Above: Moscow police try to hold the riot Riot police arrested protesters on Monday who held an unauthorized rally against the election of Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow. Medvedev is a known protégé of President Vladimir Putin. 300 riot police wielding batons hauled protesters to their buses (see picture above) – as other protesters light flares while shouting: "Fascists! Fascists!" (see below). Protesters were clearly outnumbered in the clash as it only took a while before the police drove away with two busloads of detainees. Below: ... Read More

Above: Vladimir Putin will not back down After reports of missile testing, Russian President Vladimir Putin makes another move to empower Russia against possible war threats. In his statements for the presidential state council in Moscow, he had his say about the “one-way” Western military demands and promised that they will respond to U.S. and NATO military expansion. Russia already closed its bases in Cuba and Vietnam and yet they see no action from the West towards the same cause. “We have been put in ... Read More

Above: Russia Missile Test It was only a matter of time before we started seeing a response to the American expansionism into the middle east. Now we are going to see the Cold war begin again except now Russia and China and various others have much better bonds and communication formed by the fact that America has close to the population of a small country in troops, manouvering around the middle east. We have seen Iran developing Nuclear "POWER", China already has some ... Read More

Above: Map of Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904/05 a victorious Japan forced Russia to give up its policy of expansion towards the Far East. Thus Japan became the first Asian country to humble a European country. Above: Japanese combat canon deployed at Port Arthur The seeds of the war originated from competition between the two countries to dominate Korea and Manchuria. In 1898 China had been forced to grant to Russia a lease for the strategically important ... Read More

Above: Map showing the location of Chechnya The Chechen war has been fought for a long time. It started even before the Russian Union broke in December 1991; this led to division of the union into many smaller countries. The Chechen Republic was at war ever since September 1991 in order to gain status as an independent state. Chechnya was finally recognized as an independent state in the year 1995. There were two wars the first one from 1991 to 1993, the ... Read More

Above: Map of Estonia and her neighboring countries (click map to enlarge) Estonia fought for her independence from Soviet Russia. The war dragged on from November 1928 to January 1929. After the fall of Germany in November 1918, concluding World War I, the temporary government of Estonia started to operate again. It got the support of the Kaitseliit. The latter was a military alliance, which had come into existence during the time of German occupation. Above: Estonian Infantry Unit ... Read More

{mosimage}World War I also called the, “Great War”, began July 28th 1914. It began with a joint treaty between Austria and Hungary which declared war on Serbia. World War I became a global war which involved many nations. It began in Europe and swiftly spread all over the world. Many countries joined the war during its first months and others joined in subsequent months or years later. On July 19th 1918 Honduras and Germany joined in ... Read More