Putin went to Tatarstan to accomplish several things. One was to preside over the opening ceremony of the Games of Future International Tournament where 104 nations sent players, a second was to visit the S.P. Gorbunov Kazan Aviation Plant where he inspected new Tu-160M aircraft. The next day Putin found time to participate in a training flight.
Future games and future planes – Putin never ceases
The nature of sanctions inspired autonomy is made visible at every level – how typical that the nature of international sporting competitions should have been re invented along more intelligent lines
The Olympic Games was the product of a nostalgic throwback, even at the time, I mean the Greek formula rapidly degenerated, and the late 19C revival was worse
As you remark in your article on the ASI Forum, this Olympic Games upgrade, and the frequent talk show forums’ are an element of President Putin’s new style of governance, involving the masses as well as all levels of regional municipal bureaucracies and businesses
Russia was one of the founding members of the "modern" IOC, and was livid over its treatment by that crew and the faked doping scandal that was used to frame and oust Russian participation at international sporting events of all types. This retaliation in the Culture Wars will greatly harm all Western sport as Russia and China are creating their own competitions that will attract the Global Majority. All that ad and other revenues that won't be earned by Western entities in what's a multi-billion dollar industry has got to rankle those who devised this "game."
Future games and future planes – Putin never ceases
The nature of sanctions inspired autonomy is made visible at every level – how typical that the nature of international sporting competitions should have been re invented along more intelligent lines
The Olympic Games was the product of a nostalgic throwback, even at the time, I mean the Greek formula rapidly degenerated, and the late 19C revival was worse
As you remark in your article on the ASI Forum, this Olympic Games upgrade, and the frequent talk show forums’ are an element of President Putin’s new style of governance, involving the masses as well as all levels of regional municipal bureaucracies and businesses
And the use of VEB for financing projects
Russia was one of the founding members of the "modern" IOC, and was livid over its treatment by that crew and the faked doping scandal that was used to frame and oust Russian participation at international sporting events of all types. This retaliation in the Culture Wars will greatly harm all Western sport as Russia and China are creating their own competitions that will attract the Global Majority. All that ad and other revenues that won't be earned by Western entities in what's a multi-billion dollar industry has got to rankle those who devised this "game."
Thanks for the 'Future Games' link, it's available unlike the Ru stuff here in Freedonia (UK).
An interesting concept. I went out to the Games website. It was very well done.
Smart move.
Let the Western world eat cake.
NYT, house organ for the CIA, seems to be taking notice. There might be infighting going on between DoS via WaPo and the CIA via NYT.