Russo-Chinese joint military exercice

In the image below ( BBC's In pictures: Russia-China war games ), a building is stormed by elite forces, a tank and apparently a guy on a stick. The name of the building in Russian is 'School'...

This shows us that the Russian methods of dealing with school terrorism haven't changed a bit since the Beslan massacre... Or maybe they were re-enacting for the Chinese their brilliant strategy.



On a similar note, it seams that Putin is starting to revamp his image in the eve of 2008 re-election. And what better way for that than to play an endemic and primitive nationalist card.