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CentralAsia-topographicdepot-1873 $7,500.00 Title Карта Средней Азии. / Map of Central Asia.   1873 (dated)         1 : 4200000 Description This is an impressive large scale 1873 Russian-language map of central Asia compiled by the Imperial Russian Topographic Depot for the 1873 Invasion of Khiva - with manuscript annotations detailing a British spy's travels. Coverage extends from the Black Sea to Nepal, and the Persian Gulf to the Bay of Bengal. The area covered includes the Caspian and Aral Seas, the Persian Gulf, and the modern-d...

Antiwar.com Original Thursday, shortly after the White House issued its four-page Fact Sheet on the sanctions about to be imposed on Russia (“Imposing Costs for Harmful Foreign Activities by the Russian Government”), I was invited by RT International in Moscow to be a “first responder” and provide an analytical comment at the top of their 16.00 news hour program. I did this with considerable pleasure since before we went on air I was tossed an opening question that played into my game perfectly: “The new sanctions come despite Washington saying it wants a ‘stable re...

General Staff commission starts inspection of troops in Russia’s east The chief of the Russian General staff heard reports by Eastern Military District Commander Colonel General Gennady Zhidko, officials of military authorities and commanders of military units on fulfilling a set of operational and combat training measures and also inspected infrastructural facilities of cantonments and practice ranges MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Army General Valery Gerasimov will inspect military units and formations of the Eastern Military District in...

A few years ago, I directed  Harvard Extension School’s “Crisis Game,” in which students had to play out a hypothetical Cold War crisis involving nuclear weapons. The realization that a crisis could escalate to nuclear war shocked younger students who had never given much thought to this issue, especially when they found the game sliding from an exercise in negotiation toward nuclear doom. (“I was literally sweating,” one of the players later said.) But is a nuclear war between Russia and America possible today? After all, there is no longer a Cold War, the Soviet Union and its mi...

Chief of General Staff Gerasimov Takes Over Russia’s Academy of Military Sciences: What to Expect From Russian Planning for Future Warfare? Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 15 Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov (Source: sipol.at) Army General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s General Staff (CGS) and first deputy defense minister, has been chosen as the new president of the Academy of Military Sciences ( Akademii Voyennykh Nauk—AVN). This does not mean Gerasimov has left his current position as CGS; he will hold the presidency of the AVN in tand...