Monument 40 Years of Victory

Russia: Putin lays flowers at monument to Soviet soldiers

Russian President Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the monument to Soviet soldiers in the Marfino village, located 7 km (4.3 miles) away from Staraya Russa, Monday.

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Baltiysk, Russia A City Out Of Limits For Foreigners

A beautiful city, unfortunately, found out the hard way, it is out of limits for foreigners. It is a military zone of extreme importance for Russia therefore, we can’t visit. I did so.

USS Carr FFG-52 arrival to Baltiysk, Russia

USS Carr FFG-52 arrival to Baltiysk, Russia

Russians Honor Slain Putin Critic 40 Days After His Assassination

Hundreds of Russians honored slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov on the bridge in Moscow where he was gunned down 40 days ago.
Flowers and a sign showing a shadowy gunman rest at the spot Nemtsov was murdered. It's a Russian Orthodox tradition to honor the deceased 40 days after the death. Nemtsov, a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, was memorialized with flowers, photos and signs. People also observed a minute of non-silence at 11 a.m., whistling or honking their car horns.

Why is Russia a threat to world peace?

Since Russia's invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine last year, President Putin has continued to have a belligerent and threatening stance. Although the West has imposed punishing economic sanctions on Russia, Putin shows no signs of removing his military presence from the Donbas region of Ukraine. Instead, he has adopted a decidedly provocative stance towards the West. In recent months, Moscow has boasted about Russia’s nuclear weapons capabilities and has mounted provocative military incursions into NATO airspace.

Russia now poses a serious threat to the existing European security order, which Moscow no longer recognises. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has shattered the comfortable belief that the use of force among leading European powers had been banished.

There is growing anxiety, especially in the Baltic countries and Scandinavia, about the dangers of further Russian military provocations. There is a growing realisation that Moscow’s new military strategy relies on the early recourse to tactical nuclear weapons in the event that it has to defend what it defines as its sovereign territory against a superior conventional military force.

Serious questions surround the issue of whether any NATO country, including Germany, would have the fortitude to defy Russia militarily. Although Russia’s military forces are still not comparable with those of the former Soviet Union, there is little doubt that Moscow can now use decisive military force in what it terms the near abroad.

Little of this seems to be understood in Canberra, where we have seriously rundown our Russian analytical capabilities. Our political leaders seem to be of the view that Russia is a weak country that is far away and of no strategic consequence. That is a seriously mistaken view in my opinion and I will seek to demonstrate that there are significant Australian strategic interests at risk here.

Professor Paul Dibb is Emeritus Professor of strategic studies in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the ANU. He was Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre from 1991 to 2004. Before that he held the positions of Deputy Secretary of Defence, Director of the Joint Intelligence Organisation and Head of the National Assessments Staff.

He studied the former Soviet Union for over 20 years both as a senior intelligence officer and ANU academic. His book the Soviet Union – the Incomplete Superpower was published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London in 1986, reprinted 1987 and second edition 1988.

Image courtesy: Russian Presidential Executive Office

At the Beginning of Glorious Days (Episode 1) (1980) movie

At the end of the 17th century Russia sustained huge losses in trade as it had no outlet to the sea. The young tsar Pyotr I begins a construction in Voronezh of the Russian fleet and occupies Azov fortress. At this time among boyars the dissatisfaction with government of the young monarch were engendering

At the Beginning of Glorious Days (Episode 1) (1980) movie

Genres: Drama, History
Production Co: Gorky Film Studio

Directed by Sergey Gerasimov
Writing Credits: Sergey Gerasimov, Yuri Kavtaradze, Aleksei Tolstoy (novel)
Music by Vladimir Martynov
Cinematography by Sergey Filippov, Horst Hardt

Cast:
Dmitriy Zolotukhin as Czar Peter the Great
Tamara Makarova
Natalya Bondarchuk
Nikolay Eryomenko
Mikhail Nozhkin
Peter Reusse
Eduard Bocharov
Lyubov Polekhina
Lyubov Germanova
Anatoliy Barantsev
Roman Filippov
Yuriy Moroz
Vladimir Kashpur
Aleksandr Belyavskiy
Nikolay Grinko
Boris Khmelnitskiy
Marina Levtova
Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Antonida Buynosova
Ivan Lapikov
Ulrike Mai as Anna
Evgeniy Markov as Prokofiy Voznitsyn
Vitaliy Matveev as Iuda