>>OK I will bite. Where is your source the Russia will get into the picture soon?
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>The Bible. The same place that predicted to the day when Jesus would enter Jerusalem riding on a donkey and the same one that predicted that Israel would indeed be formed again as a nation.

And where in the Bible it says anything about the Russians getting into the picture soon?

>predicted to the day when Jesus would enter Jerusalem?

Is there any independent confirmation of that as a fact? Or could it be that whomever wrote it was:

a) not there (so it's hearsay)
b) not even alive at the time (hearsay again)
c) revisionist history
d) fairy tale
e) factually correct

Is there anything that can point to one answer as better than any of the other ones?

Just note that the apocryphal story is mentioned in Mark 11. Now, it has been debated by scholars and historians on who was Mark. To date there is no real concensus nor certainty that he even existed or it was some local scholar that wrote these. Did Mark (or the writer) ever met Jesus?

R. Funk, B. Scott and J. Butts write in "The Parables of Jesus" (Polebridge Press - 1988):

"The names attached to the gospels, including those included in the New testament, are traditional, and in most cases do not provide any real information about authorship or origin. When the gospels emerge as written documents in history - when the first copies are made and circulated - author and place of origin have already been lost. The original composition of these gospels took place between 50 C.E. and the beginning of the third century C.E"

So, the writer(s) lived at least 50 years after Jesus' death. Did they ever meet him? Were they there when Jesus got upset at a fig tree? Doubt it.