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Amazing! I live relatively close to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, and I didn’t know that a tourist train runs around Lake Baikal using Trans-Baikal Railway until I read the following press release from Russian Railways.
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Not like a big fan of military stuff, but the following news is pretty interesting. Last week, a powerful Voronezh-M radar has been activated in Usolye-Sibirskoye town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia’s Siberia, RIA Novosti reports.
The Voronezh-M radar installtion in Siberia was done in accordance with government efforts to replace a Soviet-era system.
The radar scans the area between China and the northeast United States. Voronezh-M can identify ballistic missiles at ranges up to 3,730 miles (instead of that Soviet-era Dnepr’s 1,550 miles.
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