by Robert Beckhusen | Sep 6, 2012 | Monitor
Robot subs, sea-based missile interceptors and new intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Kremlin is promising a major upgrade to its arsenal. And if even some of those promises are met, it could cause a serious shift in the global balance of power. Russian...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 6, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Putin the Magnificent and his gaggle of geese ] . — upper image from the motion picture soundtrack album In the film version, according to Wikipedia, there’s “an emergency landing at a U.S. Air Force base on Lake...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 21, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the Garry Kasparov arrest ] . It isn’t chess. It isn’t, as we’d say in England, cricket. It besmirches the good name athletes like Arsen Galstyan brought Russia in the London Olympics. It is Garry Kasparov, arrested for...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 19, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — mystery beyond the senses, holy of holies behind the veil, altar beyond the iconostasis, and other considerations bearing on Orthodoxy, Pussy Riot, holy folly and monastic punk ] . Life is full of surprises. glorious photo credit: choir...
by David Axe | Aug 6, 2012 | Monitor
The Russian military will acquire long-range, presumably jet-powered strike drones to help replace its arsenal of decrepit Cold War-era Tupolev heavy bombers, according to Moscow’s long-range aviation commander, Lt. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev. Just one problem: The...
