#news: #drones from #Russia use #NVIDIA Jetson Orin processors for #AI #machine-vision
on 02026-06-11#Russia has taken over #Wagner mercenary operations in #Africa, including #Mali, #Libya, #Burkina-Faso, #Central-African-Republic, and #Madagascar, with smaller forces in #Sudan, #Niger, and #Equatorial-Guinea, with the so-called “Africa Corps” (“Африканский корпус”) #politics
on 02026-04-26the impotent #UN Security Council condemned #Iran’s attacks on #Bahrain and other countries on March 11, #Russia and #China abstaining rather than vetoing
on 02026-04-13#Russia in the #Iran war: just spying and UN Security Council resolutions
on 02026-04-13They literally called it the “maniac murder cult”, or maybe “Maniac: cult of murder”: “Маньяки: культ убийства”. #humor #Russia #politics #order-of-nine-angles
on 02025-12-11#video of interviews on the #Russia street about the #Ukraine war
on 02025-08-09Roman Starovoit was found dead of a gunshot wound in his car a few hours after being dismissed by Putin as Minister of Transport, supposedly by suicide. #politics #Russia
on 02025-07-09#video from May 19: #interview with #drones developer Sergey Tovkach from #Russia on how #weaponry from #Ukraine is far better than what the US and even China have, and now 70% of fatalities on the battlefield are from drones. “A special thanks to our Western partners, because where else could we have trained on so much of your equipment? You delivered it straight to the front, and we got to study it up close. We learned all the weak points. We learned exactly where to strike. (...) There isn’t a single Western drone that’s proven itself effective in this conflict.” He claims #China makes military gear that doesn’t survive being tossed out of a truck, “like toys”. Ukraine barely uses Chinese chips in their drones, but Russia’s have to be all Chinese. Talks about mine-laying drones (“in use for about a year and a half now”), “sleeper/ambush drones” (same time frame, Ukrainians first — drones playing possum, pretending to be “a real trophy”), and drones dropping caltrops welded from rebar. “Same [ambush tactics] with drones placed on rooftops or hilltops overlooking roads (...) when the vehicles come, the drone just takes off, flies a short distance, and hits its target. That whole tactic really took off with the rise of fiber optic drones,” because they don’t need to burn 5–10W to transmit the video feed. Russian operators now wind up used fiber-optic cables on a cordless drill to avoid giving away their position. “The Orbit [Russian remote piloting] system. (...) The Ukrainians have been using radio relays and internet bridges for a long time already. (...) #Starlink is the holy grail. (...) Take away Starlink and Ukraine’s entire fleet of naval drones disappears overnight. (...) Why doesn’t Russia have naval drones? Well, we do have the boats and, but we don’t have Starlink.” But he says Starlink’s #latency is too high for FPV drone piloting. Baba Yaga or “Vampire” drones dropping antitank mines with 6–8kg of TNT have been very effective; Russia is ramping up two factories to produce its own equivalent.
on 02025-06-17#SCMP #news #video on #Xi (#China premier) visiting #Russia to meet with Vladimir #Putin today, for the third time this year. #politics
on 02025-05-08#Karaganov “has been Presidential Advisor to both Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. He is considered close to Putin and Sergey Lavrov. (...) has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 1998, and served on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe at the USSR (now Russian) Academy of Sciences since 1983.” I guess that means he’s been a major architect of Russian foreign policy since literally Andropov. #politics #Russia #Ukraine
on 02024-11-22best summary of the #Russia submarine visit to #Cuba, near #USA
on 02024-06-15#USA spies also think #Russia's nuclear submarine Kazan visiting Havana isn’t carrying nuclear weapons #politics #Cuba
on 02024-06-15#Russia’s nuclear submarine Kazan visiting Havana isn’t carrying nuclear weapons #politics #USA #Cuba
on 02024-06-15#RAND's summary of the #Extending-Russia report and the controversy over it. #Russia #USA #politics
on 02023-03-09The controversial #RAND research report "Extending Russia" from 02019 to the #USA Army, in which proposes ways to weaken #Russia in international #politics.
on 02023-03-09the Russian rouble is slightly up against the US dollar over the last two years despite enormous volatility last year around the invasion of #Ukraine. #forex #politics #Russia
on 02023-02-08a reputedly not very good van in #Russia, sort of imitating the Vanagon
on 02022-11-06surge in demand for iodine tablets in #Finland on Tuesday due to increased risk of #nuclear-war due to #Russia invading #Ukraine
on 02022-10-12Ted Galen Carpenter of Cato blames the invasion of #Ukraine by #Russia on #NATO expansion, pointing out that he warned of this in his book in 01994, and other people warned of it including Madeleine Albright, Strobe Talbott, George Kennan (01998), and Robert M. Gates. #history
on 02022-05-21#Finland’s leaders announce they want to join #NATO due to #Russia invading #Ukraine
on 02022-05-21#Russia raids #REvil #ransomware gang at 25 residences
on 02022-02-09notes on #Russia and #USA #politics and #war doctrines, and “A2/AD”.
on 02021-06-04#Russia, in the #Ukraine #war, uses soldiers’ cellphones to target them individually — and their families.
on 02018-08-16#Putin in #Russia favors #Bitcoin and especially #Ethereum, perhaps thanks to the #USA Magnitsky Act imposing sanctions on Russian citizens. #politics
on 02017-08-06#Russia #politics allows carrying #guns in public for self-defense again, as of 2014-11
on 02017-08-06#Russia bans proxies, VPNs, Tor, and chats that don’t use phone numbers. #censorship #human-rights #politics
on 02017-07-302000 #Ukraine casualties in #Russia’s forces released by “Cargo-200”
on 02016-11-21#USA sent a bunch of troops to Northern Europe in late 2016 to defend against #Russia. #WWIII #politics
on 02016-11-21#Russia’s slightly illiterate announcement about their efforts to observe #USA elections
on 02016-10-23A 2013 #interview with former #Wikileaks employee James Ball, who quit because of Julian’s friendship with anti-Semite Israel Shamir, who’s close to the security services of #Russia and who gave the embassy cables to Alexander Lukashenko.
on 02016-10-23Mitchell Orenstein explains the #USA elite consensus on #Russia and #Wikileaks.
on 02016-10-23The Economist sounds the clarion for #war between “the West”, meaning NATO I suppose, and #Russia. “Above all the West needs to keep its [sic] head.”
on 02016-10-23#Russia is sending its aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean. #politics #war
on 02016-10-19#Russia wants to send election monitors to make sure #USA elections are fair; the proposal is harshly rejected. #politics
on 02016-10-19#Russia broadcaster Russia Today (RT) has all its #banking accounts in the #UK closed, effective December 12. #politics
on 02016-10-17#Putin did request officials of #Russia to stop sending their kids to schools abroad, claiming that it brings his regime’s schools into disrepute
on 02016-10-14#USA Department of Homeland Security announced that #Russia broke computer #security to feed #politics emails to #WikiLeaks
on 02016-10-11#Iran (and #Russia) offer military support to #Turkey against #USA, substantially increasing risk of #WWIII spreading [in Turkish]
on 02016-08-08The accusations that #Russia is supporting #Trump by cracking Democrats’ email. #politics
on 02016-08-01politicians call #Trump’s call for #Russia to crack Clinton’s email “treason” #politics
on 02016-08-01the Democratic National Committee email leak that forced Deborah Wasserman Schultz to resign as the DNC chairwoman was probably email stolen by crackers from #Russia, not leaked by insiders, or stolen by a Bulgarian, as “Guccifer 2.0” claims he is. #theft #security
on 02016-07-24Three months after detection, crackers (presumably from #Russia) retain their access to the US State Department’s unclassified email systems. #security #politics
on 02016-07-24“Facial recognition service [FindFace] becomes a weapon against Russian #porn actresses” #face-recognition #privacy #security #Russia
on 02016-04-27supposedly the new #oil #taxes in #Russia represent the beginning of the end of Russia as a great power. Forgive me if I’m not that convinced. #politics
on 02016-04-20UN Security Council resolution 2254 on #Syria, less than a month after #Russia declared a no-fly zone for US planes there. #politics
on 02015-12-30#politics #Russia announces a no-fly zone in #Syria for US and Turkish planes, enforced with SAMs.
on 02015-11-29“Today #Russia firewalled off a lot of US service companies ( Twitter, etc ) and I am no longer able to VPN into a machine I generally can reach in Moscow. I get disconnected within 30 seconds. Something is Going On(TM) / Please link to more information here; was not able to substantiate claims that Russia has blocked Twitter.” #WWIII
on 02015-11-25