Russia Resurgent - A TL

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Maybe to annoy the French the Russian government should invite the claimants to the French throne to Russia to a public royal audiance and meeting with the main Russian political leaders and hint that a restoration to a monarchy/empire for France would be welcome both politically and economically by Russia
 
Gabriel126

Gabriel126

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George Mathew said:
You know it's kind of depressing to see a Russia where things went better not worse. I mean Russia rn looks so screwed.
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Tell my about it my country is in same boat that has been for a long time half sunken well better drown that depression in white wine🍷 us georgians really like to drink our depression to death
 
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    • Sarthak

    Sarthak

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    This is a small map update

    Light green denotes major railroads built after 1995.
    Brown denotes major roadways or highways built after 1995 (note that the norther you go the more the roads become seasonal roads)
    the blue box denotes major ports that have built after 1995.
    Consider this a small graphic + economic update.
     
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    • QTXAdsy

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    Bit of a late response but I'm loving Georgia's new flag, Cornish looking but really smart all the same! :p

    Anyway, interesting to see Russia getting involved in Central America with Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. Maybe get Guatemala and Costa Rica to join in in which see's them, with Russian influence, having a closer union with each other, probably not reunification of the Federal Republic of Central America (which doesn't get covered in many TL's I've noticed) but perhaps their own EU of shorts to help their economies grow?

    With the Purple Revolution seemly over in Europe, unless we go ASB with Italy, Germany and Portugal bringing back their monarchies! :openedeyewink: Wonder if the Purple Revolution might happen elsewhere in the world either in South America or the Middle East?

    Finally one other pop culture thing to add...James Bond. With the Russians being in a better place here, wonder if the upcoming film ITTL, QoS, might have differences to it's OTL plot? I do feel that with Russia in better place here that the James Bond series has gone in a slightly different direction post Cold War, interesting to think.
     
    Gabriel126

    Gabriel126

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    As a Georgian may suggest another flag like on of this would by better in my mind thanks that's just my thought as a Georgian
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    Chapter 37: Afghanistan is Burning! We want to live our lives! Begone!
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    Sarthak

    Chapter 37: Afghanistan is Burning! We want to live our lives! Begone!

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    www.eurasiatimes.com

    NATO and Allies announce new drive in Afghanistan to defeat Taliban

    April 10th, 2007

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its allies have announced a new drive forward in Afghanistan to oust the Taliban and defeat them once and for all. The Afghan nation has been mired in total warfare ever since the fall of the Afghan Monarchy and the initiation of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The War in Afghanistan for the Soviets and Russians may be over by two decades already, however the war in Afghanistan continues to escalate in scale for NATO and its allies.

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    American troops in Afghanistan.     ​

    Abandoned by the United States in its economic dealings with India to counter Russian influence in the region, the government of Pakistan under Nasir Ali Khan has threatened to close of routes to Afghanistan against the NATO coalition in Afghanistan.

    “What you are doing in Afghanistan is nothing short of Murder. Warlords roam the streets in Afghanistan because of your previous funding of them, and now you fight them bringing in chaos to already a chaos ridden country. I say withdraw. Withdraw now when you still have some of your dignity by you. What is needed in Afghanistan right now is for the coalition of Afghan neighbors to intervene collectively as one and restore the previous status quo of the pre-Soviet invasion era in Afghanistan. Pakistan will not tolerate these continued spillovers of the War of Afghanistan into its borders. This is the first and final warning that Pakistan is willing to make.” – Nisar Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan.

    In total contrast to what the Pakistani government is asking the alliance of NATO is thinking of intervening in Afghanistan in an even wider scale. NATO ally Australia, and its Prime Minister John Howards has even already announced that 300 Australian soldiers from the Australian Special Air Service will be deployed in Afghanistan in the anticipation of a stronger general offensive from the Taliban.

    The Eurasian Union Secretary, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has stated in a press conference yesterday after an emergency Eurasian Union Parliamentary meeting that the Eurasian Union and its constituent states of Russia, Ukraine, Moldavia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan would not wish for the Afghan war to spill over into the Central Asian states and that the current situation was not in favor of the western coalition. Tokayev has also stated that ramping up the number and amount of American troops and NATO troops in Afghanistan will be nothing short of ‘disaster’.

    In an attack against this resolution from the Eurasian Union and its constituent states, the French government has attacked the Russian government and the Eurasian Union stating,

    Should we allow Afghanistan to fall back into anarchy then?

    In an astounding move, Crown Prince Ahmad Shah Khan of Afghanistan, the pretender to the now defunct Afghan throne has stated in response,

    Afghanistan wasn’t in anarchy before you came bringing your ideals into a place that has no place for foreign ideals.

    Normally the Crown Prince is a man who shies away from public life, however the man has recently come into spotlight by trying to mediate between the Afghan government, Taliban and NATO. The man has clearly stated that the current situation in Afghanistan cannot be allowed to be escalated even further. The government of Afghanistan has supported the Crown Prince and has stated that the current situation was not in favor of a general NATO offensive.

    The Russian government has also stated that they shall not allow further ‘breaches’ in the airspace of Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. In the past few years a small amount of NATO warplanes and fighter planes have strayed into Turkmen and Tajik skies, however in response to the escalation of hostilities in Afghanistan, Russian Chancellor Yavlinsky has stated in a press conference yesterday “Russia will send more than 100 warplanes divided into 12 squadrons to Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Every single breach of the Tajik and Turkmen skies is a breach of their sovereignty and their neutrality. Planes caught in the skies will be forced to land and their pilots detained before being deported back. This escalation will not and cannot stand.”

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    Russian Warplanes in Tajikistan.     ​

    Only the future knows what will happen now.

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    www.economictimes.com

    Russia announces new transportation reform!

    April 14th, 2007

    The Russian government has initiated a new transportation reform within the Czardom of Russia. In the past decade or so the Russian transportation industry has managed to grow immensely due to the relative increase in their economy and the massive economic growth, and as such multiple new railway lines and roadways accompanied by new ports have sprung up across the Russian nation. However by this point, the Russian government is also now stepping headfirst into their first serious transportation reform plan.

    Let us go briefly into the basis and history of the Russian transportation system before going further on the Russian government’s plan, for much of it won’t make sense for men and people who are not informed about Russia’s transportation system.

    Russia has the world’s second largest railway network, behind only the United States of America, with a total track length of 94,157 kilometers as of 2006. 90,000 kilometers of this uses a broad rail gauge of 1,520 mm, while a narrow gauge of 1,067 mm is used in the rest of the railway tracks, most of the latter is mostly found in Sakhalin, Crimea and Kamchatka. Electrified track accounts for around half of the Russian railway network, totaling 46,000 kilometers, however it carries the vast majority of the Russian railway traffic. As of 2006, the Russian railway sector employs around 600,000 people, which is around 1.7% of the entire GDP population, something that is both a boon and curse of the massive Russian landmass. The Russian railway system operates Metro systems in all major Russian cities as well. The Russian railway is also connected to various foreign countries through Gauge breaks in the railway, like Finland (who uses the same gauge standard as Russia), Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea.

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    Russian railways metro.     ​

    As of 2006, the Russian nation has 1,200,000 km of roads, of which 1,050,000 are paved roads. Some of these make up the Russian Federal Motorway as well. Russia’s road system is perhaps one of the major sectors in which the government has invested in these past years to create innovation in the economy in a more fluid manner, and it has paid off, as the Russian motorways have become very efficient in their use, and many people working in the service sector are employed in the Russian roadway systems and motorways.

    In light of these, the Russian transportation named the ‘Roadway Act of 2007 proposes the following’:-

    ‘The draft state program of the Transport System Development was submitted by the Ministry of Transport in execution of Clause 2 of Chancellorship Executive Order no. 596 of the long term economic policy of the Czardom.

    The state program was drafted with due consideration for the provisions of the concept of Long-term socioeconomic development of the Russian Czardom to 2020; the transport strategy of 2030; the railway transport development strategy to 2030; the concept for the development of the Airport Network to 2020; and the concept to Overhaul the System for Managing Inland Waterways. These documents set forth the long term priorities of the state transport policy:-

    • Well balanced and cost effective development of the transport infrastructure through increasing the capacity of the transport network, eliminating gaps and bottlenecks, expanding major transport hubs, creating and developing special economic zones.
    • Provide transport support through the comprehensive development of the Russian Far East and Siberia, including the development of railways and roads, which play a key role in the development of these territories, increase air traffic frequency and inland waterway traffic to provide transport support for area which cannot be effectively reached by other means of transport.
    • Create and introduce new transport and logistics technologies for improving the quality of transport services and making them more affordable
    • Renew the air fleet and river going fleet, introduce new generation aircraft and new technology for sea transportation.
    • Ensure the comprehensive safety of the transport system and its sustained operation.
    • Primarily convert the advanced ground, onboard and satellite communications and navigation systems and networks, air traffic observation, and control systems and networks, ensure the cost effective operation of Russia’s air traffic control system under conditions of the estimated increase in nationwide air traffic frequencies.
    The Russian has allocated a massive $100 Billion in project for this multi-year superproject for increasing connectivity of the nation and developing the transport system of the nation even further.

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    www.euronews.com

    Lithuania and Latvia Announce NATO Accession in Response to Estonian CSTO Accession

    April 22nd, 2007

    The two Baltic states of Lithuania and Latvia have both announced that their nations will be acceding and joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization by the end of the year. This comes a few weeks after Estonia announced that they would accede to the Collective Security Treaty Organization and has come forward as something that was inevitable the moment Tallinn announced that they would formally join the Pro-Russian bloc. The Russian government has been silent on the issue unlike in 1996, when the Russian government threatened to end the extradition of Russian troops from the Baltics back into Russia if they were to pursue their membership of NATO.

    The NATO alliance has expressed their willingness to integrate Lithuania and Latvia into their command structure and the government of Russia seems to have taken this as they aren’t in a position to argue with the accession of Estonia into the CSTO. Chancellor Yavlinsky has decidedly been quiet about the issue.

    However what is worrying however is that Lithuanian Russians, and Latvian Russians have started to riot in their countries protesting against the accession of the Lithuanian and Latvian nations into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This will probably lead to nowhere, however the government are in agreement that Lithuania and Latvia must join NATO to ‘protect’ themselves.

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    Latvia and Lithuania acceded to NATO.

    Meanwhile the Estonian government has responded by simply adding tariff boundaries to the trade between Estonia and Latvia and Lithuania which will make resource trading between the three nations harder to conduct, which some say may have been the end goal of the Estonian government in this enterprise at least.

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    www.africatimes.com

    Russia and Somalia announce the liberation of Southern Somalia

    April 29th, 2007

    With the War in Somalia becoming even more dangerous, as the powers of Ethiopia and Russia intervene in the war alongside Great Britain and the Commonwealth the war has turned deadly. What was once a tribal and religious war now sees Russian and British missiles fall upon enemy targets and British and Russian special operatives move with impunity attacking enemies who are untrained and ill-equipped with ease. Nonetheless, the current situation in Somalia so as it stands is that the British have completely evicted the Jihadists from Somaliland and have stayed put. The British government last week also announced that they had reached a deal with the Russian government wherein the Russian government will provide supplies to the British positions in Somaliland from the Russian naval base and military bases in Sudan, whilst the British will provide aid and relief to Russian troops from the British bases in Oman and the British Indian Ocean Territory, alongside the Australians.

    However as the fighting in the north ceases, the fighting in the south has also ceased as the Russian government and the Somalian government have announced that Jubaland and Puntland have been recovered by the Mogadishu regime, with most of the Al-Qaeda networks and the Warlord networks being destroyed by British and Russian asymmetrical warfare in the region.

    The last holdout in the region is the group and militants and jihadists allied with the local warlords in the region is holding out with the remainder of their forces in the town of Afmadow surrounded on all sides with 500 Russian soldiers, 2000 Somalian soldiers, aided by 30 Russian T-90 Tanks. A small ceasefire has been announced for the exchange of the dead bodies, however the siege will continue from tomorrow, with no real hope for the jihadists and militants surviving the siege of Afmadow. With that out of the way, the governmental control of Puntland and Jubaland has been restored for the first time in years, and the people are rejoicing in the streets of Mogadishu.

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    A Somalian soldier patrolling a liberated village in Puntland.     ​

    However the War in Somalia is far from over and is quite likely to continue. The Jihadists and multiple warlords continue to hold a lot of ground and territory in the north and central regions of the Somalian nation. Galkayo remains under the control of the Militants and in the north Bereeda has become home to modern day pirates as they raid civilian ships in the region before being stopped by the Royal Navy and the Imperial Russian Navy.

    The War in Somalia is far from over, however at least they are making progress.

    The British government and the Russian government have also opened talks alongside side the Ethiopian government for trilateral talks in Malta over the future of Somalia once the war ends. Britain is at this point unilaterally backing the future independence of Somaliland after the end of the War in Somalia, however Russia and Ethiopia both are not willing to make any guarantees. Ethiopia has taken the mediating position in this matter and has asked that Somaliland conduct a proper referendum on the issue, and create a ‘two countries, one state’ solution wherein Somaliland goes independence, however both Somalia and Somaliland will continue to have free borders, and will have a shared economy. This by far is the most acceptable solution to the Somalian government should Somaliland go independent, however nothing concrete has been discussed or even thought off as of this moment.

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    www.arabnews.com

    P5 Unite in a mission to Suez as Egyptian Civil War ups the Ante

    May 4th, 2007

    The Egyptian Civil War continues to escalate as the deserts fall under the rule of the Egyptian Army of Liberty against the Hosni Mubarak government, and the government continues to escalate the civil war themselves with the use of tanks and warplanes.

    Nonetheless the Egyptian Civil War has had an extremely negative effect throughout the world due to the interference of rebels in the Suez Canal and emergency Security Council Meetings have been going on for multiple days until yesterday when the Permanent Five nations of the Security Council all agreed, a rarity for sure, for all five nations to intervene in the conflict to secure the Suez Canal. The Resolution which is called the ‘Suez Zone Civil War Act’ has been passed with approval from China, Russia, France, Great Britain and the United States. The resolution stipulates that 3000 Russian troops, 2000 French Troops, 1500 British troops, 1000 American troops, and 400 Chinese troops will land in the Suez canal zone under the United Nations Peacekeeping forces and restore order in the Suez Canal and the Suez Canal Zone.

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    A US Aircraft carrier is followed by a Royal Navy frigate in the Suez Canal following the P5 intervention in Suez.     ​

    The Egyptian government in response has formally drafted a protest in the United Nations against this resolution, even though they have agreed to let the troops in to secure the Suez Canal. The British and French government have also stated that the British and French Navies will take part in coordinating the canal and its traffic in the future until the Egyptian Civil War has ended.

    Some countries like Libya and Sudan have both expressed notions of total intervention in the Egyptian Civil War, however the Russian government, whose influence over both nations is immense, has clearly yanked them both back stating that such an option is out of the question. The Israeli government has also raised noises over the Gaza strip, however the United Nations has clearly stated that Israel will not oversteps its bounds, however as Israel has brought some of its reservists into active service over the civil war, tensions are rising, as Syria and Lebanon both have mobilized their militaries in response to the Israeli mobilization.

    Many foreign experts say that a New Israeli-Arab War is on the horizon, and should diplomats fail with negotiations between Israel, Syria and Lebanon, then war will be inevitable, especially as Hezbollah and Palestine already start to test Israel’s patience. A new Arab-Israeli war could lead to further destabilization of the Middle East, and the governments have all stated that with rumors abound that Israel has nuclear weapons, then a nuclear scare is not out of the scenario, which would be extremely harmful to the global economy.

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    Israel Mobilizes.     ​

    In response to the heightened tensions in the area, the Russian government is pressuring the Israeli government in accordance with Britain and France, surprisingly knowing the new Franco-Russian rivalry, to sign the Treaty of Non-Proliferation, which Israel, with their deliberate ambiguity regarding Nuclear Weapons will not take. The Russian government has also politely threatened to stop all Israeli investments in Russia should Israel not sign the Treaty of Non-Proliferation by the end of June, which has only served to raise tensions.

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    Vignette #1: Dmitry Ivanov

    Dmitry Ivanov was a simple man. He joined the army to get the pension and the insurances for his family. From a small nameless village in Siberia, Dmitry didn’t have much to do except fight, fight and fight. The tough weather conditions of northern Siberia had made him tough, and he could take a lot of things. The war in Darfur and Chad had made him battle hardened. But today he saw something that wanted to make him puke.

    He clenched his assault rifle and squinted his eyes as he saw the condition of the people living in Afmadow through his binoculars. They were as thin as a stick and the militants were kicking them around ordering them to do things as the poor people scurried trying to fulfill the orders.

    Then the whistle came, and the barrage of artillery strikes started. The artillery shells pounded the positions of the Jihadists and the T-90 tanks, sitting atop fixed mounds blasted ammunition round after ammunition round bringing the initial defenses of the town down almost immediately.

    Soon, the commanding officer gave the order to advance, in groups and Dmitry stood up and joined his comrades in assaulting the town. Sneaking in and out of pillars, and killing the jihadists in their way, the Russians made it into the middle of the city alongside the tanks in the roads. By the end of the hour, Dmitry and the rest of the Russian troops had liberated the city ending the war in Jubaland. But Dmitry was on his fours vomiting out the contents of his breakfast as he looked at the image in front of him. The poor inhabitants of the town had tried to resist the militants. Their sinews and muscles were laid down in front of them in ropes like a decorative design as retaliation from the Jihadists.

    Dmitry’s friend and comrade, Makhmud Vasayev, a Chechen was holding him still allowing him to vomit in peace. After a few minutes Dmitry wiped the vomit away and cleaned his face using his water canteen and clothes before he looked at Makhmud and asked “You follow the Islamic faith Makhmud, tell me why do your believers in faith do this?”

    Makhmud shook his head sadly. “This is war Dmitry. Religion has no part in it.”

    “What do you mean?”

    “Religion? The Quran verse 2:190 tells us to be aggressive only when we are defending but to never be aggressive when we are not provoked. Verse 2:256 tells us to never force our religion on others. My friend Dmitry, these militants decorate the town with the sinews of people who defy them, and forcefully convert the unwilling or kill them in the process. These are not Islamists or muslims.” Makhmud said softly. “They haven’t read the Quran, and they do not follow it. Allah, if he is out there, would disapprove massively. These men use the excuse of religion to gain power, become warlords with immense power. They are not muslims or islamists my friend. They are simply opportunists. Do not sully my and my friends who follow our faith with diligence. Islam does not want this, and Allah doesn’t want this.”

    Dmitry nodded as he stood shakily.

    “War……no matter the era it never changes.” Makhmud stated softly. “Antiquity, Medieval, Modern, what is the difference? New weapons, new tactics, all lead to the same thing, human barbarity.”

    Looking at the poor Somali people and their sinews littered all over the town, Dmitry couldn’t help but agree.

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    • EmperorBuaya

    The Afghanistan part reminded me of The Great Game in many ways than one, only different time. Won't be surprised if NATO and CSTO bickered heavily on how things should be done in Afghanistan.

    Makhmud the Chechen soldier in the Russian Army is right, religion is nothing to do with it, it's war, no matter what era or technology, human barbarity is the same.
     
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