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Welcome to Bear Rising, a blog designed to track Russian military and related economic developments.

Much of the everyday news in the ever more frequent military events in Russia are not easily available to non-Russian speakers. I will attempt to provide a source of quick updates on relevant events by translating, summarizing and linking to news and analysis articles of interest.

When possible, my second goal is to provide 'the Russian perspective' on international political and military events as presented by the Russian media and authorities.

This blog has no political motives. I neither advocate nor defend Russian government policy. My only goal is to provide a source of information to the English speaker as made available in Russian media outlets. What conclusions a reader draws from this information is outside of the interests of this enterprise.