#RUSSIA

[livesunique]

Jordanian Staircase, Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia,

Source: piter places

[1five1two]

'The Delta of the Volga River, Russia'. Fedor Lashkov.

[thelittleukrainianwell-armedgirl]

(c) A. (???)

An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has hit "more than 40" Russian bombers at air bases "in the rear of the Russian Federation," a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on June 1.

[573p5]

[saywhat-politics]

Trump was not informed about Ukraine attack which destroyed huge fleet of Russian planes, reports claims

White House was not given advance notice about Ukraine’s ‘large-scale’ drone attack, which wiped out a fleet of about 40 Russian military bombers

[songs-of-the-east]

Kazan Tatars from the Volga-Ural region of Russia

[lost-in-russia]

"Yeah, but I don't think he's gonna transition"

[janusfranc15]

Whoa.

Russian car mod

[angelosand]

Ukraine 🇺🇦 successfully attacked four Russian air bases. There Belaya, Dyagilevo, Olenya and Ivanovo . These bases hosted several dozen military aircraft such as tu-95ms bombers. This is one of the worst military defeats suffered by Russia.

[zvyozdochka]

Polar bear on board a Soviet icebreaker, 1970.

[lurks-no-more]

A lot of Americans, and even people from Western Europe, easily miss that Russia is as much of a colonial empire as the US or the various European empires, and that it still holds most of the land it conquered. Basically, all of Siberia, and much of European Russia, is essentially colonies feeding and enriching the small imperial metropole, consisting of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and their immediate surroundings.

There's things you really can't explain to people who have not grown up familiar with the concept. Like the way Russia only keeps track of its borders by where the corpses pile up. As far as they're concerned, Russia expands as far as they can go, and every once in a while they'll test that. Shooting one or two won't fix it, unfortunately, you gotta keep doing that until the pile of russian corpses is big enough to make the next batch go "oh, so this is where Russia ends", give up and go back home.

It sucks for everyone involved but unfortunately you have to do that or they'll just walk right into your home, tell you that you live in Russia now, and as a matter of fact this land area has always belonged to Russia. Your kids can no longer go to school and get an education in their first language.

[vestaignis]

Есусарет. В северном сиянии. Фотограф Рябенький Александр. Россия (Санкт-Петербург).

Jesusaret. In the Northern Lights. Photographer Ryabenkiy Alexander. Russia (Saint Petersburg).

Источник:/35photo.pro/photo_10704516/#author/10704516, /35photo.pro/egra.

[mysharona1987]

You just know the NYT has a “style guide” for this sort of thing.

Maybe someone there should get fed up and leak it.

[rhube]

Yeah, you wouldn't want to loop the White House in on that.

BBC piece on the overall operation.

Article on the brilliant and beautiful Vladivostok attack.

I thought about adding something like the Ukrainian national anthem...and then I realized the perfect song for this symphony of strikes already existed...

[milenamillrussia]

Санкт-Петербург

У Санкт-Петербурга много «вторых» названий: культурная столица России, город мостов, северная Венеция. Петербург называют северной Венецией, потому что здесь тоже много воды: залив, бухты, реки, каналы. Санкт-Петербург называют городом мостов. Их здесь больше восьмисот, в два раза больше, чем в Венеции! Петр I для строительства города выбрал дельту Невы. Шестьдесят восемь рек, каналов и протоков пересекают город в разных направлениях, образуя на его обширной территории сорок два острова.