The rising threat of Mother Russia

[MONOLITH]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,233578,00.html

[MONOLITH]

Check this out.....


"Trepashkin said that an officer of the Russian Federal Security Service, known by its Russian acronym FSB, met with him in August 2002 and offered him the chance to join a group targeting Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled Russian tycoon living in London, and Litvinenko. He said he refused to cooperate with the team, whose task was to "mop up" Berezovsky, Litvinenko and their accomplices.

An FSB spokesman refused to comment on Trepashkin's claim.

He said he had earlier talked of the FSB's using poisons that could be applied to a car handle, a telephone receiver, an air conditioner or elsewhere to kill a victim without leaving a trace.

Trepashkin was arrested in October 2003 and convicted on charges of divulging state secrets while investigating allegations of FSB involvement in a series of deadly apartment bombings that killed about 300 people in Moscow and two other cities in 1999. The government blamed the explosions on Chechnya-based rebels, but Litvinenko and other Kremlin critics alleged they were staged by authorities as a pretext for launching the current Chechen war.

The FSB, where Trepashkin worked until 1997, alleged that he had been recruited by British agents to collect compromising materials on the explosions with the aim of discrediting the Russian security agency."

[MONOLITH]

It's like magic; I predict it, then Putin does it.  


$20bn gas project seized by Russia

The Russian authorities are also threatening BP over alleged environmental violations on a Siberian field in what is seen as a wider attempt to seize back assets handed over to foreign companies when energy prices were low.
The moves will alarm many investors in the City of London as Shell and other share prices are hit, but the news will also increase ministers' concerns about Britain's energy security.


Wake up world....Putin is unfolding a masterful chess game.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1970064,00.html


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-2499998,00.html









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[MONOLITH]

Putin rolls on.....



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,237045,00.html





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[MONOLITH]

And on...


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=&sid=aFF1FYXdrOqo

[MONOLITH]

And on....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/12/22/cnbp22.xml

[DaSmerg]

Russia restarts Cold War patrols -BBC News

[farmboy]

I'll be interested to see how this unfolds in the next decade

One and a half years later...
We still haven't dropped this subject here, it keeps coming back up periodically.  That's not a good sign.

[MONOLITH]

I told you so.  

[DaSmerg]

UK Typhoons shadow Russian bomber  "Two new RAF Typhoon jets shadowed a Russian bomber heading for Britain, the Ministry of Defence has said.
The jets were scrambled on Friday 17 August to identify the Russian aircraft, which turned back before it reached UK skies..." -BBC News

[Da Fish]

Meh, russia flexing its muscle isnt anything to be suprised at.......... Mono warned us ages ago.....

What got me was that the Typhoon did escorting/shadowing.......... when did it enter service?

*runs off to try google!*

[Rainier]

Damnit... Mono jinxed us...

[SilentEdge]

I've got some great photo's of the Tu-95 from up close back when my dad was flying  fleet protection in an F-14. I'll dig em up.

Afterthought:
It's really a shame we've already begun dismantling our best fleet protection fighters now that Russia is stepping up the "patrols".

[DaSmerg]

I'm kinda wondering when (or even if) we will see the Ruskies start to go to the drawing boards for modern replacements of the Bear.

I say if because do they still have the engineering know how left?  They've got the bucks again to start funding a build up of sorts.

[MONOLITH]

Anyone notice what Putin did this morning?   Dissolved his government so he could single handedly name his successor, 3 months ahead of any supposed elections.

Add to that their announcement to the world that they have developed the "Father of all Bombs", a vaccuum bomb 4 times more powerful than the US's "MOAB", which does damage equal to that of a nuke, without the environmental radiation damage.

Add to that his orders for their their long range bombers to start patrolling far reaches of the globe.



Hello Mother Russia.


I told you so. This thread started in 2005.  

[farmboy]

source?

[FritzDaKat]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=father+of+all+bombs

[Lostroth]

there was a show on Discovery called Jetstream. it's about 8 pilots training to become RCAF Fighter Pilots. one of the episodes contained a picture of CF-18 Hornet intercepting a Russian Bomber plane over Canadian Airspace. i thought it was from the 1980's. turns out it was from 2007! I couldn't believe Russia is still testing our intercept times. Tried to find the picture, but had no luck. i'll keep trying.

Figured i would mention that in here. Hard to ignore the Russians when they are so openly testing us.

EDIT: Found it!

[SilentEdge]

I've got some great photo's of the Tu-95 from up close back when my dad was flying fleet protection in an F-14...

I can't be topped by Lostroth like that:

[SilentEdge]

Since we dug up the thread again...

Add to that their announcement to the world that they have developed the "Father of all Bombs", a vaccuum bomb 4 times more powerful than the US's "MOAB", which does damage equal to that of a nuke, without the environmental radiation damage.

That ended up being a sham. While it's entirely possible that they created the "FOAB" it:
1) Isn't in production beyond the "haha we beat you" phase.
2) It cannot be dropped from anything except a cargo plane, a fact they lied about.
3) It is likely a fuel air explosive, something that the MOAB is not. They lied again.