Media reporting is a bit hasty right now.

A Miracle in a corn field near Zhukovsky ( LII airfield in Moscow Region used as a newest international airport in addition to previous three: SVO, VNU, DMO): yesterday pilots of A-321 with 200+passengers onboard after collision with birds in both engines managed to belly-land on a corn field - everyone SURVIVED ))) Great crew!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zsoBt3I5B8

Very good and un-biased article about tragedy in Nenoxa polygon:

https://www.theamericanconservative....upon-scrutiny/

Rule 1: Any landing U walk away from is a good one!
 

I wonder what is the Russian word for 'Sully', :k_confused::yeah:whether the Hudson River or a nice tall well-stalked cornfield after an engine-kill birdstrike to soften the belly landing...I wonder if the Russian pilot remembered to announce "brace for impact" to the crew and passengers?:D:Kaleun_Salute:

Well Erdogan was in Moscow yesterday on MAKS-2019.

https://translate.google.ru/translat...Fdoc%2F4094365
Belorussia pursues deeper integration with Russia.


https://strategy.csr.ru/user/themes/...compressed.pdf
Russian developmental program. Not sure how to autotranslate it :(

https://youtu.be/Vo86J1WlgJ0
A good video, but sadly without translation, on Russia and Ukraine.

Russian court to rule in trial of historian who found Stalin-era graves (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-r...-idUSKCN24N0CZ

Then the band played 'Believe it if you like'

I don't think his case has anything with his gulag research - taking into account all that anti-stalinism and anti sovietism in our official media. If you'd live here you'd thought that our authorities are kind of shizo: We celebrate Victory, but we cover Lenin's Mausoleum with plywood; We are proud of Soviet space program but we make films about bloodthirsty Soviet officials who do everything to hopple engineers and cosmonauts; We are proud of Soviet sports program - but we make films about sportsmen who dreamed of defecting westwards; We hate 90-s and Perestroika but we build multi-billion Yeltsin-center and we let Gorbachev to live on rent from his fund. :o With all that films by Yury Dud' ( Colyma - a motherland of our fear) and tons of other antisoviet bsht which is on every corner, omnipresent museums of Gulag where eager attendants would tell you that "half-of-country-was-sitting-and-the-other-half-was-guarding", Ministers of Culture and Head of administration who take part in opening a memorial plates to Carl Mannerheim ( in St Petersburg! in a city which he helped to starve to death! )... to sue a person for anti-Stalin views or for gulag diggings in modern RF is a nonsence - (it's like in US someone would sue a person for resarches of McCarthysm ). I'd rather think that he either has done something wrong to his adopted daughter or there could be some disputed property - which is most frequent ground in cases with adopted children/harassment etc.

Makes a change from falling off balconies to the pavement below I suppose :hmmm:

Exotic poison? Russia.

I don't see any profit in poisoning this clown for our authorities - he has been known for some very strange "business" schemes which can be called "risky" at least and became so-called "oppositioner" after having problems with his shady deals. So as I always say - look for some property arguments in his inner circle. Or he must have drunk bad alcohol - doctors say that they've found alcohol in his blood (while his friends say otherwise - but as I've said - look into inner circle at first - cannot those "friends" be themselves associated?).
Another suggestion why government doesn't have anything in common with it - they've always freed him from police after multiple illegal meetings and always let him to have vacations on foreign 5-star resorts while some his followers who were arrested during those illegal meetings arranged by him were sentenсed to effective deprivation of liberty. According to Russian laws he also should have been sentenced to real imprisonment as constant organiser of illegal actions - but he always was freed after couple of days at police office. That makes think of his real role in political life...

But western press narrative would no doubt be: " Putin did it"...

Same here Dmitry ... whenever someone that opposed the Clintons people would say that Clinton did it :hmmm:

But what if both cases (US and Russia) have a left wing/right wing nut in powerful positions that take it upon themselves to correct the problem without a higher up being involved?

They would of course have to have some authority in order to get away with it.

Thank you for your input Dmitry :yep:

I was about to say the same about Clintons - in our social media they usually mentioned in discussions about suspicious misfortunes of public persons.

Sure I get your idea :yep:

Meahwhile a video from CCTV in Tomsk airport shows that notorious tea was brought to Navalny by his assistant - so again see what I've said: take a look into inner circle :ping:

Our President's head of PR Dmitry Peskov wishes well to Navalny and says that should Navalny need a transfer to Europe for healing - authorities would look into that matter and help. So Alexey once again will travel to 5-star foreign resort :-)

After what happened to the Skripals a great many in the west have suspicions and arguably correctly so.

^ I agree to a 100 percent. Clear message to all other critics, typical signature.

Russian doctors say leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny remains too ill to be transferred to Germany for treatment after a possible poisoning.

Mr Navalny has been in a coma since Thursday when he fell ill on a flight and his supporters called the doctors' decision "a direct threat to his life".

They have cited a report of "a deadly substance", dangerous not only to Mr Navalny but to all around him.

However, a doctor now says "no poisons have been detected" by the tests.

Mr Navalny is a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

His team suspects a poisonous substance was put in his tea at an airport cafe.

Activists in Germany have sent a plane to bring Mr Navalny to Berlin for treatment.

The head doctor at the hospital in Siberia where he is being treated said Mr Navalny's condition had improved a little, but that he was still unstable. Alexander Murakhovsky said legal questions would need to be resolved before Mr Navalny could be moved.

But Mr Navalny's team said it was "deadly" for him to remain in the hospital.

"The ban on the transportation of Navalny is an attempt on his life, which is being made right now by doctors and the deceitful authorities who sanctioned it," Mr Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53857563

Alexej Nawalny

Pjotr Wersilow

Sergej and Julia Skripal

Wladimir Kara-Mursa

Alexander Perepilichny

Alexander Litwinenko



Just the poison-related assassinations/attempts counted.

^ You forgot Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in the Tiergarten Berlin.

Of course, the Kreml never has anything to do with poisoning or removing critics, why would Putin do that?

Putin conspirative action. Putin's interest is not always Russia's interest, but most fail to see that.

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