Life in Russia

[Bill Ryan]

In an X post/Tweet shared by Ravenlocke on the Israel thread, this small comment appears at the end, apparently unconnected with the serious topic of the message.

Meanwhile, Russia is building the Lena Bridge across permafrost.

It was added as a reminder that Russia is committed to major innovative projects focused on creativity and construction... while the rest of the world is falling apart.



But I'd never heard of the Lena Bridge, so I looked it up. The Lena River is in Yakutia, which is an entire region of deep permafrost. That means that the ground is permanently frozen every day of the year, even in the brief summer, and never melts.

So an engineering project like the Lena Bridge is a huge challenge, never considered before. Work is on schedule, everything's going well, and it's due to be completed in 2028. Here's a beautiful image:

[Ravenlocke]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
In an X post/Tweet shared by Ravenlocke on the Israel thread, this small comment appears at the end, apparently unconnected with the serious topic of the message.

Meanwhile, Russia is building the Lena Bridge across permafrost.

It was added as a reminder that Russia is committed to major innovative projects focused on creativity and construction... while the rest of the world is falling apart.



But I'd never heard of the Lena Bridge, so I looked it up. The Lena River is in Yakutia, which is an entire region of deep permafrost. That means that the ground is permanently frozen every day of the year, even in the brief summer, and never melts.

So an engineering project like the Lena Bridge is a huge challenge, never considered before. Work is on schedule, everything's going well, and it's due to be completed in 2028. Here's a beautiful image:

Also see this bridge description here in this thread,

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1696632

[Tintin]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
In an X post/Tweet shared by Ravenlocke on the Israel thread, this small comment appears at the end, apparently unconnected with the serious topic of the message.

Meanwhile, Russia is building the Lena Bridge across permafrost.

It was added as a reminder that Russia is committed to major innovative projects focused on creativity and construction... while the rest of the world is falling apart.



But I'd never heard of the Lena Bridge, so I looked it up. The Lena River is in Yakutia, which is an entire region of deep permafrost. That means that the ground is permanently frozen every day of the year, even in the brief summer, and never melts.

So an engineering project like the Lena Bridge is a huge challenge, never considered before. Work is on schedule, everything's going well, and it's due to be completed in 2028. Here's a beautiful image:

The Lena river is also the longest in Russia

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Tintin (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
In an X post/Tweet shared by Ravenlocke on the Israel thread, this small comment appears at the end, apparently unconnected with the serious topic of the message.

Meanwhile, Russia is building the Lena Bridge across permafrost.

It was added as a reminder that Russia is committed to major innovative projects focused on creativity and construction... while the rest of the world is falling apart.



But I'd never heard of the Lena Bridge, so I looked it up. The Lena River is in Yakutia, which is an entire region of deep permafrost. That means that the ground is permanently frozen every day of the year, even in the brief summer, and never melts.

So an engineering project like the Lena Bridge is a huge challenge, never considered before. Work is on schedule, everything's going well, and it's due to be completed in 2028. Here's a beautiful image:

The Lena river is also the longest in Russia

Yes! And I confess I'd quite forgotten Ravenlocke/Carm had posted about the new bridge back in December. I found several YouTube videos about it (in Russian!) and it's really quite something they've undertaken there. So few in the west know what the Russians, and of course also the Chinese, are constantly building in terms of infrastructure investment for future generations.

[Ravenlocke]

Trade routes are very important in the geopolitics game. Russia and China have been investing and developing alternate trade routes for quite some time. Latest has been the arctic route but that’s just used in winter. Russia has also completed a bridge over the Amur River that goes to China. And there is also the international North South Transport corridor, the INSTC, which is a road that includes land and sea and the route from Russia to India is shortened when using the INSTC. It is interesting to observe..

[Ravenlocke]

Sputnik Mundo

Translated from Spanish
🇷🇺🐟 The Horn of Plenty? Picking Herrings by Hand in Eastern Russia

A fairly unusual natural phenomenon was captured on the Russian island of Sakhalin, in the east of the country. Hundreds of herrings fail to return to the sea in time after the tide recedes. One of the witnesses to this rare event was able to pick up several fish by hand, without fishing gear, taking advantage of the situation created by the natural environment.

🗣 "There are a ton of huge fish," notes one of the participants.

https://x.com/SputnikMundo/status/2045207200168054851

Also reported here for anyone that cannot see Sputnik.

China pulse 🇨🇳
Apr 17
Russians are catching herring with their bare hands on Sakhalin Island after the tide recedes. 🐟 Russians are catching herring with their bare hands on Sakhalin Island after the tide recedes. 🐟

https://x.com/Eng_china5/status/2045151627104203233

[Bill Ryan]

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182325

Kremlin Aide Vladimir Medinsky, Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko and National Center for Historical Memory Head Yelena Malysheva laid flowers at the memorial to USSR civilians who fell victim of Nazi genocide during Great Patriotic War in Russia’s Leningrad Region.

April 19 marks the first observance of the recently established Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People.

[Ravenlocke]

Brian McDonald

Sergey Lavrov says Russia will push for international recognition of German Nazi crimes against Soviet civilians as genocide on a par with the Holocaust.

He pointed to the scale of the killings: "The atrocities reached a scale unprecedented in history… around 14 million civilians in the Soviet Union were killed during the occupation... [and these crimes have no statute of limitations."

Lavrov linked this to the legal framework that followed WWII, noting that "the outcomes of the Nuremberg Tribunal laid the foundation" for the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...40616647520678

[Ravenlocke]

Brian McDonald

A tiger got spooked, jumped into the crowd, and wandered through the audience at a circus in Russia's Rostov-on-Don.

Luckily, it had already eaten.

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...46468662477106

[Ravenlocke]

RT_India

From The Kremlin To Kim: Road Bridge Between Russia & DPRK Finally Connected Ahead Of June 2026 Opening

https://x.com/RT_India_news/status/2046506800380522861

Chay Bowes

A road bridge now connects Russia and North Korea.

It crosses the Tumannaya ('Misty') River on the border of the two countries. Today, the last flight docking ceremony took place.

Traffic will start in June.

https://x.com/BowesChay/status/2046526449947910568

[Jaak]

Im 800km from Moscow and yesterday was snowing here also and very strong stormy winds . But wasnt as bad in here as in Moscow.
Winter snow melted away months ago. Some odd cold wave happening.