A New Beginning - Our 1992 Russian Federation

[Red Angel]

Something I just remembered, what happened to Gorbachev and how is he viewed in Russia...?

 

[America4thOfJuly]

Please choose who will be the next leader of China:
A) Xi Jinping
B) Li Keqiang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang) (Reformism and liberalism)
C) Bo Xilai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Xilai) (Neo-maoism/new left)

I'm unsure if this is too late to choose, but I choose option B. Mainly because I want to see the outcome of China reforming

 

[Shikikan]

Today we vote on infrastructural projects:

1. Should Russia pursue one or more of these following projects:
A) Bering Strait crossing (either bridge or tunnel)
B) The TKM–World Link (planned 6,000-kilometer (3,700 mi) link between Siberia and Alaska to deliver oil, natural gas, electricity, and rail passengers to the United States from Russia)
C) co-finance the US–Canada–Russia–China railway (China is considering construction of a US-Canada-Russia-China 350 km/h (220 mph) bullet train that would include a 200-kilometer (120 mi) undersea tunnel crossing the Bering Strait and would allow passengers to travel between the United States and China in about two days.)
D) Trans-Eurasian Belt Development (another possible collaboration between China and Russia was reported, part of the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development, a transportation corridor across Siberia that would also include a road bridge with gas and oil pipelines between the easternmost point of Siberia and the westernmost point of Alaska. It would link London and New York by rail and superhighway via Russia if it were to go ahead.)

2. Please write down, how Russian can in collaboration with EU and Asian powers like India, China and Japan increase Eurasian interconnectivity.


Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing#History

1. A-D for all of them, so everyone else is forced to consider each others internal and external affairs due to many projects.
2. I choose @ruffino plans

 

[PRM]

Something I just remembered, what happened to Gorbachev and how is he viewed in Russia...?

I'm thinking he might be remembered as the man who paved the way for Russian Democracy.

 

[Whiteshore]

Today we vote on infrastructural projects:

1. Should Russia pursue one or more of these following projects:
A) Bering Strait crossing (either bridge or tunnel)
B) The TKM–World Link (planned 6,000-kilometer (3,700 mi) link between Siberia and Alaska to deliver oil, natural gas, electricity, and rail passengers to the United States from Russia)
C) co-finance the US–Canada–Russia–China railway (China is considering construction of a US-Canada-Russia-China 350 km/h (220 mph) bullet train that would include a 200-kilometer (120 mi) undersea tunnel crossing the Bering Strait and would allow passengers to travel between the United States and China in about two days.)
D) Trans-Eurasian Belt Development (another possible collaboration between China and Russia was reported, part of the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development, a transportation corridor across Siberia that would also include a road bridge with gas and oil pipelines between the easternmost point of Siberia and the westernmost point of Alaska. It would link London and New York by rail and superhighway via Russia if it were to go ahead.)

2. Please write down, how Russian can in collaboration with EU and Asian powers like India, China and Japan increase Eurasian interconnectivity.


Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing#History

1. Support all four plans!
2. Support the @ruffino plan!

 

[Undeadmuffin]

I fear that a lot of people's who vote D underestimate how much it would cost to build and maintain everything. Man, all these projects are costly as hell but A don't bring any direct revenue, C don't bring pork to our domestic industries and D kinda spread too far IMO (kinda why I voted for B)

EDIT: Maybe money isn't an issue and this is a very soft alt-history voting game with Russia rolling 6 for fun, tho

 

[shubham rai]

I fear that a lot of people's who vote D underestimate how much it would cost to build and maintain everything. Man, all these projects are costly as hell but A don't bring any direct revenue, C don't bring pork to our domestic industries and D kinda spread too far IMO (kinda why I voted for B)

EDIT: Maybe money isn't an issue and this is a very soft alt-history voting game with Russia rolling 6 for fun, tho

Money is an issue, the reason we choose option D , because We are not going to be alone in this project.

 

[panpiotr]

Something I just remembered, what happened to Gorbachev and how is he viewed in Russia...?

I would than much more positive than OTL, due to development of Russia iTTL and no chaos in the 90s. So i would say, a flawed leader who wanted to do good.

 

[Shikikan]

I would than much more positive than OTL, due to development of Russia iTTL and no chaos in the 90s. So i would say, a flawed leader who wanted to do good.

How does he view ITTL Russia? And speaking of Soviet nostalgia, is the population still nostalgic about the former USSR but is currently mostly happy in the current situation?

 

[Jaenera Targaryen]

How does he view ITTL Russia? And speaking of Soviet nostalgia, is the population still nostalgic about the former USSR but is currently mostly happy in the current situation?

I imagine a lot of Georgians still think Stalin is the greatest Georgian ever, much like IOTL.

 

[panpiotr]

I imagine a lot of Georgians still think Stalin is the greatest Georgian ever, much like IOTL.

basically like this:

 

[panpiotr]

How does he view ITTL Russia?

Generally positively give TTLs Russia standing, but does not like geopolitical tensions and rivarly with the West, think that Russia and the West should work together against China.

And speaking of Soviet nostalgia, is the population still nostalgic about the former USSR but is currently mostly happy in the current situation?

I would say that among older population, which is very satisfied with current situation of Russia, but lack this "grand purpose" communism offered in contrast to capitalism, thought many now believe instead in Russian world and Moscow as Third Rome - concepts that were propagated strongly for last 20 years or so.

 

[PRM]

Generally positively give TTLs Russia standing, but does not like geopolitical tensions and rivarly with the West, think that Russia and the West should work together against China.

I agree with him there.

 

[PRM]

Hey @panpiotr will Obama and Nabiullina meet soon? I'm kinda interested to see how a summit between Obama and a Russian president who is A) not corrupt and B) Is actually a little bit as Liberal as he is goes.

 

[panpiotr]

Hey @panpiotr will Obama and Nabiullina meet soon? I'm kinda interested to see how a summit between Obama and a Russian president who is A) not corrupt and B) Is actually a little bit as Liberal as he is goes.

In next proper chapter yes

 

[PRM]

In next proper chapter yes

Great. Thank you. Man it's weird looking forward to a summit between a U.S. President and a Russian President after everything that's happened in OTL. But hey that's the great beauty of alternate history isn't it.

 

[ThePinkRabbit]

Great. Thank you. Man it's weird looking forward to a summit between a U.S. President and a Russian President after everything that's happened in OTL. But hey that's the great beauty of alternate history isn't it.

All of the right choices were made during the early days.

 

[PRM]

All of the right choices were made during the early days.

Yes it has and I thank everybody who voted for the right choices in the early days.

 

[Ozpin]

I think it would be hilarious if we get a dark horse victory of Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

 

[PRM]

I think it would be hilarious if we get a dark horse victory of Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

Oh please no. He'd be as bad if not worse than Putin.