Type-94 has posted his review on the Soviet arc
http://type94.wordpress.com/2012/10/...eclipse-11-14/
What I got from this is that the anime actually did flesh out things that were left hanging in the novels, such as the parts with Yui and the Railgun, and the last moments of the Zhar Battalion (Mother Russia ;_; The Boss... The list of Patriots goes on...) which I was wrong in blaming the anime for giving it such a tragically blunt end, since in the novels its even blunter...