Putin Sticks To His Guns With Pledge To Boost Russian Arms Trade -- The Guardian
President vows to expand Moscow's market share as Russia prepares to beat last year's record-breaking global exports total.
anks are designed to do many things: to shoot, to run unstoppably over fields, to intimidate the enemy; in Russia, they are also designed to dance.
Russia marshalled five of them last week to perform in a "tank ballet", humbly entitled Invincible and Legendaryand choreographed by Andrei Melanin of the Bolshoi Theatre. As one of the main attractions at a new annual arms fare designed to boost Russia's standing in the global arms trade, they swayed and waved their gun turrets like limbs to the thumping beat of a Carmen aria souped up on techno .
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My Comment: Why is there a mock-up of the space shuttle in the above Russian tank exercise video?