@CassianoDFarias That was discussed already at the beginning of the pandemic, see for example this extract from a paper in Nature, and the difficulties were described in some detail by K. Chumakov isn several interviews in a Russian. And for each adenovirus based vaccine there have since been
@CassianoDFarias reports of production difficulties. Russia has hardly produced any second doses for its Sputnik 5 vaccine (it uses a different adenovirus from the one used for the first dose and it seems that can’t grow it in large quantities so they have been touting “Sputnik Light” - which
@CassianoDFarias just the first dose of Sputnik V. AstraZeneca’s problems are well known, see for example
Today on Mark Solonin’s YouTube Chanel there is another fascinating video in his “technicum” (a word use for technological higher schools in Russia & much of Eastern Europe), that is, how he calls his presentations devoted to technical (usually related to aviation) aspects of
recent history (this includes a series of talks on the development of atom bombs). Mark Solonin is the leading “revisionist” (i.e. one who rejects the official Soviet version) of WWII on the Eastern Front (aka “The Great Patriotic War”) as well as an aviation engineer, who used
to work on secret Soviet projects in Samara (in Soviet days “Kuybyshev”). Now Solonin has finally turned to a subject that I was long hoping he would take up: the Smolensk air disaster of 2010. I have listened only to about a half of the talk & will report on the whole later.
The final part of Illarionov's article is entitled "What Biden's phone call revealed about his attitude to Ukraine". I decided it would be better to make it into a separate thread, as it is essentially self-contained.
Not Biden's call (and the follow-up) clearly clearly showed what he was going to do and what he was not going to do. A lot of additional information has emerged showing how Biden actually relates to Ukraine.
First, the Washington-based "Politico" , which seems to have monopolized the channels of intentional leaks from the White House, has reminded us not for the first time that Biden had been keeping Ukraine at arm's length. ...
So here is Latynina's view on things. And, I have to say, I find it the most convincing of all.
Yes, these are demonstrative actions, it is important to emphasize, because all this happens in the daytime, without any disguise. But we must understand that if the demonstration does not have an effect, then it can get out of control.
And, of course, we also must not forget Russian propagandists who tell us about an innocent baby which was killed by “Ukrainian fascists” for ritual purposes, by using a drone.
The first Western book on WWII on the Eastern Front worthy of the name, that is, one that doesn’t (at least in a large degree) parrot Soviet and post-Soviet propaganda (especially the lies contained in the so called “memoirs” of Soviet marshals (the very worst liar being Zhukov)
and does rely on new documents uncovered in Soviet archives during the “period of chaos” (that is, until Putin closed them again), especially by Mark Solonin. Still, it’s already a little dated, does not refer to the lates evidence and curiously believes that Solonin is a
pseudonym (Solonin lives outside Russia, in Estonia I believe, and uses his own name. He now has his own YouTube Chanel, where he has been explaining the history of the construction of the American & Soviet atom bombs (yes, the first Soviet version was entirely based on stolen
Andrei Illarionov "Why Biden's phone call has increased the risk of another Putin offensive". My translation (with some cuts). Part I.
Perhaps dear readers you may not have noticed it yet, but astute political analysts (henceforth known as APA), who had previously announced the beginning of a “new cold war” by the “second Churchill”, have now have announced
the end of the more than seven year Russian-Ukrainian war, and as a result : " On April 2, 2021, the Russian-Ukrainian war ended in an unconditional political defeat for the Russian Federation."
Russia has now demanded that Slovakia returns the Sputnik V vaccine it has supplied to it. You may ask:"why?"
It's because the Slovaks noticed (as I told you here earlier
Lancet. It's not a joke. Russia really sent to Slovakia "nobody knowswhat" (here is the scene from Heart of a Dog, mentioned by Latynina a long a time ago in connection with the production of Russian vaccine, in which professor Preobrazhensky advises Dr Bormenthal not to drink
Soviet vodka because "God knows what they put into it. What came to their heads..."