Buran was intended to be a carbon copy of Shuttle, but Soviets weren't able to put engines there because of weight constraints and they had no solid boosters either do they had to improvise.
LOL, Russophobia doesn't even need proofs. You can open any western media (BBC, CNN, DW, whatever), type Russia in the search box, and get tons of results that regurgitate the same thoughts over and over: "Russia is guilty for everything bad that is happening now", "Russia is guilty for everything bad that happened in the past", "Russia is guilty for everything bad that will happen in the future", "Russians are dangerous villains", "Russians are savages".
If you open social network, like reddit.com/r/worldnews, it would be even more obvious. If you open comments under any news about Russia there, you'll find even direct appeals to kill Russians (BTW, always ignored by Reddit, Facebook and Twitter moderators, but try to write the same about any other nationality and you'll be immediately banned).
My comment was about a small part of russophobes - Russians that emigrated abroad. Most of the time they become the most zealous russophobes.
I don't really know the explanation, nor do I really care. I've just made a rule to avoid Russians abroad as most of them hate themselves to the point of schizophrenia.
Yep. You can have dirt-cheap housing (which won't be yours btw) and cheap transportation, but you will have to overpay for rest of the goods. And wait in extraordinary long queues.
You can experience some of the that life yourself - in North Korea or Ukrainian regions occupied by Russia for example.
I'm from Vietnam and not old enough to have lived though the communist days but my first family house was the one my dad had gotten from his job. It was ours, he sold it after 10 years, maybe communism in Vietnam was not as strict as others.
I have definitely heard stories about food stamps and queuing for foods.
> Regardless whether Russia did any of the outlandish things that the UK accuses it of, what business does the UK have picking a fight with Russia or anybody else?
Wasn't one of those "outlandish things" trying to assassinate a naturalized UK citizen in UK territory and causing one collateral death and several other collateral non-fatal poisonings of other British citizens? And wasn't the poison used so obviously Russian that it turned up in another attempted assassination of a Russian dissident that occurred in Russian territory? And the dudes that were identified as responsible from security footage turned out to be the same dudes involved in blowing up a Czech ammunition depot that contained arms manufactured by a Bulgarian that the Russian government has a beef with?
That's not the UK "picking a fight," and seems enough reason to convince any reasonable person that UK involvement is justified.
> it is deeply concerning that a trade orginisation like IEEE would wade into political affairs and write a puff piece on Bellingcat who is obviously a creature of the UK intelligence establishment.
yes, this is the critical point. me and "thrwway34" can argue about the trustworthiness of bellingcat, but IEEE has clearly picked a side.
And besides, all big cities in Manchuria and Korea were captured only after Japanese surrender.