Tanks and troops and ICBMs, oh my!

It seems just like old times! The Guardian has a very good take on the renewed display of military might in Red Square. The BBC also has a spot on this. Most amusing in that article was a quote from V. Putin, who "said earlier that the display of heavy weapons in this year's Victory Day parade was 'not sabre-rattling', but 'a demonstration of our growing defence capability'."

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Previously undiscussed here: Georgia accuses Russia of shooting down drone.

Questions from this: How did Georgia have or get a drone? Who sold it to them, or did they make it themselves?

Second, the shoot-down happened on 21 April, and occurred over the separatist region of Abkhazia. It seems likely that Russia would not want Abkhazia to break off from Georgia — we don't want to give the Chechens any ideas, eh?