Recent content by Viacheslav

How does Russia provide intelligence? Russia doesn't have a serious orbital grouping of reconnaissance satellites, Russian aircraft don't fly near Iran, judging by where Iran is striking, these are static targets and a simple Google map is enough. Russia may well supply Iran with drones...

I don't understand what you're trying to refute. The USSR started a war with Finland and organized a puppet government. Why Stalin ultimately refused to include Finland into the USSR, I don't know—you can't ask the dead. Perhaps because the Finns put up fierce resistance, and the USSR suffered...

Yes, the USSR had plans to annex Finland, since before the revolution this country was part of the Russian Empire. A puppet government of Finland was created, headed by Kuusinen, which was supposed to lead Finland and begin the process of "voluntary" accession of the Finns to the USSR.

I don't know anything about the Finnish language, I've never been interested in it, but Russia (if we're talking about the Russian Empire) never granted Finland independence. Finland gained it due to the collapse of the Russian Empire, and the USSR tried to seize Finland back in 1939 (the Winter...

A nuclear explosion in space (airless space) is deprived of its most powerful destructive force, the shock wave, which occurs during an explosion in the dense layers of the atmosphere. Essentially, all the energy of the explosion is spent on radiation and the intensity of electromagnetic...

It's not Russia that's threatening, it's the crazy Russian propagandist (as is usual for such "patriots", who has Israeli citizenship) Solovyov. Russia would have used up its entire nuclear missile arsenal, but still would not have been able to completely destroy Musk's satellites.

You may be right, I often interview candidates for junior to senior level software development positions (mostly from Europe), and I can't help but notice that the average level of junior developers (recent graduates) is lower now than it was 10-15 years ago. A friend of mine teaches math at...

And now we see that Finland and Sweden have joined NATO, NATO (Europe) has launched programs to finance the military-industrial complex, Russia has suffered serious losses in its fleet and strategic aviation and long-range airborne early warning aircraft (and these will not be replaced in the...

I lived in Russia for more than 30 years. In my opinion, this doesn't work with Putin. He (for the most part) has started this war, or at least he said it was his decision (he often tries to diffuse responsibility, as he did with the mobilization, when he said the generals made the decision...

All over the world, schools use new technologies in one way or another. Online lectures, interactive tools and so on, but I still don't see the possibility of replacing teachers with these new technologies (especially with AI), or, of course, it is physically possible, but in this case the...

Who knows, maybe in the future this is a very real way for the Russian elite to break out of this "unpleasant situation", because under current conditions, Russia cannot win this war; it needs a second mobilization, but the first showed that people aren't eager to participate in this adventure.

It's not a matter of stupidity, Russia has already committed a stupidity by starting this war. And, as usual, no one likes failed politicians who lost the war. For Putin (in my opinion), this war is a matter of his own life, he needs something that could be presented as a victory within Russia...

Russia will use this as justification for annexing Crimea.

You are quite far from Russian reality. Putin believed that he would defeat Ukraine in “a couple of days,” which, in his view, would be equivalent to seizing Crimea with the same consequences. Putin doesn't want a WW3 or even the restoration of the Russian Empire. He wants to stay in power for...

Is it possible that illegal immigrants vote in the US? And even if it is possible, it is still not clear to me how it works, because in the US they don't vote by an absolute majority across the country, but separately by states.