duties, all other roles are performed by Mi-8 and Mi-24. From what I know about training helicopter regiment stationed nearby, Mi-2s are used at the beginning for very basic training, after some time student pilots start flying Ansats.

May someone explain me, why there are so many talks about that referendum? Is its result mandatory for the parliament? Or it's just about official EU pic that shows only unity and nice sides being torn? Some months ago there was another referendum in the Netherlands about possible EU membership for Ukraine. Do you remember the final reaction on its results? My point of view is that final reaction on Brexit will be the same - nothing will be done.

Our experience tells that they organize pretty fast and then start stealing even more and faster than old corrupts just because old ones got much already for themselves and for all their relatives and new ones are only at the beginning of it.

RCWC mod, Tonal Redux, ICP animation pack

Glad to hear. Real-life landscapes are always welcomed!

Very detailed map indeed. One thing that should be revised is some titles from sat images left on ground textures.

How many of them are to be produced?

I don't know about western Europe, but here the facts that first shots were made from hotel held by Svoboda party folks and shortly after the fall of Yanuk all trees that stood on the street where protesters were killed by shooters (that trees held some bullets and their traces) were cut are well known for more than a year already. Oh and let's remember video showing mr. Pashinsky, one of maidan leaders caught with sniper rifle in his car leaving the place and some masked folks with gun cases leaving the hotel near maidan together with some nationalist activists.

Addons: RCWC mod, GSS Afghanistan.

I wonder why such story wasn't brought to us four or five years ago.

Happy new year, comrades!

First video of Mi-28 in real combat I've ever seen.

Not all but many of them. Theater plays were always unhappy too. http://www.kp.ru/photo/gallery/48231/ - photo gallery containing list of actors who passed away up to 2013 year.

This novel is supposed to bring the curse on those who film it. Last 2005 year film made by Bladimir Bortko proves this - 18 actors who played in it died.