HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
So it is October again! October 2011, that is. Two-plus real time months and 16 pages later Russia is playing its 12th turn. This past year was anything but uneventful, starting from very surprising Iranian rebellion against Chinese domination and ending with a great peace treaty that return the World back to peace. Well, there are some local phony wars between Turkey and far away Latin America, which in essence are wars of words not actual troops sailing across the Atlantic. It is very rewarding for Russia to compare the score tables now and exactly one year earlier:
As one can see, Russia has shown remarkable progress, gaining 315 points in one year!

This is more than any other country, and 6 times more than USA! In fact Mr. Putin was very excited to see that for the first time Russia has EXACT tie with America this turn, precisely the same score of 2499 points, digit for digit, what a great symbolism and coincidence, indeed



Our biggest setback of crazy nuking of Vladivostok, one of Putin's most cherished cities, it even has name with the same root as Vladimir Putin's first name. Vladivostok means Ruler of the East while Russian name Vladimir means Ruler of the World... Well, not to disclose any ambitions but Mr. Putin was worthy of his name this year, being electing to UN Secretary General and making his friend President Medvedev completely inconsequential.
October 2011 was marked with the Economic developments, this was also our first event

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Too bad the silly game treats the first turns of the advanced scenario as first turns of the regular BTS game when you start with a Settler and Warrior and don't have to fear the inflation for the next 100+ turns. Should we invest 200 gold to keep current 0% Inflation 25% lower down the long, very long road? Nah, Mr. Putin decided it is not worth it and took the free 10% decrease option, but perhaps couple of real life years later he might regret his desicion
GPS Eclipse.