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Myself, I doubt it would be changed given how iconic it is and how old the name itself is. Wiki has a little snip on the origins of the name:

Dedovchina is NOT a policy. It's hazing. EDIT: why was Red Square renamed? The name predates the communist period.

I just looked at the first part of the TL and realized it mentioned in a 2012 article the presence of American, Russian and Tajik troops in Afghanistan. Was that retroconed away? Also Haq or no Haq would USA be willing to leave Afghanistan without capturing Bin Laden first? Might be...

Well, I notice you found a way to incorporate Zhirinovsky's OTL comments on British Royal Family being bloodsuckers into the TL :D Who is that? I don't recognize the name. Made me laugh. :D Didn't you have a deviantart picture of Zhirinovsky as the Joker from The Dark Knight? I feel like you...

Gaddafi initially promoted pan-arabism. Only later, when pan-arabism fell through, did he switch to pan-africanism.

It might be interesting to have Stănculescu remain in power. It would mean that Belarus and Romania are the last bastions of Communism in Europe (at least I assume Romania is at lest somewhat "red" given that you described Stănculescu as an "unapologetic communist")

By the way, how are UIS's Balkan republics reacting to Burbulis vs Zhirinovsky thing? Who are they supporting? And are we going to revisit Romania soon? I recall you said you had plans for the country and its dictatorship to appear towards the end of the TL. But I'm guessing you had Saddam fill...

I think this is the first time we hear about Turkmenistan leaving the UIS. Is Niyazov still in charge of an independent Turkmenistan? I'm guessing that he might not have yet established his personality cult TTL given that he could not act fully uncoupled from Moscow until the nation’s...

”You think we will see”? I thought this was already established as being so in a past update: Well, we know UIS actions, even if grounded in self-interest, result in decreased bloodshed in Africa. And the war in Kosovo was less bloody than OTL according to Pellegrino Shots. Also UIS gave...

Anyone want to try to come up with a caption for this one? :p

Nice update! This may seem bit out-of-the-blue but... assuming the movie isn't butterflied away, how do you see the (greater than OTL) disunity of Afghanistan impacting the plot of the first Iron Man film? Also, did you happen to see my last review/question set? I ask because it was the...

So Senator Johnson is wrong and the "Russian Foreign Legion" wasn't meant to fix UIS army "manpower issues"? It was a complex plan by Lebed all along? Also, how prominent and well-known does the "Russian Foreign Legion" become in the West? Would villains like Deus Ex's Yelena Fedorova become...

I’m a little unclear as to the initial purpose of the “Russian Foreign Legion”. Sure, you have them emerge as defenders of Lebed’s interests in Africa but, as per Senator Johnson’s description they were initially recruited because “UIS military had been badly degraded by years of sanctions and...

But how is UIS dealing with the decline of the population in general rather than the related economic problems specifically? I know you had Lebed in 1990s promote North Korean refugee settlement in the UIS but how long does this policy last? We know that 1) apparently Zhirinovsky encouraged...

Pellegrino Shots had Gorbachev and his wife flee the UIS during the Israel Embassy Crisis. It would be interesting to know what they are up to. My guess it has the same status as it had during the days of the U.S.S.R.

So if the brain drain is worse than OTL, how does the UIS deal with it? AFAIK Russian academia hasn't fully recovered from the OTL brain drain and Putin tried to do things like give incentives for academic who left during the collapse of the USSR to return to Russia. EDIT: and what is the UIS...

So how is the London Russian community different from the OTL one? Is it bigger? Also, in an earlier update, didn't you say that many Russian immigrants in UK joined the British Defense League and have anti-Muslim/anti-Chechen attitudes? You seem to have somehow forgotten Bassel al-Assad and...

Pellegrino Shots, I was wondering if we will here more on how the events of the TL impacted Turkey? How did the 1997 "post-modern coup" turn out here? Was it butterflied away? If AKP was formed and came to power like in our TL, were there any attempts to coup it? What's going on in Turkish...

Not sure if this is possible given that the "European region" has, to my knowledge, higher population base to start with, closer to the European trading centers, more hospitable environment (Siberia may not be all frozen tundra like is often portrayed in popular fiction but it does have big...

Then its a rather crappy parody. The SCO has gained grand total of one new member (Uzbekistan) since its formation in 1996. Which is why I said it's "closest Russian equivalent of NATO-type organisation" I'd argue that the CSTO is actually far less united than NATO or the Warsaw Pact.