Russia and the Baltic States

Werewolf wrote:There was a vote in Lithunian TV3 television that asked lithunians if they believe that Russia is increasing its Propaganda towards lithunia.

The results:
12% said Yes.
 6% said No increase in Russian propaganda.
82% said It is not propaganda. Russia tells the truth.



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The New York Times wrote:Latvian Region Has Distinct Identity, and Allure for Russia
By ANDREW HIGGINSMAY 20, 2015

REZEKNE, Latvia — On a continent of fractured loyalties, a kaleidoscope of separatist passions extending from Scotland to eastern Ukraine, Piters Locs, the 70-year-old champion of an obscure and, at least officially, nonexistent language, has a particularly esoteric cause.

“We are a separate people,” he said, showing visitors around the private museum he built to celebrate the language and literature of Latgale, a sparsely populated and impoverished region of lakes, forests and abandoned Soviet-era factories along Latvia’s eastern border with Russia.

While Mr. Locs insists that he has no desire to see the area break away from already tiny Latvia, such passion for Latgale’s language and its distinct identity helps explain why Russian nationalists see this region — about a quarter of the country — as fertile ground for their machinations to divide and weaken NATO’s easternmost fringe.

Only about 100,000 people actually speak Latgalian. The authorities in Riga, Latvia’s capital, consider it a dialect of Latvian, not a separate language, and nobody is punished for speaking it.

But complaints that the region’s culture, heavily influenced by Russia, is under threat have been taken up with gusto by pro-Russian groups, fueling suspicion that they work as a front for Moscow.

In a recent article urging Russia to undertake a “preventive occupation” of this and two other Baltic nations, all of them NATO members, Rostislav Ishchenko, a political analyst close to influential nationalist figures in Moscow, asserted that Latgale’s separate identity could help open the way for a “revision” of Baltic borders. A map accompanying the article showed Latgale as a separate entity taking up the entire length of what is now Latvia’s border with Russia.

Such a scenario would mean a Baltic replay of events last year in Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists and so-called green men — Russian soldiers in uniforms stripped of insignia — seized Crimea and then territory along Ukraine’s border with Russia. Continue reading.

whir wrote:

The New York Times wrote:Latvian Region Has Distinct Identity, and Allure for Russia
By ANDREW HIGGINSMAY 20, 2015

REZEKNE, Latvia — On a continent of fractured loyalties, a kaleidoscope of separatist passions extending from Scotland to eastern Ukraine, Piters Locs, the 70-year-old champion of an obscure and, at least officially, nonexistent language, has a particularly esoteric cause.

“We are a separate people,” he said, showing visitors around the private museum he built to celebrate the language and literature of Latgale, a sparsely populated and impoverished region of lakes, forests and abandoned Soviet-era factories along Latvia’s eastern border with Russia.

While Mr. Locs insists that he has no desire to see the area break away from already tiny Latvia, such passion for Latgale’s language and its distinct identity helps explain why Russian nationalists see this region — about a quarter of the country — as fertile ground for their machinations to divide and weaken NATO’s easternmost fringe.

Only about 100,000 people actually speak Latgalian. The authorities in Riga, Latvia’s capital, consider it a dialect of Latvian, not a separate language, and nobody is punished for speaking it.

But complaints that the region’s culture, heavily influenced by Russia, is under threat have been taken up with gusto by pro-Russian groups, fueling suspicion that they work as a front for Moscow.

In a recent article urging Russia to undertake a “preventive occupation” of this and two other Baltic nations, all of them NATO members, Rostislav Ishchenko, a political analyst close to influential nationalist figures in Moscow, asserted that Latgale’s separate identity could help open the way for a “revision” of Baltic borders. A map accompanying the article showed Latgale as a separate entity taking up the entire length of what is now Latvia’s border with Russia.

Such a scenario would mean a Baltic replay of events last year in Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists and so-called green men — Russian soldiers in uniforms stripped of insignia — seized Crimea and then territory along Ukraine’s border with Russia. Continue reading.

magnumcromagnon wrote:The New York Times has gotten to new levels of sickening Russophobic propaganda lol!

whir wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:The New York Times has gotten to new levels of sickening Russophobic propaganda lol!

But at the same time raises a few fair points about the feeling of the region's inhabitants that show a subjacent strife as a result from the decay of the region and the mistrust in authorities based on a turbulent past.

About the problem with the powder charges for tank guns D-81

May. 21st, 2015 at 11:29 AM

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About the problem with the powder charges for the tanks wrote long ago, in 2006.
Apparently since no one really on this issue and did not move.
You can say almost in the literal sense that one of the indicators of the combat power of the tank just simply started to razlagalsa, because since the collapse of the Union new tank shots in the APU is practically not supplied.

Biryukov, I. Yu.
POWDER CHARGES LONG PERIODS OF STORAGE:
PROBLEMS, CHALLENGES AND THEIR SOLUTIONS


(the results of these studies showed that the density of the powder is decreased, the powder changed color to dark brown, which is a sign of decomposition.)

The principal tank of the army of Ukraine is a modernized T-64, armed with a 125 mm tank gun D-81 installed ammunition. For shooting apply shots of separate loading ammunition with different projectiles: armor-piercing, cumulative and high-explosive.
For throwing these projectiles combat uniform powder charges G in sleeves with burning buildings and steel pallets, as well as additional charges on its armor-piercing shells.
However, the current state of Arsenal shots for tank gun D-81 in Ukraine characterized by long, considerably exceeding 10 years, their life cycles and lack of production of artillery ammunition, shots of separate loading ammunition for D-81, and this led to the fact that currently are in operation ammunition, the lifetime of which reaches 25-30 years or more.

... As is well known [1,2,3], pyroxyline powder, including high used separate loading ammunition charges 4Z-40 for gun D-81, over time, change their properties, resulting in less energy characteristics, increasing the burning rate, up to the acquisition of high explosive properties, this considerably reduces the survivability of the receiver of the complex and there is a risk, both for the material and for the crew. In turn, this leads to a higher maximum pressure in the barrel, change the initial velocity of the projectile, and these factors affect the ballistic characteristics of the gun, which leads to increased consumption of ammunition when resolving fire tasks...

... Increasing the maximum pressure determined by the increase of the burning rate gunpowder Ui that due to the following. During storage due to mass transfer and mechanical components to the formation of microcracks in the surface of the powder elements of the developing. Since the rate of combustion and gas formation is directly proportional to the surface area of the powder, its increase leads to an increase in the burning rate. And this leads to an increase of the maximum pressure...

The authorities in Riga, Latvia’s capital, consider it a dialect of Latvian, not a separate language, and nobody is punished for speaking it.

Bolt wrote:

The authorities in Riga, Latvia’s capital, consider it a dialect of Latvian, not a separate language, and nobody is punished for speaking it.

Well, this is a nice civil rights achievement for Latvia - not punishing anyone for speaking some language.
Because in other countries they absolutely punish you if you speak other language.. not.

GarryB wrote:It raises fair points of oppression of a minority in Latvia being oppressed by a Russophobic government, and twists it into aggressive intent from Moscow... in other words... it is bullshit.

zg18 wrote:I have to say , this hurts:

http://top.rbc.ru/society/25/07/2015/55b3edfa9a7947031ee9ac26

Putin invites Lithuanians to Russia after more than 30% of it`s citizens left country for better life , considering this , it`s no surprising why Vilnius maintains militant anti-Russian line. It`s simply has nothing to offer to it`s people except constantly revolving myths about Russian threat while country is literally dying.

Ivan the Colorado wrote:

Werewolf wrote:There was a vote in Lithunian TV3 television that asked lithunians if they believe that Russia is increasing its Propaganda towards lithunia.

The results:
12% said Yes.
 6% said No increase in Russian propaganda.
82% said It is not propaganda. Russia tells the truth.



Video link

The people could be beginning to realize that their government prostituted them to the West from the very start. Bet it feels great knowing that you are under a government that makes your land and everything you worked for into nothing more than just a buffer zone for a country a few thousand miles away in case sh!t really hits the fan one day.

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This is why I want Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton to be the next US president instead of Donald Trump. Bush wants to give an amnesty to all of illegal immigrants in the US while Trump wants to deport them and build a wall in Mexican border.

The only way to weaken the US is an endless flow of third-world immigrants. It must continue and the presidency of Trump would ruin it all.

Werewolf wrote:Putin wants Lebensraum, because Russia is tiny and there is not enough place for the 140 mln Russians....

max steel wrote: Baltic natives are leaving their countries and moving towards Western Europe , canada and usa. Why would Russia invade them ?

max steel wrote: Baltic natives are leaving their countries and moving towards Western Europe , canada and usa. Why would Russia invade them ?

kvs wrote:

max steel wrote: Baltic natives are leaving their countries and moving towards Western Europe , canada and usa. Why would Russia invade them ?

All of these "new Europe" clown states have a grotesquely exaggerated view of their own value.   There is zero value from invading
any of them.  In fact there is a massive negative value.   Not because NATO won't like it, but because Russia will have to feed these
welfare leeches (see the figure I posted in the Russia section).    

These clown states never admit to any of their historical wrong doing.   Take Poland as an example.  It always ignores the reason why
it got incorporated into the Russian Empire.   It was by no means sitting there minding its own business.   It was a bastion of the
western onslaught on Russia for centuries .  
Same goes for the precious Baltic chihuahuas who were the original base of the Teutonic Knights and their invasion of the Novgorod
Republic

andrewlya wrote:

kvs wrote:

max steel wrote: Baltic natives are leaving their countries and moving towards Western Europe , canada and usa. Why would Russia invade them ?

All of these "new Europe" clown states have a grotesquely exaggerated view of their own value.   There is zero value from invading
any of them.  In fact there is a massive negative value.   Not because NATO won't like it, but because Russia will have to feed these
welfare leeches (see the figure I posted in the Russia section).    

These clown states never admit to any of their historical wrong doing.   Take Poland as an example.  It always ignores the reason why
it got incorporated into the Russian Empire.   It was by no means sitting there minding its own business.   It was a bastion of the
western onslaught on Russia for centuries .  
Same goes for the precious Baltic chihuahuas who were the original base of the Teutonic Knights and their invasion of the Novgorod
Republic

Well, the bottom line is that they, the Baltics and Poland, need to calm down a bit and follow their neighbours i.e. Czech Republic and Slovakia who want to have warm relationships with Russia not being eager to star a war against Russia. At the end of the day we have one common enemy and that is a rising militant Islam that poses threat to all of us.

Werewolf wrote:There was a vote in Lithunian TV3 television that asked lithunians if they believe that Russia is increasing its Propaganda towards lithunia.

The results:
12% said Yes.
 6% said No increase in Russian propaganda.
82% said It is not propaganda. Russia tells the truth.

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GarryB wrote:I find it amusing that the west has been interfering in the middle east.... drawing borders based on known oil reserves and ignoring political or cultural boundaries... the British and French CREATED Royal families in the region in the period after WWI when they carved up the region between themselves when the German colonies were devoured... I should know... New Zealand and the US took over Samoa... I remember having a Samoan Maths teacher at school... he had a good Samoan name... Mr Schwalger... pardon the spelling. He was from the german side of Samoa...

Now the west has bombed Libya and Syria and Egypt and they wonder why so many refugees want out of the area and to live in lovely friendly safe Europe... well duh.

On topic... Russia has gotten rid of a lot of dead weight... why would it go backwards and try to repatriate parts of the Soviet Union?

Russia needs to invade its neighbours like it needs AIDS or Ebola.

It would be much better off with friendly neighbours but it wont get that through invasion... a nuclear attack on Washington that kills all those dumb mfuckers who live and work there would certainly kill the head of the beast that stokes the fires of hate for Russia, but even then the fires will burn long.

For Russia good relations with its neighbours has been worth lots of self sacrifice... recent talk of reducing Russian trade through foreign ports in the Baltic is an example... they didn't need to push that trade through foreign ports... their own ports would welcome the work... the work went through now hostile ports as a gesture of friendship... Russia didn't need to rely on Motor Sich to make its main helicopter engines and gas turbines for its ships... and why would it do so with a hostile neighbour? Generosity?

Current sanctions shows Russia who is friend and who is not... and they are REacting in response to aggression.

The result will not be russia invading anyone... the result will be Russia looking elsewhere for allies and trade partners... ones that wont stab her in the back at the first opportunity... without such close ties to Europe Europe will never have the influence it has had before this situation started again... which means I doubt Russia will ever be as close to Europe again either... there wont be a wall, but I doubt they will bother being very friendly again... this is not their choice... the west has forced this on them.

I personally can't wait till those liberal EU members find counties and regions voting to adopt sharia law... they deserve it.