"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (3 Viewers)

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The ship (and it's sister) are being built by Turkey in Istanbul and were contracted by Ukraine in 2020 - they are legally allowed as they are, and have been, in the Black Sea since being laid down.
 

Some researchers claim that the computing gap between the west and Soviet Union, was one of the reasons for its collapse. The PC revolution that catapulted the United States to the forefront of the information revolution in the 1980s would bypass the Soviet Union completely. Despite its lead in heavy industries, the Soviet Union was 20 years behind the U.S. in the domain of computing by the late 1980s: in 1986, the U.S. had about 1.3 million mainframes and minicomputers, and the Soviets had only 10,000
Lets hope history repeats.
 
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Well, history may not repeat fully - it was Bulgaria and their computer tech that propped up the Soviet Union.

I'm sure that currently, they have help from China and India.
 
For a very long time, the Russian Orthodox Church has served the Russian state. The decades of Soviet rule were a break in that tradition.
 
What do the CCP think of one of his boys been resurrected and convert to christianity?
 
I second fubar57 . Get them the damn planes and ammo already!
Yeah but...

 

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