True, because it is beneficial for Germany to stay in the European Union. Also, about the Kaliningrad Oblast being the headquarters of the Russian Baltic Fleet is true and the port in Kaliningrad is ice free, unlike Saint Petersburg which can block by ice in winter months.
A New Beginning - Our 1992 Russian Federation
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Krolevets is in Polish, in Russian it's Korolevets.
Poland would get funny ideas if we give the city a Polish name.
Chapter Twelve: Enviromental issues in Russia (May - December 1996)
(Prime Minister Sobchak would completely break with liberal policies of Yavlinsky)
After many days of negotiations between Russian and Japanese delegations, which were held in Vladivostok, both sides were unable to find a common ground in regard to the dispute over the Kuril Islands. The Japanese government maintained their claims over the disputed islands, while the Russians stated that the matter was settled by the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951, where Japan renounced "all right, title and claim to the Kuril Islands", though the treaty did not explicitly recognized the Soviet Union's sovereignty over them. Japan claimed that at least some of the disputed islands were not a part of the Kuril Islands and thus were not covered by the treaty. Russia maintained that the Soviet Union's sovereignty over the islands was recognized in post-war agreements. Japan and the Soviet Union ended their formal state of war with the Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, but did not sign a peace treaty. At the end, both sides were able to sign a number of commercial and trade treaties. Following the growing disagreements between President Fyodorov and Prime Minister Yavlinsky, Fyodorov made a decision to dismiss Yavlinsky from his post after the upcoming presidential elections. In Yavlinsky's place, the current deputy prime minister for the fuel-energy complex, Anatoly Sobchak was chosen, who during his tenure would focus, among other things, on the economic development of Russia, combating environmental degradation, and expanding business opportunities in the country. In response to the recent Islamic terrorist attacks in the Northern Caucasus, the Russian government began a full-scale counterterrorist operation in the region, along with a number of programs aimed at preparing the Russian state and civilian population for the terrorist threat.
On 16 June 1996, presidential elections were held in Russia, which was the first presidential election to take place in post-Soviet Russia. The elections resulted in victory for the incumbent President of Russia, Svyatoslav Fyodorov, who in the first round of elections defeated candidates such as Boris Yeltsin, Gennady Zugyanov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky or the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who ran as an independent and a self-proclaimed social democrat candidate. His campaign was hampered both by strong public disdain for him and a strong lack of media coverage for his candidacy. Due to recent terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and ongoing Islamist insurrections in the region, those topics dominated the debate during the campaign. Other candidates accused President Fyodorov of inaction and incompetence in regard to dealing with the terrorist threat in Russia. Nevertheless, other candidates had no chance of defeating President Fyodorov, who, due to his competent tenure, has drastically improved the situation in Russia, since becoming president in 1991. What was noteworthy were the weaker than expected results for Boris Yeltsin, which forced him to hand over power in his coalition to Boris Nemtsov, and the good results of Gennady Zugyanov, who ran his campaign on very strong nationalist slogans.
Results of presidential elections:
Registered voters: 108,495,023
Turnout: 83,1% (90,159,364)
Svyatoslav Fyodorov (United Russia) - 50.99% (45,972,259)
Boris Yeltsin (Democratic Alliance for Russia) – 24.21% (21,827,582)
Gennady Zugyanov (Communist Party of RF) – 17.33% (15,624,617)
Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Liberal Democratic Party of Russia) – 3.88% (3,498,183)
Other candidates/Invalid votes – 3.59% (3,236,721)
(The crashsite of Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801)
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 was an international charter flight from Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, to Svalbard Airport on Spitsbergen, in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. On 29 August 1996 at 10:22:23 CEST, a Tupolev Tu-154M operating this flight crashed into the ground in Operafjellet during the final approach to Svalbard Airport. All 141 people (11 crew members and 130 passengers, of whom three were children) aboard the plane were killed, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Norway. The accident was the result of a series of small navigational errors causing the aircraft to be 3.7 kilometres (2.3 mi; 2.0 nmi) from the approach centerline at the time of impact. The Vnukovo Airlines aircraft, with the registration number RA-85621, had been chartered by Arktikugol, a Russian state-owned coal-mining company, to fly Russian and Ukrainian workers to the towns of Barentsburg and Pyramiden in Svalbard. The accident was a contributing cause for Arktikugol's closure of Pyramiden two years later. The accident was investigated by the Accident Investigation Board Norway with assistance from the Interstate Aviation Committee and became known as the Operafjell accident (Norwegian: Operafjell-ulykken). After the accident, a series of lawsuits determined compensation for the victims' families.
On 20 September, the surviving relatives of each decedent received 2 million Russian rubles (about US$40,000) for each person who died in the accident. Ukrainian relatives stated to Norwegian media that they had not received information about the cause and other issues surrounding the accident. At the time, Ukraine was experiencing high unemployment, and Arktikugol offered wages many times what was then offered in Ukraine. Many miners not only had to support their immediate family, but also relatives. Vnukovo Airlines stated on Ukrainian television that the relatives would receive US$20,000 per person killed. About a year after the accident, all relatives had been offered US$20,000, but about two-thirds of them chose not to accept the amount, and instead started a process to sue the insurance company. Their lawyer, Gunnar Nerdrum, stated that according to both Norwegian and Russian law, they could demand at least US$140,000.
In February 1998, the Norwegian Ministry of Justice stated that the relatives did not have a right to occupational injury compensation from the Norwegian National Insurance. Because of the Svalbard Treaty, the archipelago is an economic free zone and Arktikugol is exempt from paying social insurance, so its employees did not have a right to Norwegian benefits. Had this been the case, widows would have received about NOK 600,000 per worker. By 1998, a few of the relatives had accepted the US$20,000 compensation, while the rest of them were planning to sue both the airline's insurance company and Arktikugol. Among the issues in the case, which took place at Nord-Troms District Court, was whether the accident was to be considered a working accident, and thus would result in injury compensation from the mining company. In November, it was decided that the Ukrainians needed to make a guarantee for NOK 2.5 million to run the case, which they could not afford. They, therefore, had no alternative but to accept the proposal from the insurance company. In June 1999, the parties agreed on a settlement, where the compensation was not disclosed to the public. It was later disclosed that the settlement was about three times the initial offer from the insurance company. In 1999, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs established a scholarship to help children who lost a parent in the accident to take senior secondary and tertiary education.
(Establishment of the SCO would mark a new opening in international relations in Eurasia)
On 26 September 1996, the Shangai Cooperation Organization, which was a Eurasian political, economic, international security and defence organization, was established by China and Russia in Shanghai. The SCO was established as a result of negotiations of governments of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. During the first summint in Shanghai Russian President Svyatoslav Fyodorov and Chinese President Jiang Zemin signed a declaration on a "multipolar world". Subsequent annual summits of the Shanghai Five group occurred in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1997, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in 1998, and in Dushanbe, Tajikistan in 1999. At the Dushanbe summit, members agreed to "oppose intervention in other countries' internal affairs on the reason of 'humanitarianism' and 'protecting human rights;' and support the efforts of one another in safeguarding the five countries' national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and social stability."The Shanghai Five structure helped speed up the members' resolution of border disputes, agree on military deployments in border areas, and address security threats.
(A Tomahawk cruise missile strike on Iraq)
The 1996 cruise missile strikes on Iraq, codenamed Operation Desert Strike, were joint United States Navy–United States Air Force strikes conducted on 3 September against air defense targets in southern Iraq, in response to an Iraqi offensive in the Kurdish Civil War. On 31 August 1996, the Iraqi military launched its biggest offensive since 1991 against the city of Erbil in to defuse the Kurdish Civil War between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Kurdistan Democratic Party. This attack stoked American fears and placed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 forbidding repression of Iraq's ethnic minorities. The strikes were initially planned to be by aircraft launched from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, including aircraft from Fighter Squadron 11 (VF-11) and Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31), both operating F-14D Tomcats; Electronic Attack Squadron 139 (VAQ-139), operating EA-6B Prowlers; Attack Squadron 196 (VA-196), operating A-6E SWIP Intruders equipped with the Target Recognition and Attack Multi-Sensor (TRAM) system; Anti-Submarine Squadron 35 (VS-35) flying S-3B Vikings; and Strike Fighter Squadron 113 (VFA-113) and Strike Fighter Squadron 25 (VFA-25), both operating F/A-18C Hornets. However the strike was instead launched by U.S. Navy surface warships and U.S. Air Force (USAF) bombers, using cruise missiles.
On 3 September 1996, a joint operation by the U.S. Navy's Carl Vinson Carrier Battle Group and the USAF, a combined strike team consisting of the guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh, the guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon, and B-52 Stratofortress bombers escorted by F-14D Tomcat fighters from Carl Vinson, with the nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser USS California serving as Air Warfare Commander, launched 27 cruise missiles against Iraqi air defense targets in southern Iraq. A second wave of 17 missiles was launched later that day from the destroyers USS Russell, USS Hewitt, USS Laboon, and the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Jefferson City. The missiles hit targets in and around Kut, Iskandariyah, Nasiriyah, and Tallil.
The attacks were primarily aimed at retaliation for the targeting of USAF fighters in the Northern and Southern no-fly zones, and were targeted at surface-to-air missile sites and command, control, and communication locations, with the intention of degrading the Iraqi air defense infrastructure. These strikes, along with follow-on deployments of troops, aircraft, and the addition of a second aircraft carrier to the region, achieved their desired results. It is debatable whether the attacks did or did not have a substantial effect on Iraq's northern campaign. Once they installed the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in control of Irbil, Iraqi troops withdrew from the Kurdish region back to their initial positions. The KDP drove the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) from its other strongholds, and with additional Iraqi help, captured Sulaymaniyah. The PUK and its leader, Jalal Talabani, retreated to the border, and U.S. forces evacuated 700 Iraqi National Congress personnel and 6,000 pro-Western Kurds out of northern Iraq. In response to Iraq's moves, the United States and United Kingdom also expanded Operation Southern Watch and the southern Iraqi no-fly zones from the 32nd parallel to the 33rd parallel, bringing it to the edges of Baghdad itself.
(Prevention of the environmental degradation became a priority for Prime Minister Sobchak)
Environmental issues in Russia included pollution and erosion, and had impacts on people, wildlife and ecosystems. Many of the issues had been attributed to policies that were made during the early Soviet Union, at a time when many officials felt that pollution control was an unnecessary hindrance to economic development and industrialization, and, even though numerous attempts were made by the Soviet government to alleviate the situation in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the problems were not completely solved. By the 1990s, 40% of Russia's territory began demonstrating symptoms of significant ecological stress, largely due to a diverse number of environmental issues, including deforestation, energy irresponsibility, pollution, and nuclear waste.
Excessive logging was causing the widespread deforestation of certain areas of Russia. Despite efforts of Russian authorities to preserve forests using nature reserves and parks, funding for park rangers was lacking, limiting the protection of forests. Illegal logging was also widespread, especially in the north-west and in the Far East parts of Russia. Up to its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union generated 1.5 times as much pollution per unit of GNP as the United States. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Volgograd, as well as other major industrial and population centers, had the highest concentrations of air pollution. Overall, over 200 cities in Russia exceed pollution limits, and this is increasing as more vehicles appear on the roads. Before the 1990s, most air pollution came from industries. When industrial production declined, emissions of air pollutants from those sources also declined, although the amount of motor vehicles on the roads skyrocketed.
Water pollution was a serious problem in Russia. Towards the end of the Soviet era the government increasingly recognized the need to take care of the spawning sites and habitats of fish, in order to return fish catches to what they had been. This has caused health issues in many cities as well as in the countryside, as only 8% of wastewater is fully treated before being returned to waterways. Obsolete and inefficient water treatment facilities, as well as a lack of funding, have caused heavy pollution, and has also resulted in waterborne disease spread, such as an outbreak of cholera spread by the Moskva River in 1995. Industrial and chemical waste is often dumped into waterways, including hydrogen sulfide, which has been linked to the large-scale death of fish in the Black and Caspian seas. Lake Baikal was previously a target of environmental pollution from paper plants, but cleanup efforts since then have greatly reduced the ecological strain on the lake. Unsafe dumping methods have been used sometimes to get rid of military nuclear waste, which was dumped into the Sea of Japan until 1993. The testing and production of nuclear weapons also affected the environment, such as at the Mayak atomic weapons production plant near Chelyabinsk.
The Kotlyakovskoye Cemetery bombing was an attack on a funeral service in Moscow which killed fourteen people on November 10, 1996. The bombing, carried out via remote control, targeted members of an Afghan War veterans support group as well as their families. The victims were attending the funeral of Mikhail Lihodey, the former president of the veterans group who had been killed with his bodyguard in 1994. The bombing was carried out by Andrei Anohin and Mikhail Smurov, former members of the organisation who formed a splinter group following what was believed to be a dispute over profits from the sales of cigarettes and alcohol. Veterans organisations were exempt from import tax and thus had the potential to generate large profits, which along with the violent experiences of the veterans and the corrupt environment of gangster capitalism in the 1990s meant a number of these organisations became criminalised.
(Silvio Berlusconi enroute to Russia)
In the meantime, Silvio Berlusconi, an Italian media tycoon and prime minister made a state visit to Russia. Berlusconi rose into the financial elite of Italy in the late 1960s. He was the controlling shareholder of Mediaset and owned the Italian football club AC Milan from 1986. He was nicknamed Il Cavaliere (The Knight) for his Order of Merit for Labour. Berlusconi was known for his populist political style and brash personality. In his long tenure, he was often accused of being an authoritarian leader and a strongman. At the height of his power, Berlusconi was the richest person in Italy, owned three of the main TV channels of the country, and indirectly controlled RAI through his own government. He was the owner of Italy's biggest publishing company, several newspapers and magazines, and one of the main football clubs in Europe.
Sivlio Berlusconi had a warm relationship with President Fyodorov. The New York Times leaked American state diplomatic cables showing that American officials voiced concerns over Berlusconi's extraordinary closeness to Fyodorov, "including 'lavish gifts,' lucrative energy contracts and a 'shadowy' Russian-speaking Italian go-between". Nevertheless, during negotiations held in Moscow Berlusconi agreed for a building of the South Stream, which would be pipeline to transport natural gas of the Russian Federation through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and through Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia further to Austria. The pipeline would be a joint project of Russian state-owned Gazprom and Italy's state-owned energy company Eni. Nevertheless, for an agreement Berlusconi demanded from Russia a percentage of profits from any pipelines developed by Gazprom in coordination with Eni S.p.A., as well as privatization of several companies in Russia, which Berlusconi wanted to purchase. Additionally, Berlusconi promised to become a the mouthpiece of Russia in Europe if agreement was reached.
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1. Should the Russian government agree to the deal proposed by Silvio Berlusconi?
A) Yes;
B) No.
2. Please write down, how should the government deal with the environmental degradation in Russia?
3. Thanks to the American, European and Japanese credits, the Russian government can pursue begin new projects in order to modernize the country. Please write down which industrial/economic/infrastructural projects should be pursued by the Russian government?
4. Which name should replace Kaliningrad?
A) Nevskygrad;
B) Alexandronevskygrad;
C) Svyato-Aleksandro-Nevsky-Grad ;
D) Svyato-Aleksandro-Grad;
E) Kónigsberg;
F) Elizavetagrad;
G) Korolevets;
H) Kaliningrad should remain.
A) Yes;
B) No.
2. Please write down, how should the government deal with the environmental degradation in Russia?
3. Thanks to the American, European and Japanese credits, the Russian government can pursue begin new projects in order to modernize the country. Please write down which industrial/economic/infrastructural projects should be pursued by the Russian government?
4. Which name should replace Kaliningrad?
A) Nevskygrad;
B) Alexandronevskygrad;
C) Svyato-Aleksandro-Nevsky-Grad ;
D) Svyato-Aleksandro-Grad;
E) Kónigsberg;
F) Elizavetagrad;
G) Korolevets;
H) Kaliningrad should remain.
A) Yes, gaining influence in European affairs is an important aspect of Russian diplomacy. I don't want any companies vital for national security up for sale, but considering OTL Berlusconi was mostly focused on the Media, this shouldn't be a problem at all.
The only real idea I have is, Russia is fourth in 'Rare Earth Metal' reserves in the world. These metals are used in a multitude of applications, but the most important in the modern world are perhaps uses in computing. Allowing the possibility to use these reserves to build up a national tech industry, to compete with China who holds dominance in the market.
D or H, I'm okay with either of those choices.
I don't really have any ideas for this one, would like to see others thoughts before I say anything.
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GDP Ranking (1997)
1. United States - $8,647,600M
2. Japan - $4,532,449M
3. Germany - $2,284,694M
4. United Kingdom - $1,592,135M
5. France - $1,484,555M
6. Italy - $1,268,228M
7. China- $1,000,991M
8. Brazil - $903,862M
9. Russia - $703,363M
10. Canada - $690,010M
11. Spain - $609,376M
12. South Korea - $591,860M
13. Mexico - $525,416M
14. India - $453,189M
15. Australia - $446,424M
2. Japan - $4,532,449M
3. Germany - $2,284,694M
4. United Kingdom - $1,592,135M
5. France - $1,484,555M
6. Italy - $1,268,228M
7. China- $1,000,991M
8. Brazil - $903,862M
9. Russia - $703,363M
10. Canada - $690,010M
11. Spain - $609,376M
12. South Korea - $591,860M
13. Mexico - $525,416M
14. India - $453,189M
15. Australia - $446,424M
I feel we might need to think over these problems have no easy solution to implement.
1. Should the Russian government agree to the deal proposed by Silvio Berlusconi?
A) Yes;
This deal offers a lot but at the same time requires some thought, the Italian government being pro Russia is not worth much unless we have a idea how to utilize it. Yugoslavia is if not completely over is for the most part no longer a active war and we achieved our aims, Chechnya is a active issue but unless we somehow convince Italy to promote Jihad elsewhere won't amount to much, I guess promoting tourism and further economic integration and narrative Georgian revanchism is a threat to peace in Europe?
Basically I support the move but feel we need to think of a way to use this influence than think it's passive, Italy might change sooner or later.
2. Please write down, how should the government deal with the environmental degradation in Russia?
Enforce more strict environmental regulations, this is problem that will take a long while to fix if ever but slowing the degradation should be doable.
3. Thanks to the American, European and Japanese credits, the Russian government can pursue begin new projects in order to modernize the country. Please write down which industrial/economic/infrastructural projects should be pursued by the Russian government?
Renovate Russia's water infrastructure, this killing two birds with one stone helping the environment, improve government PR and military purposes after all soldiers need water and this should help reconstruction for the conflict in Chechnya.
One idea I'm considering is creating/renovating a more modern highway/train system between Moscow to Minsk as a sign of the new Union state as a political statement but also hopefully encourage it a transit/trade route from our a nation to the rest of Europe. I'm a bit worried it might be a bit of a monument to ego but do think relying on old soviet routes might send the wrong message plus it won't last forever may as well replace now while we have the funds.
4. Which name should replace Kaliningrad?
H) Kaliningrad should remain.
1. Should the Russian government agree to the deal proposed by Silvio Berlusconi?
A) Yes;
This deal offers a lot but at the same time requires some thought, the Italian government being pro Russia is not worth much unless we have a idea how to utilize it. Yugoslavia is if not completely over is for the most part no longer a active war and we achieved our aims, Chechnya is a active issue but unless we somehow convince Italy to promote Jihad elsewhere won't amount to much, I guess promoting tourism and further economic integration and narrative Georgian revanchism is a threat to peace in Europe?
Basically I support the move but feel we need to think of a way to use this influence than think it's passive, Italy might change sooner or later.
2. Please write down, how should the government deal with the environmental degradation in Russia?
Enforce more strict environmental regulations, this is problem that will take a long while to fix if ever but slowing the degradation should be doable.
3. Thanks to the American, European and Japanese credits, the Russian government can pursue begin new projects in order to modernize the country. Please write down which industrial/economic/infrastructural projects should be pursued by the Russian government?
Renovate Russia's water infrastructure, this killing two birds with one stone helping the environment, improve government PR and military purposes after all soldiers need water and this should help reconstruction for the conflict in Chechnya.
One idea I'm considering is creating/renovating a more modern highway/train system between Moscow to Minsk as a sign of the new Union state as a political statement but also hopefully encourage it a transit/trade route from our a nation to the rest of Europe. I'm a bit worried it might be a bit of a monument to ego but do think relying on old soviet routes might send the wrong message plus it won't last forever may as well replace now while we have the funds.
4. Which name should replace Kaliningrad?
H) Kaliningrad should remain.
A) Yes; As long as it's not important to National security of Russia, or its of vital interest to the economy (Automotive, Computing etc).
Set 8 year plan with allocation of founds so we may deal with all these problems eventually because as of now we have no money...
- Increase funding for park rangers
- Modernize water treatment facilities and increase the funding
- Set fines for unsafe dumping of industrial vaste outside of designated areas
-Set up state ecological bodies tasked with dealing with these matters
- Lead more cleanup efforts
- Invest into production of electric cars
Obviously what President Fyodorov promised in his 1991 election campaign, time has come to finance and develop Russian Computing and semiconductor industry.
- Introduce the laws that prefer Russian made Systems and semicinductors , as well as standardization of production.
- Subsidize Private and State companies and help them develop new designs and offer low interest loans for necessary equipment from the West.
- Invest into funding of research and development (R&D) in semiconductor manufacturing equipment
- Invest into cooperation between various private and public companies and name the cooperation "Russian Technological Association " where Russian main computing companies should cooperate on development of New Semiconductor technology. Though do make sure to...
- Divide those into the companies that specialize into designing new Semiconductors and into those that specialize into the Manufacturing of Semiconductors (specialization is the key to success) .
- Invest into production of electric cars (work closely with Automotive industry on this).
Infrastructure:
- Invest into current ER - 200 design and work to further improve it
- Set a line between Moscow and Saint Petersburg as well as across all major towns of European Russia with a goal to connect all of them with high speedy railway.
- Invest in expansion of production of Gallium and Germanium as well as all other metals important for semiconductor industry.
Don't have the opinion here besides the fact that Kónigsberg isn't popular among the locals... Otherwise i don't know... I think I'll go with Elizavetagrad. We need to come into contact with our Tsarist past and Elisabeth deserves recognition for almost beating Frederik the Great if not for the fact that her untimely death stopped her. She will be glad that her work was completed.
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1. A) Same as everyone honestly.
I agree with @Kriss' and *@ruffino's plan for 2 & 3.
4. Honestly, any name that isn't so long and (what I view) pro-monarchist names so... it's either E or H as I'd like the return of Kónigsberg but translated into Russian (Kenigsberg) but if that doesn't work then keep it Kaliningrad then...
*Added ruffino's plan.
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I'm big time against renaming places after the former Tsarist regime pre-Russian Revolution.
I agree with @Kriss' and *@ruffino's plan for 2 & 3.
4. Honestly, any name that isn't so long and (what I view) pro-monarchist names so... it's either E or H as I'd like the return of Kónigsberg but translated into Russian (Kenigsberg) but if that doesn't work then keep it Kaliningrad then...
*Added ruffino's plan.
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I'm big time against renaming places after the former Tsarist regime pre-Russian Revolution.
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I wouldn't call it Tsarist regime, it's quite before modern history and we could say that Federik the Great is still quite popular in Germany, or Washington still being popular in America...
Basically there's no harm in coming into contact with the past, especially since it constitutes such a significant chunk of Russian history and identity.
1. A seems to be the consensus so I'll agree to it.
2&3. I agree with @Kriss.
4. H) Kaliningrad is a fine enough name.
1 - A; but negotiating the percentages and the companies to be privatized. It is a lucrative agreement and one that would earn Russia a spokesperson in the EU, apart from increasing the volume of Russian gas consumed in Europe compared to other competitors.
2 - At first, the typical campaigns about raising awareness about recycling, removing waste... But going one step further.
- Organize "Operation Tree" with schools and youth clubs, through which a project will be proposed to plant and care for a native tree sapling in the region in which they are located. When the time comes, the entire class will participate in replanting the tree in a forest, contributing to recovering the Russian forest mass.
- Create a strict campaign to protect and care for natural spaces, heavily fining anyone who dares to disturb them.
- Establish strict measures on pollution from factories, farms, mines... and prohibit the continuation of practices such as dumping waste into rivers.
- Start programs to eliminate undergrowth, dry wood... from forests in order to minimize the risks of forest fires. In these programs, the rural population of the area, who know the terrain, will be encouraged to participate, obtaining a payment for it.
- Start a series of modernizations, improvements and creation of new plants to clean the water before returning it.
- Promote crops that do not consume a lot of water, despite their profitability, with the aim of giving rivers, lakes, and groundwater time to recover their channel.
3 - On the one hand, a part of these credits (5-10%) should be used to acquire patents and production rights in order to reduce Russia's technological gap with other nations.
Another part (30-35%) should be allocated to the creation and improvement of vital infrastructure (ports, roads, power plants...)
The rest should be allocated to industry, acquiring percentages of national or foreign companies useful to the nation, offering subsidies and aid to companies for improvements, creation of new companies, hiring...
4 - G
2 - At first, the typical campaigns about raising awareness about recycling, removing waste... But going one step further.
- Organize "Operation Tree" with schools and youth clubs, through which a project will be proposed to plant and care for a native tree sapling in the region in which they are located. When the time comes, the entire class will participate in replanting the tree in a forest, contributing to recovering the Russian forest mass.
- Create a strict campaign to protect and care for natural spaces, heavily fining anyone who dares to disturb them.
- Establish strict measures on pollution from factories, farms, mines... and prohibit the continuation of practices such as dumping waste into rivers.
- Start programs to eliminate undergrowth, dry wood... from forests in order to minimize the risks of forest fires. In these programs, the rural population of the area, who know the terrain, will be encouraged to participate, obtaining a payment for it.
- Start a series of modernizations, improvements and creation of new plants to clean the water before returning it.
- Promote crops that do not consume a lot of water, despite their profitability, with the aim of giving rivers, lakes, and groundwater time to recover their channel.
3 - On the one hand, a part of these credits (5-10%) should be used to acquire patents and production rights in order to reduce Russia's technological gap with other nations.
Another part (30-35%) should be allocated to the creation and improvement of vital infrastructure (ports, roads, power plants...)
The rest should be allocated to industry, acquiring percentages of national or foreign companies useful to the nation, offering subsidies and aid to companies for improvements, creation of new companies, hiring...
4 - G
True but I'd rather not rename a former Prussian/German province after the former rulers.
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1-4, I support @Kriss because it is important for Russia to take good care of its environment. Also, to build Russian tech industry, especially semiconductors from research and development to manufacturing.