Video: Russian Influencer Destroys Lamborghini Urus for Views
24 Mar 2023, 08:38 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / Ever seen a Lamborghini Urus being smashed to pieces on purpose? Well, you're about to, in a viral video that you can watch here
Half-Wheeled Car With Rebar-Reinforced Tires Is As Smooth as Barbed Wire – Because Russia
23 Mar 2023, 22:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A team of Siberian vloggers modified a front-wheel drive automobile to test the functionality of the half-wheel locomotion; results are inconclusive
This Canceled Soviet VTOL Jet Inspired the F-35B, Now It’s Coming to War Thunder
5 Mar 2023, 20:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Though it's hard to say anything nice about the Russian Air Force right now, the Yakovlev Yak-141 showed the best and brightest of Eastern Bloc aviation
Beriev A-50: Russia's Prized Quad-Engine Military Jet That Was Just Attacked in Belarus
28 Feb 2023, 16:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Beriev A-50, believed to have been sabotaged and attacked by Belarusian separatists, is an interesting airplane in its own right
The Old Lada Niva 4x4 Becomes a Light Commercial Vehicle in Russia
26 Jan 2023, 13:14 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / Based on the Niva Legend, Lada's new LCVs are offered in various configurations for the local market, and they cost as much as a Nissan Versa stateside
Russia Completes Latest Su-57 Felon Stealth Fighter Deliveries, NATO Probably Indifferent
8 Jan 2023, 07:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This particular batch of Su-57s comes courtesy of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant (KnAAZ) in the country's far east.
Shenyang J-11: The Chinese Sukhoi Clone That Just Played Chicken With a U.S. Jet
5 Jan 2023, 01:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Shenyang J-11 twin-engine Chinese air superiority fighter is a geopolitical marvel in itself. Thanks to the not-so-smooth Sino-Soviet relationship
France's Nuclear Energy Grid Is the Toast of Europe, But It's Not Enough to Save Everyone
3 Jan 2023, 23:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The French nuclear reactor fleet dotted across the French landscape were built to solve the 1973 OAPEC-driven oil crisis. Some decay has taken place since then
30 Years Before Boom, Sukhoi and Gulfstream Nearly Built a Mach 2 Capable Business Jet
2 Jan 2023, 18:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In an era where collaboration between Russia and the U.S. of any kind sounds preposterous, the Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21 proved otherwise
Land Rover Defender Arctic Trucks AT35 Means Business, Watch It Tackle Some Snow
27 Dec 2022, 21:58 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Arctic Trucks' Russian subsidiary is much obliged to modify the Land Rover Defender 110 with off-road goodies that include 35-inch rubber boots
Russia Built This Forward-Wing-Sweep Jet Fighter Prototype In the Middle of Falling Apart
27 Dec 2022, 20:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / None of Russia's 1990's tomfoolery stopped Sukhoi engineers from building a forward-wing-sweep jet fighter prototype that actually ran and drove as advertised
Mazepin Made His Yacht Disappear as It Sat Frozen in Sardinia, Poof!
13 Dec 2022, 10:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Sanctioned Russian oligarch is accused of deliberately sailing his luxury yacht out of Italy, just as authorities were about to impound it
This Long Dead Russian Carmaker Just Returned From the Crypt, Here's Its Bizarre Story
24 Nov 2022, 06:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Moskvitch brand has returned after two decades, doing so with the Moskvitch 3 crossover SUV reported to be built with a great deal of assistance from China
Seized $75 Million Axioma Superyacht Is Still in Gibraltar, Despite Selling at Auction
21 Nov 2022, 11:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Owned by known Putin associate Dmitry Pumpyansky, the $75 million superyacht was seized in March over an outstanding debt, and sold at forced auction in Septemb
Petition Asks for $120 Million Amore Vero Superyacht to Be Turned Into Refugee Hotel
10 Nov 2022, 10:50 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Repurpose seized assets to actually get some use out of them, one petition asks in reference to Amore Vero, which was seized in March and has been sitting since
Ford Exits Russia After Selling Its Stake in the Sollers Ford Joint Venture
27 Oct 2022, 14:44 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Ford may have sold everything it had in the JV with Sollers, but it retains the option to repurchase its shares within a 5-year period
Mercedes Becomes the Latest Automaker to Quit Russia Following Ukraine Invasion
27 Oct 2022, 06:52 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / Mercedes will sell its shares to Avtodom, a local chain of car dealerships, but they won't give up on their 15% stake in Kamaz
Governments Are Realizing That Seizing Oligarchs’ Superyachts Was Not the Best Idea
22 Oct 2022, 05:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Unprecedented economic sanctions, including the seizure of luxury assets, “do not seem to have the crippling effect intended”
Nissan Officially Leaving Russia for Good, Will Take a Huge Financial Hit
11 Oct 2022, 10:29 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / The Ukraine invasion has forced Nissan to sell its entire local operations, including the Marketing Center in Moscow, and R&D facilities in St. Petersburg
Vladimir Putin Adds to His Fleet of Luxury Toys: A Tractor That He Got as Birthday Gift
11 Oct 2022, 09:07 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Europe’s “last dictator” Alexander Lukashenko attends birthday celebrations for Putin’s 70th with a gift certificate for a homemade tractor