Modern dress with the new insignia on it. Nothing much else. The old imperial dress is horribly out of date for modern warfare.
Russia Resurgent - A TL
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Heh yeah. Let's just say the 2004 US elections and 2005 British Elections will be.....different.
reading the comments, it seems actually made in russia ice cream is highly popular and objectively good in its own right. So I could see it selling very well for many reasons - and quite well in China as well, given the new relative closeness between China and Russia.
Yeah. Food, technology, credit, etc are all things that Russia wants to export ITTL rather than just oil, so yes food exports will also take a somewhat center stage to increase the Russian economy
Can't say I really would fault that! That is certainly smart economic strategy.
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Why did the Russian security services assassinated Gaddafi considering that the assassination could have gone the opposite direction with a Libya civil war or with Gaddafi successor going anti Russian and pro NATO or hostile to both specially if the Libyan manage to connect it to the Russian government.
Does the imperial Family get money from the state? And have they got a lot of their Palaces back?
The people's taxes are raised by RUB 10, not a huge or noticeable difference at all to upkeep the royalty. Also, the Royalty has their imperial investments from which they draw money from and pay their own taxes. Yes they own all of their previous property like the palaces etc; though only ones owned by the House of Romanov. Others have been left untouched.
Chapter 22: Your No. 1 Guide on How to Not Poke a Bear
Chapter 22: Your No. 1 Guide on How to Not Poke a Bear
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The New York Times:
Russia Lambasts American President George W. Bush for accusations of supplying Iraqi insurgents with Weapons.
June 2nd
Recently in an interview with the CNN and the BBC, President Bush has accused the Czardom of Russia and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) of supplying the Iraqi insurgents with weapons and advisors on targeting American military personnel in the region. President Bush has gone on to state that should the current situation go on, then America could repudiate their strategic arms agreement with Russia which was signed a few years back which limited the number of nuclear weapons that both nuclear superpowers could have.
President Bush accusing Russia and the CSTO of supplying insurgents
President Bush accusing Russia and the CSTO of supplying insurgents
Chancellor Yavlinsky of the Czardom of Russia has lambasted the American government and President Bush for remarks today morning from an interview from the Kremlin.
“We received no proof of any Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. And we have received proof of unneeded and unwarranted aggression of the American Military against the normal Iraqi population. Yet the American government continues to aggravate the international society and community with petty accusations such as these. For the last four decades, America has provided no proof or justification for almost every action it has taken militarily and diplomatically and now they seem to be accusing us of such heinous acts. Unless the American government can provide direct proof of anything of the such, then these are baseless claims made by the American government to whip up nationalistic frenzy in the United States and make the normal people blind from the failures of their government.”
The American government has retaliated by stating that the control of Iraqi territory would be given back to an Iraqi Interim Government and that it would be in the ‘best interests of the Russian government to settle economic scores in Iraq’. The Russian government has already made threatening moves in regard to this with Vice-Chancellor Boris Nemtsov already lambasting this move.
“America likes to portray itself as a bastion of freedom. Well, where is the freedom of economic movement here my friends?”
Due to this spike in tensions in the middle east, the government of Iran has announced that they shall be joining the CSTO on June 20th, around two weeks earlier than what was intended. They have stated that they shall support a legitimate government of Iraq chosen by the people and would not recognize a government in Iraq installed by America calling it ‘Gruesome Regime Change’.
In America, the government has come under heavy fire for the increasing costly Iraqi Insurgency. New Insurgent Armies have cropped up all over Iraq. The Iraqi Islamic Army (IIA), the Kurdish Iraqi Army (KIA), and the Iraqi National Liberation Army (INLA) etc to name a few. Already a few hundred to some thousand American troops have lost their lives in the insurgency and the government has been unable to meet the threat properly. According to onfield records, some isolated incidents of rape, torture and other warcrimes have been committed by the United States Army against the normal Iraqi people as retaliation for the insurgency. When the International Court of Justice brought this up yesterday, the American government threatened to cut off their funding of the ICJ. This has again led to multiple amounts of criticism being thrown at President Bush and his administration. His newfound war of attrition in Iraq and his war of words with Russia seems to be going extremely poorly.
Iraqi National Liberation Army Insurgents
The Flag being used by the Iraqi National Liberation Army.
Iraqi National Liberation Army Insurgents
The Flag being used by the Iraqi National Liberation Army.
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The Economic Journal:
New Iraqi government put into power as Russia expels American Consulate from St. Petersburg and Iran joins the CSTO
June 25th
The American government has officially handed over control of the country of Iraq to an interim government in Iraq releasing the country from military occupation in some manners. However military troops of America still remain and are currently involved in a massive guerilla war against the Iraqi insurgents. The CSTO organization has fully stated that:
“The Collective Security Treaty Organization does not recognize the new government of Iraq, and will only recognize a new free, and fairly elected Iraqi government as the legitimate successor of the government of Saddam Hussein. For now, Iraq is a government less state to the CSTO.”
Iran has also recently joined the CSTO and has brought their formidable military power into the organization and currently it is said that the mood in the Pentagon is pessimistic. News has also arrived that the Russian government has closed the consulate of the United States in St. Petersburg and has ordered all staff to leave the Russian nation by the end of the month, or be detained and interrogated. The Russian government has stated that this move is the result of America’s continuous ‘baseless claims of Russian aid to the insurgents’. President Bush has not backed down on his rhetoric and he is quickly finding himself becoming increasingly unpopular. In Europe, the president’s pictures are burnt and somewhat ironically many countries in Europe have criticized the American government. France, Germany and even many MPs from Great Britain and the Conservative Party of Great Britain have been quick to criticize the American President and the current diplomatic situation has become even more fragile.
America has announced that they shall keep around 40,000 troops in Iraq in military bases and the new interim government has given access to America for this. In retaliation, the Russian government has announced two new objectives: the formation of a ‘Persian Expeditionary Army’ with around 35,000 men which will be permanently stationed in Iran. This army is said to be composed of Russians, Central Asians and Azeris, and will be under the overall command of the Eurasian Union State. Iran has accepted this offer of stationing these troops in Iran. In Sudan, the government of Omar Al-Bashir and the Kremlin have reached a quickfire agreement which will allow Russia to gain Port Sudan as a friendly naval base, and station 10,000 troops in Sudan in new military bases.
Imperial Russian Navy Ships in Port Sudan after receiving basing rights.
CSTO troops arriving in Iran.
Imperial Russian Navy Ships in Port Sudan after receiving basing rights.
CSTO troops arriving in Iran.
The American government has been criticized for ‘forcing’ Russia’s hand into these measures, and the potential of Russian naval forces operating out of Port Sudan (for 25 years according to the agreement drawn up between Khartoum and Kremlin), is a serious enough threat.
However despite these military developments there is a side development that not many countries have been able to see properly. In the last eight years, Russia has become a net exporter with the gap between their import cost and export revenue expanding every year making the Russian economy grow exponentially every year. Should Russia cut off exports of Titanium, Precious Metals, and other goods to the American nation, economists believe that it would very well result in a military economic recession in America, as recent reports have found the American industrial complex to be increasingly dependent on Russian metallic exports and imports. Some advisors have warned that this could be one medium of Russia indirectly controlling and predicting the state and capability of the American military. Many advisors have also cried out to diffuse the situation that is currently developing. Russian exports of grain, caviar, metals, oil, food, automobiles, technology etc into Europe is also very lucrative and Europe, and by extension the European Union have shown themselves very reluctant to protect American economic interests right a few months after the EU has reached an exponential trade deal with Russia.
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The Sun:
Britain announces increased spending in military by $5 Billion as diplomatic fallout between Russia and America widens!
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The Euro News
Russia and China engage in talks as President Bush pushes his accusations against Russia.
July 11th, 2004
The Czardom of Russia and the People’s Republic of China have quickly become involved in negotiations with one another. The rising economic power of China has made many American economists and American advisors wary, and the current mirrored situation with Russia has made the two formal rivals of the Sino-Soviet Split look forward for rapprochement.
The Chinese government has announced that they are currently in talks with Russia over the construction of an oil pipeline running from Vladivostok to Harbin. It is said that this would uplift much of the Chinese oil dependency from the Straits of Malacca, and the current negotiations with Russia seem to be going on pretty well. The Russian government has also sent overtures to North Korea and South Korea with the permission of Beijing to become a part of this deal to create a Vladivostok-Harbin-Pyongyang-Seoul Pipeline. The Russian government has assured Seoul that any pipeline of the sort would only be controlled by Russia, and not China or North Korea so any threat of cutting off supplies would not be substantial from their part. Both Pyongyang and Seoul have stated that they would be willing to further negotiations over this matter.
In other news, Libya has announced that they shall align themselves militarily with Russia, however are willing to join the free market and free trading block of the CSTO Economic Block. The Russian government and CSTO both have expressed their willingness to accept this, and both nations are to begin negotiations in the near future.
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I am assuming, with my national bias, Russia handshakes Vietnam at some point around 2006-2007 with promises for certain economic aids and better scholarship programs for Vietnamese.
Other than that, smartphones still arise as OTL, but the market is a lot more diverse by 2015. (This sounds a bit random though)