#Alexander Krylov Krylov Alexander

[just-merce]

UFC Fight Night: Yan vs Dvalishvili

It’s good to see a Fight Night happening in Vegas, not at the Apex. Former Bantamweight Champion Petr yan will headline the card, taking on Merab Dvalishvili. In the evening’s co-main event, Alexander Volkov will meet Alexandr Romanov, While Nikita Krylov and Ryan Spann finally throw down after their bout from UFC Vegas 70 was cancelled. UFC Fight Night: Yan vs Dvalishvili Main Card Petr yan vs…

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🇷🇺 Handsome & tasty machos at the Alexander Krylov Memorial Cup 2024 (credits to wrestrus_000)

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The monument to Grand Duke Alexander Jogailaitis of Lithuania (also the king of Poland) was created by Ukrainians Oleś Sydoryuk and Borys Krylov and is now standing in Kaunas. The cats were added by Lithuanian artist Herta Burbė. :)

[katchwreck]

As of February 6, more than 11 million books were destroyed by the Zelensky regime.

Destroyed books include:

• Anything written in Russian, even classical authors such as Tolstoy, Pushkin et cetera.

• Books by Soviet Ukrainian authors

• Soviet historical books

• Communist literature

In total, more than 19 million books were removed from libraries across Ukraine, mostly so in Kiev and Lviv.

This is more than a third of all available books in the libraries.

Any progressive literature poses a threat to capital imperialism, who resorts to book burning to keep the people ignorant and complacent.

Recently, the Ukrainian regime passed Bill No. 7633 that bans the use of Russian-language sources in academia, including in natural sciences. Even nationalist politicians criticize it, as it will destroy science in Ukraine.

More information here:

List of authors removed from Ukrainian curriculum:

• Alexander Pushkin

• Ivan Krylov

• Anton Chekhov

• Mikhail Lermontov

• Lev Tolstoy

• Ivan Turgenev

• Viktor Nekrasov

• Alexander Griboyedov

• Mikhail Bulgakov

• Alexander Blok

• Vladimir Mayakovsky

• Sergei Yesenin

• Ilf and Petrov

And many others..

P.S.: For anyone asking for sources, this information is publicly available, as the Ukrainian fascists are openly bragging about “derussifying” (= dehumanizing) their libraries and curriculums:

https://www.rada.gov.ua/news/news_kom/232711.html

And here you can see a clip from ABC News where they film as Ukrainian authorities are destroying countless of tonnes of books:

[ricardian-werewolf]

Prelude: Over There

"So prepare, say a prayer Send the word, send the word to beware We'll be over, we're coming over And we won't come back till it's over Over there," - Over There, 1917. ***** Summary: Ravka, 1916, Kiribirsk. War has torn apart Ravka for two years. No one is quite sure who killed the old Tsar, Alexander III, but what is certain is that Fjerda and Shu Han are intent on bringing Ravka to unconditional surrender. For Olga Krylov, war is freedom. A chance to prove her worth while going up against First Army's inherently sexist and classist internal social circles. But it's who she meets one cold night in a mess tent that changes her life for something quite different - a fox in a Major's uniform. ***** CW/TWs: mentions of child marriage, violence, and overt discussions of smoking, famine and child-death.

******* Spring, 1916, Kiribirsk, last stop before the Fold.

Olga Krylov stared down at her dish of slop, and scowled into the watery depths. Clad as she was in the tunic and skirt of First Army issue, she adjusted the hooks and eyes of her collar, and popped them open. Here, behind the lines and next to the looming mass that was the Fold, no one would care if the good Sankta of First Army loosened her collar. She lifted her spoon, was about to dig around in the slop for a hopeful wayward pirogi, when she noted eyes on her.

Hazel ones, belonging to a Major of the regiment she’d so recently been attached to as part of her sniper squadron. His uniform was immaculate, though blood splattered the shoulder. It’d dried, stuck fast to the embroidered fronds of the front of it. She almost pitied him as his eyes widened. Like bullets digging into flesh, his pupils expanded.

He knew her. Hell, so did all of the First Army. She was their beloved Sankta Olga, the woman responsible for taking the lives of a whole battalion of Fjerdans with little more than her issued rifle and a few stick-grenades. All while she was crouched in a shell-hole filled with rat-water and surrounded by dead comrades. 

She returned to eating slop. Ensuring that she was somewhat neat in her way of eating, Olga’s eyes returned to staring at this silent major. Their staring contest broke when a man with a bushy salt-and-pepper beard and black hair sat down next to the major.

The man’s face was scarred, flesh cut with jagged lines from embedded shrapnel. There was a medal on his front denoting him a survivor of the first two years of this desperate war - an old boy.

“Dominik!” The major’s voice crowed, carrying with it a fragility that made Olga scowl. Majors were not supposed to be like this - though humanity was appreciated when with the Non-coms and “umpty-umps.” The old breed, the divides between the new and the old guard, all of it angered her. She was a woman, raised to sainthood for her actions, and was as unwelcome as gangrene. Except for a few press exposure pieces, she shot, killed, and slaughtered Fjerdans on her own time.

As for how she and this country had gotten to this point was a matter of rife and intense debate. Some had said that the Kerch merchant council had gone to the Fjerdans with a deal for trade - kill the Tsar - Alexander III, and invade Ravka. With the lecherous, traitorous Prince Vasily on the throne, Ravka would collapse and be wholly open to Kerch interests. There was another camp who argued it’d been Shu Han who’d sent spies to kill Alexander and cripple Ravka from the inside in order to regain its southern holdings. Either way, Ravka was engaged in fighting off a double-front invasion. A masterful pincer movement had taken either eagle’s head and was intent on tearing the throne, her people, and the state to pieces. 

Olga had been a mere child, a bride days away from her marriage, when Alexander had been killed. The famine in Northern Ravka had been an ongoing state crisis for the impoverished country, and the schools had been closed for months. Children dropped dead in the fields next to their starving parents, and mothers drowned their babies in order to save them from a slow death of malnutrition.

It was into this world that Olga had been brought to adulthood with the weight of a wedding band, a gold dress and the crushing pressure of the Kokochinik headpiece upon her raggedy hair. But the wedding had brought her something else as well - freedom. Her husband was a sickly man, older than her by a good 4 decades, and she’d taken her freedom however she could.

Her first kill was emblazoned on the walls of his country Dacha. Right under a Kerch Dekappell of the northern mountains blocking Fjerda, she’d poisoned him with his morning cup of tea, and slipped out. She’d turned over all of his Ravkan coins for soldiers' fatigues, and was in the notorious 34th regiment by the morning after. 

She raised her head. Dominik and the major were still talking.

“Good evening, gentlemen,” Olga purred. Somehow, she’d gotten to her feet and was now standing by their mess-table. Her own medals glittered in the oil lamp by her face. It made her glow like the fated Sun Summoner, turned her mousy hair into spun gold, and cut her chin in the manner of a marble bust.

“Sankta Olga,” Dominik coughed. The Major blinked, his hazel eyes wild-cat green. She smirked, leaned down towards them. “I’m afraid I don’t have the honor of knowing your friend’s name, Major Vertov,”. Doing this was grounds enough for her own punishment. She shuddered. Field Punishment number 1 was notoriously horrific - lashed to a howitzer wheel and held there in full kit for hours. Or maybe she’d get Field Punishment No 4. That was almost infinitely worse. Marching back and forth in full pack, with rifle, again, for hours. All while her commanding officer shouted at her and how much of a failure she was to the Ravkan state. 

“This is Major Nikolai Lantsov,” Dominik sputtered, and indicated the major. Olga saluted, knowing he was her superior. 

“Lieutenant Krylov. A surprise, to grace us with your presence.” Nikolai’s eyes were devoid of their spark now. His seriousness was like a mask. No longer did he crack jokes or bump Dominik’s shoulder. The shift in behavior and mood was startling to a civilian, but Olga merely let it wash over her. She returned the favor, relaxing in his company. 

“I hope I wasn’t disturbing your meal, sir,” she responded with a sharpness that she regretted instantly. Clearing her throat, she dug around in her pocket for a pack of Jurda cigarettes. She found one, and lit it with a match. “Want one, sir?”

“I don’t smoke,” Nikolai replied, sniffing. “Gaspers like that are for the boys. Not me,”

“Weren’t you one of us, once?” Olga’s tone was skating on extremely thin ice. Even the slightest amount of pressure and she’d be in irons before she can even hope to list off all of Nikolai’s titles in correctly descending order. 

He cracked a grin, at last. “You have a sharp way to you, Sankta,” he admonished as he took a cigarette from her crumpled carton. Yet, he didn’t light it. He began to peel the cheap and pulpy paper, and spread the crushed leaves out on the table with his pinky nail. Then, he brought out a razor and divided the leaf down further and further into smaller segments.

“Sir?” Olga asked, partially surprised at his words, and his actions. What kind of major do you have to be to take a cigarette and parcel the Jurda out? 

She turned back to watching the smoke pour from her nostrils in a steady, scented stream. The gas the Fjerdans had deployed in the field was wreaking havoc on Grisha powers and Otkazt’sya lungs in equal pain and misery. They’d deployed Jurda Parem to wreck The Ravkan Second Army forces, who were being pulled back on The Darkling’s orders and once more, First Army was throwing itself into the brunt of the chaos. The Fold crackled ominously. 

“Have you seen the new guns the Fjerdans are using?” Nikolai asked as he leaned forward. He brushed the Jurda away with a wave of his hand, and the smell of it filled the air like a miasma. “Their impact makes your ears hurt for hours afterwards. Some of the men are saying they’re firing them from behind the border.” 

“That’s over 50 miles!” Olga gasped, wheezing. She’d inhaled smoke into her lungs, which made for a coughing fit as the old sores on her lungs reacted. She coughed, hacked, and sighed. The attack passed, but the spinning and black spots danced in her vision for a few more minutes. “Here, tea,” a new voice called out. A voice she recognized with the close familiarity found in a sniper’s shadow. The voice belonged to a man with short cropped brown hair, dark blue eyes, and a hard face. Around his neck was a blue, hand-knitted scarf. His fingers were covered in finger-less gloves, and on his hand was the helmet he called a “brodie,”. He grinned, and sidled in next to her, throwing a snappy salute to both Majors. 

“And you are?” Nikolai asked, his charm once more sweet and flowing like a summer strawberry wine. The man grinned, showing chipped teeth. He offered his hand to shake, and the Ravkan that spilled from his lips was as fluent as any nobleman’s. 

“Will Bird. Sniper shadow to Olga Kylov, and Corporal in His Majesty’s Black Watch of Canada, 42nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force,” Will chirped. He took a cigarette from his own pack and let Olga light it. His grin never faltered. 

“And why are you here? This is the First Army. Most Sniper shadows are Grisha,” Nikolai replied calmly. There was an edge to his voice that reflected up and down the chain of command in the First Army. Underfunded, despised, and ultimately borne to bear the brunt of the fight, Otkazt’sya hated Grisha, so the Second hated the First and vice versa. It was a never-ending see-saw of guns versus Small Science and the power was never balanced fairly. Will continued to smile, though it became a grimace as Olga watched him turn over the question Major Lantsov asked, in his mind. Finally, he spoke, the smile becoming little more than at the corners of his lips. “I’m here because I want to be here. You all may hate me because I’m not Ravkan or whatever hell place you want to say I’m from, but I’ve fought as long and as hard as your men have.” 

“Have you?” Nikolai began, softly in a way that made Olga’s skin go cold with goose-pricks. The fox-prince with the gap-teeth that Olga remembered as her childhood imaginary friend was becoming quite the predator. She wanted to grip Will’s arm in her fingers and keep him from ending up being court-martialed. He settled down, and merely raised an eyebrow.

“No offense meant, Sir,” Will replied calmly. “None taken,”

Will smiled, and stretched his legs out under the table. All around them, the mess tent had filtered out. Men were too preoccupied with spending their last night before they crossed the Fold being distracted. Kvas, cards, brothel-women, anything. A skirt here, a bet lost there. Their voices rose all around them like some sort of prayer to the sins of a last throw of the dice; a spin of Fortuna’s wheel. All before the Fold swallowed them on the sunrise. Olga’s fingers twitched, reached for her wrist where four deep scars were carved into her skin - 4 trips. Two through to West Ravka, two returning.

Tomorrow would upset that perfect number. The Saints were testing her. By bringing the boy of her childhood to her mess hall, by putting her dearest friend across from him. Both men were going to tear each other to pieces for an imagined slight. Olga almost expected a duel to be issued, but scoffed. The idea of two soldiers dueling one another to the death felt… strangely out of place. 

“I’m going to bed. Goodnight Major Lantsov, Major Vertov, Corporal Bird. Rest well,” Olga stood, saluted smartly, and marched out. She didn’t see Will watch her go, his blue eyes fiery in the light of the lamps overhead. All that remained of her seat was the bowl of cold slop and a few, sad pirogi swimming in the greasy film.

The Fold seemed to grow darker, the shadows longer, and the night a little deeper as Olga headed back to her bedroll. She didn’t bother to look back once, and slid almost too easily into a deep, dreamless sleep. End of Prologue.

[alexanderkrylovchef]

Киевский рыбный ресторан «Икра» — одна из гастрономических достопримечательностей для гостей украинской столицы. Это то самое заведение, которое местные искушённые гурманы рекомендуют приезжающим знатокам и ценителям рыбной кухни.

[theanticool]

Nikita Krylov stops Alexander Gustafsson in the 1st

The Mining Al Capone just stopped Alexander Gustafsson. Woof. Krylov came out aggressive. Drops Gus early and hard. Gus recovers but is on skates. Krylov keeps the aggression up and Gus is forced to play defense. Gus caught a kick I think and Krylov threw an uppercut that hurt Gus. Followed up with GnP and it was all over.

Retire Gus. It’s time. It’s beyond time, to be honest.

[beardedmrbean]

A leading Russian paratroop commander has been killed in battle in Ukraine in the latest setback for Vladimir Putin’s war, with several senior military officers having died since the invasion started last month.

Colonel Sergei Sukharev, of the 331st Guards Parachute Assault Regiment from Kostroma, and his deputy Major Sergei Krylov were killed on Thursday, according to the Ukrainian government and Russian state TV.

The colonel was “liquidated” after he “got lost in the ‘[military] exercises’, but returned home the right way”, Ukraine’s Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security (Stratcom) said in a statement.

“It is known that Sukharev’s regiment had fought against Ukraine outside the city Ilovaisk in Donbas back in 2014 and also took part in both Chechen wars and the Russian-Georgian war of 2008,” the centre added.

Senior sergeant Sergei Lebedev, sergeant Alexander Limonov, corporal Yuri Degtyarev, and captain Alexei Nikitin – of the same paratroop regiment – were also killed, according to the BBC. The deaths were also reported by Russian news outlet GTRK Kostroma.

At least four of Vladimir Putin’s generals, and more than 10 senior officers in total, have been killed since he launched the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.

Russian troops are experiencing low morale that had led to an “increase in the number of desertions” and “significant exhaustion of human resources”, Stratcom said.

About 7,000 Russian troops have reportedly died during the conflict, but the true number is not certain as Moscow has only once released its estimated death toll since the start of the full-scale invasion.

Putin’s forces are also facing food and fuel shortages, according to a military intelligence assessment by the UK’s Ministry of Defence – adding that the troops are “faltering” in their ongoing assault on Ukraine.

In 2014, Mr Sukharev had fought in the Battle of Ilovaisk, which started in August 2014, when Ukraine’s army and pro-Ukrainian paramilitaries began a series of attempts to capture the city of eastern city of Ilovaisk from pro-Russian insurgents.

At least 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers died amid the fighting, according to Andriy Senchenko – who had led the Ukrainian parliament’s investigative committee’s probe into the incident. Kyiv has described it as a massacre.

A Ukrainian soldier who survived the battle described it as a “real meat grinder” – the Kyiv Post reported.

The conflict also reportedly saw more than 500 Ukrainian soldiers be taken prisoner by pro-Russian forces.

More recently, in January, Mr Sukharev was seen on Russian TV leading “peacekeeping” troops back from Kazakhstan where they had been sent following a wave of protests sparked by a sharp rise in liquified gas prices.

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Flying boat MBR-2 64th separate squadron of the air force of the black sea fleet and crew: Navigator senior Lieutenant Vasily Kornienko, pilot Lieutenant Nikolai Fedorovich Astakhov, gunner-radio operator Junior Sergeant Alexander Ivanovich Krylov.

[just-merce]

After The Fights: UFC London

After The Fights: UFC London

Here is what happened on the main card at UFC London. Curtis Blaydes vs Tom Aspinall For the second week in a row, the main event ended with an injury. After throwing a leg kick, Tom Aspinall fell back in pain when he put his foot down. It’s a shame that it ended this way. The packed O2 Arena was in for what would have been an exciting fight. What happens now? Well. Aspinall will have to rest and…

[thesportssoundoff]

“For Christmas I  Want....” What the UFC needs per division in 2020

Joey

December 10th

Right around now the majority of us are desperately chasing down gift ideas and huddling our cash together to try and budget it out for the people we care about evenly. In MMA, December means that for one month we spend 31 days pretending that everything's going to be fine in MMA. That the sins of 2019 are gone and won't re-emerge in 2020 and we are about to embark on another insane run like 2015 or 2016. MMA's changing, growing and expanding and shrinking and evolving and degrading all at once around us and so as we embark upon what should be a hectic 2020,  I wanted to take a light hearted approach at examining what 2020 will be. What would the UFC request that the MMA Gods give them in 2020? What are the divisions asking for on their Christmas lists? Let's run down what each division is secretly wishing for when we enter the next year of MMA stupidity.

Flyweight and Women's Featherweight- A bullet

Simply put, both of these divisions would probably be better suited if the UFC just put them out of their misery. 2019 started with a UFC flyweight roster rapidly approaching the single digits and a threat of TJ Dillashaw stepping in to kill the division outright. It ends with a roster of fighters still not too far off the single digits with a champion who seems disinterested in defending the title and clearly has the plans to move up to 135 lbs full time. The likelihood is that the flyweight division will get a title fight or two and then fade off into obscurity as there's no real prospects of note, Benavidez as champion has long lost any luster and the Cejudo good vibes are dead and buried. For women's featherweight, it was a golden carrot to get Cyborg to stop feuding with the organization that hired her. The Cyborg championship era lasted all of two fights and the Amanda Nunes run with the title is dead and/or bloated. Nunes having a token title defense vs Megan Anderson might appease some folks but there's been no development and no real sign of progress. Let these divisions go and let Bellator and Brave/ONE find stuff for them to do.

Men's Bantamweight- Some sizzle for this steak

The UFC's 135 lb division has been one of the more promising developments over the past few years. While it took a slight step backwards for me in 2019, I still think this division is among the best in MMA even if it ranks slightly behind 170 and 155 lbs. There's depth, new talent, a variety of names and faces and personalities and barring something unforseen 20120 figures to keep the pace overall. What it needs in 2020 is for this division to finally get an ROI on some big time names. Henry Cejudo is a promising potential draw at the lighter weight classes but I think he's still going to need help to reach the high end mark on his upside. That requires some names to step up and give him an assortment of fun new challenges. Dominick Cruz needs to get healthy because Cejudo vs Cruz verbally at least has some compelling appeal to it. Cody Garbrandt still has SOME name value and I think if he goes on a streak, we'll see an reset in terms of how fans view him. Jose Aldo and Urijah Faber need to find ways to win tough fights and maintain in the title picture because while I may not care for Cejudo/Aldo or Cejudo/Faber, there are fans who very clearly love these guys and would be absolutely up for seeing them try to capture the title from Cejudo. Guys like MArlon Moraes, Sean O'Malley and Petr Yan need to continue to develop new fanbases and keep up their stretch of exciting fights. This division has a lot of talent but it might need to get a bit greedy in search of some big money fights.

Featherweight- A definitive Max Holloway solution

The UFC spent most of 2018 having open discussions about whether or not Max Holloway was long for the 145 lb division. They talked a bunch about wanting him to move up due to intense weight cuts, saw him move up and then immediately bailed on the idea when he fought Dustin Poirier. My take is that Holloway is still probably destined for 155 lbs and one loss to Dustin Poirier (who is a naturally monstrous dude at 155 lbs) shouldn't deter them. If Max Holloway is hurting his long term health at 145 lbs but may be "too small" for 155 lbs then he'll just need to adapt to that and overcome that the same way Frankie Edgar has done for years. Figuring out what Holloway will be doing in 2020 will probably be aided by the Volkanovski fight but even if Alexander Volkanovski becomes the latest 145 lber to come up short vs Max Holloway, I'm still not convinced I need to see Max toiling at featherweight. As a bonus item or a stocking stuffer if ya will, it SURE would be nice to see the likes of Zabit, Yair Rodriguez, Shane Burgos and Calvin Kattar continue to clear out the 145 lbers who have been sort of lingering in the same spots since about 2016 or so.

Lightweight- For their stars to actually fight

Easy enough, right? The UFC's lightweight division revolves around three names; Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmamegodov and Tony Ferguson. I'd almost argue that Tony Ferguson is a level behind Dustin Poirier drawing wise but I think at peak value, those three guys make this division hum and draw the big numbers. Not even playing the "these guys fight three times a year!" card, the UFC got two fights out of those three guys and one of those (Ferguson vs Cerrone) was a desperation heave at the last minute. If this division is going to go places then Khabib needs to fight more, Conor needs to stay out of trouble and Tony Ferguson needs to come close to resembling the pace he had in 2016 and 2017. Even accounting for Khabib taking time off for Ramadan, this division cannot exist with THIS much talent in it without more fights from those three guys. I guess you could even throw in Justin Gaethje who expects to sit out until the Tony vs Khabib fight happens. You can't have 4 of your top 5 guys not doing anything with so much talent to be tested up and down the rankings.

Welterweight- A break

The welterweight division is the world's dumbest MMA riddle. It sure seems to trumpet out a finish or a "What the fuck is happening?!" fight on a per show basis better than any other division out there. I mean off the top of my head you have Vicente Luque, Tim Means, Mike Perry, Elizeu Zaleski, Niko Price, Geoff Neal, Robbie Lawler, Jorge Masvidal, Santiago Ponzinibbio, Muslim Salikhov, Matt Brown and that doesn't even begin to account for some of the dudes I can't remember off the top of my head. This division is loaded with dudes who exist to hit each other in the head really hard over and over and over until somebody falls down. It's the world's cruelest division in terms of raw violence. Unfortunately at the top of the division, we've basically had the same 4-5 guys hogging up spots and they more often than not tend to bring us fights that fall on the wrong side of the entertainment scale. Even if you like Kamaru Usman, Leon Edwards, Tyron Woodley and Colby Covington, you have to admit you're probably exhausted by four dudes with similar styles and similarly cringy trash talk skills sucking up all the air and hype in this division. The UFC could really use a break from these folks in 2020. If Edwards/Woodley and Usman/Covington go off without a hitch, it'd be nice for us to get somebody new and fun in there just to allow us all the chance to mentally reset. Maybe that's Jorge Masvidal even!

Middleweight- More Israel Adesanya

The UFC has been very fortunate with the health of its breakout star of sorts. Since coming to the UFC at the start of 2018, Israel Adesanya has fought four times one year and three times the next. He's been busy and consistent and either healthy or healthy enough to always make the walk. With some much instability around him, the UFC really needs Adesanya to continue to take fights throughout 2020. If the goal is to do Adesanya vs Jones then he needs to have AT LEAST two fights prior to this (say March and July of 2020) against top competition. Yoel Romero is seemingly going to be one of those guys and you'd assume a healthy Paulo Costa is the other. The goal should be to keep Adesanya busy because you won't have his freshness and ability to fight consistently forever.

Light heavyweight- A genuine Jones challenger

I feel like it speaks to the pain of 205 lbs that Jon Jones' two title fights were against former 185 lbers who had casually beaten the shit out of the guys who once held pole positions in the division without much challenge. 2019 was a weird year for the division as it felt old, stagnant and perhaps worst of all directionless. If you honestly asked the UFC, I'd bet they'd say privately that the biggest disappointment of 2019 revolved around the fact that the fighters they probably expected to move up and provide fresh challenges all failed. Chris Weidman was smoked by Dom Reyes, Jan Blachowicz retired Luke Rockhold, Jacare Souza's 2019 was abysmal and his LHW debut left nobody impressed while Yoel Romero and Anderson Silva stayed home at 185 lbs. If one was to remove Dominick Reyes from the conversation, the next in line would be two guys who have pretty much failed historically when given a major step up (Jan Blachowicz is not too far removed from a four fight losing streak and Corey Anderson has been KO'd by the likes of Gian Villante and Jimi Manuwa) while the likes of Nikita Krylov, Misha Cirkunov, Khalil Rountree and that one polish dude (Michal Oluwalewalebangbang) all sort of did nothing. Even prized prospect Johnny Walker had a topsy turvy 2019 punctuated by getting smelted by Corey Anderson. The UFC needs to end 2020 with one of two things set in stone; 1) A genuine challenge for Jon Jones or 2) an understanding that Jon will be leaving the division for good and the UFC will finally have to invest resources into rebuilding this morbid division.

Heavyweight- More of the same, baby.

Seriously. This division is A-ok. You got a bunch of new dudes beating the shit out of each other, every year 2-3 new doughy guys show up and make a bit of an impact, a new HW to get giddy about from Brazil or Europe or Russia every few months and the likes of Alistair Overeem, Derrick Lewis, Stefan Struve and Andrei Arlovski to tie this shit all together. Let's keep HW happy and dumb, right? The only complaint could be had in every division really; have your champs fighting more.

Women's Strawweight- ALSO more of the same

Seriously this division has really become one of the best in MMA full stop. It still has the well earned reputation of being a decision division but if one wants to be honest, the depth at the top of this place is UNREAL good. Joanna, Zhang, Andrade, Namajunas, Suarez and Ansaroff on their own merits are as strong a top six as any division can offer. Throw in a healthy mix of ladies like Alexa Grasso, Claudia Gadelha, Randa Markos, Carla Esparza, Cynthia Calvillo and Marina Rodriguez and you've got great depth below that. Even if there isn't an influx of exciting fun new names (I think Virna Jirandoba and Brianna Van Buren are really the only two new debutants worth really getting excited over), there's plenty of talent o be had here. This is MMA's most unpredictable division so keep giving us wacky madness then.

Women's Flyweight- An identity

I guess you could sum up a division by its champion and clearly Valentina Shevchenko is the perfect face for this division. She's really talented, sometimes compelling as a fighter but you can't name anything about her besides "She killed Jessica Eye and she has a bullet tattoo!" At this point, what could you say about the women's flyweight division? What's their identity? What makes the women's flyweight division unique? Is it not just a grab bag of fighters too small for 135 lbs, too big for 115 lbs and prospects who are still trying to cut their teeth throughout the division? Women's flyweight fights just feel like they exist, adding nothing but always appearing on shows. What's the key to figuring out this division? They need an identity that gets fans to better understand it.

Women's Bantamweight- Depth beyond Amanda Nunes

I think there's a really good chance that barring the emergence of some faces, this division will not see a woman on the same level of Amanda Nunes, GDR and Holly Holm. What this division needs is depth because Holly Holm is one foot out the door and GDR has already retired once already. Just sign a bunch of ladies!

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Konstantin Leontief y la operación militar especial

Por Maxim Medovarov

Traducción de Juan Gabriel Caro Rivera

Rustem Vakhitov [1] publicó hace poco un artículo muy polémico donde cuestiona la operación militar especial rusa en Ucrania desde las ideas de Konstantin Leontief. Según Vakhitov, Leontief sería escéptico frente a la operación militar especial y no la vería con muy buenos ojos. Si estas palabras fueran escritas por un atlantista liberal rusófobo no nos tomaríamos la molestia de responderlas, pero resulta que son escritas por un “eurasiático de izquierda” que es partidario de construir un Imperio ruso multiétnico y por eso hemos decidido escribir estas líneas.

Vakhitov parte del escepticismo que en su momento manifestó Leontief en 1876 y 1877 hacia la independencia de Bulgaria – y nosotros podríamos agregar que lo mismo pensó de los griegos, serbios y rumanos – de los otomanos. Leontief sostenía que la matanza y opresión de los “turcos” sobre los pueblos balcánicos era mucho más deseable que la europeización de los mismos, tesis que fue compartida por muchos intelectuales rusos conservadores durante 1880 y 1890. Muchos de ellos se sentían decepcionados por la actitud de sus hermanos eslavos y la constante cizaña de los griegos. Personajes como Gringmut, Pobedonostsev, Mijáil Soloviov y los eslavófilos de derecha, Vladimir Lamansky y Alexander Kireev abrazaron las ideas de Leontief y se opusieron a que los pueblos balcánicos construyeran Estados nacionales parlamentarios y oligárquicos basados en las ideas occidentales. Menciono este hecho para subrayar que muchos de estos pensadores simpatizaban con los búlgaros, pero consideraban que la dominación de los otomanos en los Balcanes era mucho mejor que la dominación de los italianos, austriacos, franceses o anglosajones en la zona. La principal razón por la que muchos de ellos hicieron esto fue debido al hecho de que veían como la Ortodoxia se desmoronaba ante los ataques de los gobiernos prooccidentales que se habían formado en Serbia, Rumanía, Bulgaria y Grecia a finales del siglo XIX. Sin embargo, ninguno de ellos defendía que la dominación turca de los Balcanes fuera lo ideal y preferían reemplazarla con la hegemonía del Imperio ruso. Leontief también consideraba que la Rusia liberal de los zares no era digna de conquistar Constantinopla en 1878, pero esperaba que la Rusia del futuro sí lo fuera.  

Rustem Vakhitov acertadamente señala que "Leontief fue uno de los primeros autores que se dio cuenta que el nacionalismo era una ideología burguesa, liberal y prooccidental que no tenía nada de conservadora. Además, Leontief decía que en los países no Occidentales el nacionalismo impone un modo de vida burgués y una política prooccidental” [1]. Esta importante idea la expone Leontief en dos de sus más conocidos artículos: “El nacionalismo como instrumento de la revolución mundial” y “El modo de vida europeo como ideal y medio para la destrucción del mundo”. Tales críticas siguen siendo aplicables a los pocos nacionalistas burgueses rusos que hoy existen como Krylov. Por otro lado, seguimos suscribiendo cada una de las palabras que dijimos en los artículos que escribimos entre el 2018 y el 2020 defendiendo Vakhitov en contra de los nacionalistas burgueses [2; 3]. Sin embargo, la encarnación más radical de este nacionalismo “igualitario”, “exclusivamente masculino”, vulgar y liberal que en su momento denunció Leontief lo podemos ver en Ucrania y no en Rusia. Los atlantistas pro-LGTBI le han dado luz verde a a los nazis ucranianos para que masacren a quienes se les oponen.  

Leontief fue muy agudo al darse cuenta que la promoción del nacionalismo en Europa Oriental, calcado de los movimientos nacionalistas Occidentales, buscaba dos cosas: 1) la destrucción de las tradiciones étnicas populares y 2) la destrucción de la identidad de todos los pueblos que no se ajustaran al modelo impuesto por los nacionalistas. Este proceso que comenzó en los Balcanes, Austria-Hungría y Polonia hoy continua en Ucrania, el Báltico, el Transcáucaso, etc.

Leontief entendió esto muy bien y por eso diferenció la opresión de una etnia o una religión por parte de un Imperio hostil a la misma – caso de los pueblos eslavos oprimidos por los otomanos en los Balcanes – frente a la europeización forzada promovida por el nacionalismo. Es por eso que Leontief recomendó la prohibición del nacionalismo, ya que este bloqueaba la “complejidad floreciente” de las etnias y religiones que no ebcajaban en su modelo. Vakhitov se equivoca al decir que Leontief solo atacaba la persecución de los imperios contra los pueblos oprimidos, pero no las persecuciones que los gobiernos nacionalistas burgueses e igualitarios desataban contra las culturas que interferian en sus objetivos. Existe un ejemplo bastante paradigmático donde Leontief ataca esta “Política Nacionalista”: “A Rumanía, en virtud del Tratado de París, se le cedieron los territorios búlgaros de Besarabia tradicionalmente controlados por los rusos. Sin embargo, estos territorios contaban con estatutos de autonomía desde hace mucho, por lo que el gobierno democrático y constitucional de la nueva Rumanía nacionalista tuvo que someterlos por la fuerza de las armas y luego los obligo a ajustarse a los parámetros de todos los demás territorios mezclando sus poblaciones con otras” [4, с. 540-541]. En su momento Leontief apoyó explícitamente la “revuelta de esta parte de la población” contra el régimen nacionalista burgués rumano y estoy seguro que hoy apoyaría al Donbass y Novorossiya, una especie de Vendea rusa, en contra del nacionalismo prooccidental ucraniano.

Leontief luchó en su momento contra oclocracias muy parecidas a las que nacieron del Maidan, pero, sobre todo, odiaba el nacionalismo totalitario e igualitario burgués que detestaba todo lo ruso u ortodoxo y que hoy vemos encarnado en Kiev. Es precisamente ese nacionalismo burgués el que combate la operación militar especial. Leontief, desde Bizantinismo y eslavismo (1875) hasta llegar a ¿Quién tiene la razón? (1891) escribió siempre contra el nacionalismo burgués de la “Galitzia rusa” el cual estaba “imbuido de puro europeísmo liberal” [4, pp. 119, 121, 657, 658]. En una carta privada que le escribió a Tertiy Filippov decía que “los alborotadores de Galitzia son unos patanes liberales insoportables” [6, p. 621]. Leontief también rechazó la persecución a la Ortodoxia en los Balcanes y que se parece mucho parece mucho a la forma en que los nacionalistas ucranianos persiguen a la Iglesia rusa en su país.

Por lo tanto, el escepticismo que Rustem Vakhitov siente hacia la operación militar especial – dejando a un lado sus críticas a los juegos diplomáticos entre Moscú y Occidente – resultan injustificadas. Vakhitov considera tanto a Leontief como a Savitsky sus maestros y lo que ha demostrado el comienzo de la intervención rusa en Ucrania es que el nacionalismo “tribal” de los grandes rusos se ha esfumado para darle nacimiento a un nuevo nacionalismo imperial, abierto e identitario que los precursores de Vakhitov defendieron. En los campos de batalla de Ucrania los pueblos eslavos, semitas, del Cáucaso, Siberia, además de los ortodoxos, musulmanes, budistas y otras sectas místicas defendidas por Leontief, se han dado la mano para luchar contra sus enemigos. Esta es la “complejidad floreciente” que este autor ruso defendió cuando dijo: “Ahmat es la fuerza y esta fuerza se apoya en los cosacos”. Es precisamente esta fuerza la que quiere destruir el nacionalismo ucraniano apoyado por Occidente con tal de “disolver en una sola entidad” toda Europa del Este para poderla controlar más facilmente. Por eso consideramos que Konstantin Leontief se ha convertido en el padre ideológico de la operación militar especial que hoy se está llevando a cabo en Ucrania.

Literatura:

1. Вахитов Р.Р. Тоска и севрюга консерватора, или как бы отнесся К.Н. Леонтьев к СВО? 30.06.2022. Режим доступа: https://politconservatism.ru/articles/toska-i-sevryuga-konservatora-ili-kak-by-otnessya-k-n-leontev-k-svo

2. Медоваров М.В. От химеры наций к империи народов. 03.08.2018. Режим доступа: https://politconservatism.ru/thinking/ot-himery-natsij-k-imperii-narodov

3. Медоваров М.В. О попытках построения русской нации и их итогах. 08.07.2020. Режим доступа: https://politconservatism.ru/blogs/o-popytkah-postroeniya-russkoj-natsii-i-ih-itogah

4. Леонтьев К.Н. Полное собрание сочинений и писем в 12 т. Т. 8. Кн. 1. Публицистика 1881–1891 годов. СПб., 2007.

5. Леонтьев К.Н. Восток, Россия и славянство: Философская и политическая публицистика. Духовная проза (1872–1891). М., 1996.

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