Railfans will love this movie. Where else can you see steam locomotives race on side-by-side tracks, ending in a PIT maneuver at a switch junction? The bridge scene strains plausibility, but the plot is interesting, the acting is terrific, and the photography is spectacular. Set in a Siberia labor c[...]
Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category
November 16th, 2024 - 2:15 am § in Russia
Full-length movie: The Edge (2010). In Russian with English subtitles. Train chases! Raging rivers! Collapsing bridges!
October 27th, 2024 - 1:15 pm § in Russia
What it’s like to live in Russia (video)
A Russian ex-businessman describes what it’s like to live in a country where the political leader imprisons opponents and critics, and people are afraid to speak their minds. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Who’s lying, Putin or Trump?
Trump denies journalist Bob Woodward’s account that he sent Covid-19 tests to Putin early in the pandemic. But the Kremlin says he did. Because those statements contradict each other, they can’t both be true. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Trump declares Ukraine “can’t be rebuilt”
“Those cities are gone, they’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelensky,” Trump declared on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 (read story here), as he campaigns against the U.S. helping Ukraine defend itself. He assumes Putin is willing t[...]
September 18th, 2024 - 9:32 pm § in Russia
Watch Russian ammo dump blow up (video)
The fireball and mushroom cloud resemble a nuclear explosion, but it’s actually a Russian missile and artillery arsenal exploding, after a Ukrainian drone attack. The incident occurred at the Russian town of Toropets on September 18, 2024. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Pentagon “concerned” by Chinese-Russian cooperation
China and Russia just wrapped up a week of joint military exercises with hundreds of ships and planes. This was “the latest in a recent slew of military exercises and joint patrols between Russia and China that come on the heels of vows from Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to tighten milit[...]
Kamala Harris didn’t hit-and-run
It’s a bombshell story: “Kamala Harris was involved in a ‘hit and run’ accident in 2011 where she hit a 13-year old” named “Alicia” or “Alisha” Brown and left her paralyzed in a wheelchair. It was posted on a website called “KBSF-San Francisco News[...]
August 19th, 2024 - 7:00 pm § in Russia
Tesla accessory (video)
No word yet on whether this is a custom job, or will be available as an option, but it’s perfectly suited for Russian road rage. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 14th, 2024 - 2:02 am § in Russia
Russia sends goats to North Korea
That’s a big deal, because over 40% of North Koreans are malnourished, “and 18 percent of children have impaired growth and development due to chronic malnutrition,” Politico says here. The North Korean regime has been helping Putin with his faltering war in Ukraine by supplying we[...]
Was American still held by Russia “stabbed in the back”?
It was a deal that took more than a year, and intense diplomatic effort, to put together. Russia exchanged 16 foreigners, mostly ordinary people, for 8 Russians who were spies, an assassin, and cybercriminals. It was a lopsided trade in Moscow’s favor, but the only way to bring the 16 detainees ho[...]