Musings from the Mount » sorta communist http://www.seanlarsen.com Inner thoughts of a part time guru Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:59:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 The Russian quest for relevancy in the 21st Century http://www.seanlarsen.com/index.php/2008/08/the-russian-quest-for-relevancy-in-the-21st-century/ http://www.seanlarsen.com/index.php/2008/08/the-russian-quest-for-relevancy-in-the-21st-century/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:09:59 +0000 guru http://www.seanlarsen.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/the-russian-quest-for-relevancy-in-the-21st-century/ Just a few quick thoughts. It really seems to me that the Russians as a people and as a nation have really lost their identity. They really don’t know what they want to be. They tried some democracy, now they are trying some totalitarianism again with Putin as the shadow president.

It seems to me that Russia hasn’t been able to shake it’s image of an also ran super power that is full of nothing but Vodka swilling people that wear cool hats.

]]> http://www.seanlarsen.com/index.php/2008/08/the-russian-quest-for-relevancy-in-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 Space: Russian Astronaut Uses ISS to Take Photos of Ossetia Invasion while NASA Looks to the Other Side http://www.seanlarsen.com/index.php/2008/08/space-russian-astronaut-uses-iss-to-take-photos-of-ossetia-invasion-while-nasa-looks-to-the-other-side/ http://www.seanlarsen.com/index.php/2008/08/space-russian-astronaut-uses-iss-to-take-photos-of-ossetia-invasion-while-nasa-looks-to-the-other-side/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:23:12 +0000 guru http://www.seanlarsen.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/space-russian-astronaut-uses-iss-to-take-photos-of-ossetia-invasion-while-nasa-looks-to-the-other-side/ Is this basically one step from having a guy with a telescope in an observation balloon? You would think the ‘mighty’ russians could afford some sort of Satellite for this kind of thing…

From Gizmodo:

[From Space: Russian Astronaut Uses ISS to Take Photos of Ossetia Invasion while NASA Looks to the Other Side]

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