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The difference is that Bill Gates was already CEO of Microsoft and Bill Clinton was already president when they played golf, while Putin and Rotenberg were friends since they were children. How lucky is it that one of Putin's close childhood friends became a billionaire? I consider it especially lucky since he went to college to be a PE teacher, worked as a judo instructor, then took his knowledge of physical education to open a bank and make billions.

But you're right- the idea that Rotenberg receives some kind of special treatment is absurd.

For the sake of anyone reading this, /u/spokoino just deleted his own link when he realized it said the following about Okasana's father:

>The following letter to the editor by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn appeared in The Ottawa Citizen on April 12, 1997. Hers was a reply to an earlier article titled "No.154922 remembers" written on March 31, 1997 by Steve Petylycky, a Ukrainian nationalist and Auschwitz holocaust survivor who is writing his memoirs "Into Auschwitz for Ukraine." Oksana's father was a Ukrainian nationalist who was also imprisoned in Auschwitz. She is translating her mother's memoirs dealing with Akcija Wisla.

This is exactly the shit I am talking about that is killing /r/russia. Here is a person who was imprisoned by the Nazis for his beliefs in a sovereign Ukraine, and /u/spokoino calls him a Nazi for no reason other than to slander his daughter. You are allowing yourself to be represented by hateful idiots who will say anything, slander anyone and make you look like petty fools to win their little arguements.

It's a fucking shame.

Same like with dislike of Israel and antisemitism. In-practice, there is considerable overlap between the two, and if one strongly disapproves of Israeli policies, he will likely dislike Jews. Sentiments "Israel is an abomination" and "Jews are the best thing ever" can only coexist when people switch on their doublethink.

Russian government is also not the only thing explicitly and commonly attacked. Russian society is attacked. BBC did several videos about life of black people in Russia during the World Cup. They didn't find anything spectacular (despite several attempts), but their intent was pretty clear. Here is another [one], didn't watch it (although Sterligov was invited, presumably to represent the Russian mindset), but BBC's intent is likewise very clear.

Russian history is under attack (basically every film and newspaper article about USSR published in the West).

It's a very strange expectation for Russians not to take it personally, when short of being called "subhuman", everything goes.

At 4:30 you can hear the rally's leaders, shame they missed it. Here's their speech: "Maidan is a festival of death... Maidan is the smile of the American ambassador who, sitting in his penthouse, is happy to see how brother is killing brother... Maidan is the concentration of everything Anti-Russian... Maidan is the embryo of Goebbels, transplanted into humanoid form, dancing in a church"

Also, given recent events: "Purge the fifth column!"

It is an inspired drama of events with much dramatic license applied. The facts are jumbled or made up. The tone and look is deliberately made darker and more depressing than it was and the portrayal of the state is like a comic book villain.

Take everything you watch with a huge pinch of salt.

Do youself a favour and read Midnight in Chernobyl and compare serious research to populatistic TV show writing.

Not to be left out...

>In the UK, the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) is a specialized unit within the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). If it wasn’t for Edward Snowden, we probably still would never have heard of them.

http://yournewswire.com/government-internet-trolls-are-paid-to-use-psychological-influencing-on-you/

Edit: more meat here https://theintercept.com/2015/06/22/controversial-gchq-unit-domestic-law-enforcement-propaganda/

http://www.toysfest.ru/product/115240/

Truth be told, many online stores show it as "out of stock" (not removed), but it's not clear is it because of the alleged ban, or it is really just out of stock. Also, Rospotrebnadzor itself claims that they themselves knew about about "ban" from the news.

What does that have to do with our discussion on WWII losses?

http://www.osnews.com/story/25540/Why_People_Troll_and_How_to_Stop_Them

>Pithy put-downs

> Name-calling and insults

>Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it

>Impugning other's motives

> Emotional rants

> Bullying and harassment

> Completely off-topic posts

>Posting inaccurate "facts"

I think you're just confused about what I'm talking about. In most countries, the most popular social media platform is US-based, like facebook or twitter; in Russia (and Brazil and Japan) the most popular social media sites are domestic. In Canada, you probably use Ebay and Amazon, which are not domestic; in Russia, they have Molotok and Ozon, as well as several other websites. Look at Canada's most popular websites: other than kijiji, they're all US (not that there's anything wrong with that). Meanwhile, Russia's top websites are largely domestic.

Many other countries in the world use US-based websites for their domestic needs: as a final example, people in France shop online using Amazon and Ebay. My point is, aside from the US, UK, Brazil, China, Japan, and maybe Germany, Russia has one of the best developed domestic internet infrastructures, which means that they don't rely on foreign websites to drive commerce inside of their country. If you start talking about international e-commerce from Canada to Russia, you'll run into the same problems of high tariffs, hard to follow laws, theft in the post, bribery and corruption, poor infrastructure outside of Moscow/Spb, etc.

Actually, they were caught near the village of Dzerkalne.

http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.794706&lon=38.261776&z=14&m=b&search=Dzerkalne

If you take the shortest road from the border it's still almost 30km.

This is true. According to Jeffrey Sachs, Russia was screwed by the West and was left alone with a lot of demands and not a lot of help for transition like they did with other countries, ex: Poland.

I recently was going through Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" and chapter on Russia was pretty hard to read. It's truly horrendous and despicable what was actually going on. And I've lived through it, I just didn't understand the politics and implications of it. In a retrospect, Russia has been to hell in the 90's.

Yeah, they are very biased and always desperately look for negative. Just one example. Some time ago our (Russian) youth football (soccer) national team had reached the final FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER (though we lost). So, which title do you think they had chosen? «Russian Youth National Team has lost the final of the European football championship». For these douchebags worse is better.

The link itself: https://meduza.io/news/2015/07/19/yunosheskaya-sbornaya-rossii-proigrala-final-chempionata-evropy-po-futbolu

https://www.quora.com/Was-Churchill-largely-responsible-for-the-Bengal-famine-of-1943

> I consider him to be a combination of Hitler, Assad and Stalin

>Just like Hitler, he built Concentration Camps. Hitler did it in Auschwitz and Churchill did it in South Africa.

>Just like Assad, he gassed civilians. Assad did it in Ghouta whereas Churchill did it in Ireland and Iraq.

>Just like Stalin, he created a Ghulag in Kenya.

>I could go on and on. But Balaji Viswanathan, already tore Churchill apart in Britain needs to stop celebrating Winston Churchill. by Balaji Viswanathan on Ode on a Grecian Urn.

>C) Conclusion

>As an Indian, I am used to people look down upon my country with a mix of pity and condescension. It is difficult for westerners to view the tragedy of the Bengal famine as nothing more than collateral damage. I am well aware of the fact that phrases like "third world", "poverty stricken" and "corruption" come to mind when people think of India. So it is not surprising is it, my dear reader that people think India is insignificant, that we deserved to be "civilized" by colonial empires and that our lives are insignificant. The fact that Winston Churchill is called the "greatest Briton ever" makes my blood boil, but I think it is because of ignorance rather than malice. But why listen to me anyway? I am an Indian, a person of "beastly race with a beastly religion", aren't I.

Nevermind, I found it myself. Another point of interest;

>* Completely off-topic posts

Do you even read the articles that you post? Because you sure seem to conform to almost every single point highlighted on that page.

For the Govt money. I wonder how people seriously called it "private space companies".

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-SpaceX-considered-the-first-privately-funded-space-company-but-United-Launch-Alliance-is-not?share=1

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/06/07/meduza-correspondent-ivan-golunov-arrested-in-moscow

Pretty much this. His colleagues believe it was the funeral industry b̶u̶s̶i̶n̶e̶s̶s̶m̶ thugs with the help of some Moscow authorities. Not government related

> Of course, city administrations are loyal to regime and they simply don't give such confirmations using contrived reasons.

It is an outright lie. The authorities cannot by law refuse to hold a demonstration. The authorities often assign an inconvenient place / time, but in the case of Navalny the situation is different. Navalny is absolutely consciously provoking fights with the police to make himself a PR.

Here is the most disgusting example (I give a link to the opposition liberal source)

https://meduza.io/feature/2017/06/15/nam-govorili-chto-my-vse-pereodetye-byudzhetniki-matom-kryli

In fairness for such things (an attempt to provoke riots with the planned death of children) Navalny should be crushed by a tank. Moreover, it is necessary to press slowly, starting with the feet.

You can say what you want about Sobyanin, but 'Tundra's' really cleaned up the town. [1] [2] A mere half-decade ago I would have avoided the downtown like the plague; some even say that Luzhkov intentionally made the city unappealing to tourists.

I am 19 years old now I was born and raised in Moscow in lovely middle class family. I still live here and have a happy live as student and half-day office worker. My childhood was really fine, it was just like (or even similar) 85Fiero's. Maybe I was a little more badass (troubles happened to me all the time), I fought a lot, blew up toilet by fireworks, climbed on roofs and so on. BTW climbing on roofs is pretty common among Moscow children and youth. Maybe you would ask something particular? Would be happy to answer but don’t know what to describe) As my attitude to Russia I think that my country is great by people and poor by government but I think I could never live abroad. I really love this place, to me it’s so friendly and every time I go abroad I love my arrival as much as departure on vacation. Russia has the most fucked up history in the world among other countries (you better read it if you didn't). I hope I will live in more quiet time)

> Politics is the main reason why they have small pension

Bullshit. The main reason is that almost 40% of our economy is in the shadow. This means that tax income into the budget is almost half of what it should be. All those precious pensions and state-paid workers are paid from those funds. Ever agreed to receive your "grey" paycheck at work when your official wage is one third of what you actually earn? Congratulations, you are now a part of those 40% and you just stole the money from the pensioners.

This is the dumbest thing I've read today. You do know that US pretty much said that they are not going to get involved if another war breaks out in Europe. UK and France were indecisive about making alliance with the Soviet Union until they got steam rolled by the Nazis. Read a book. Let me know if you need recommendations.

Here is a preview for you: The Neutrality Act of 1937. About the same time Japan started their rape campaign in China and US selflessly "strongly condemned" the action from the other side of the pond.^1 While Britain and France were selflessly and "strongly condemning" the Nazis because they thought that the war in Europe will be avoid, in other words - appeasement.^2

>He does more for Russia than you do. That is why he is ignored in the US. You're a nitpicker. That much was clear on your selection of Dugin for a topic here. You had not done your homework.

http://www.osnews.com/story/25540/Why_People_Troll_and_How_to_Stop_Them

>Pithy put-downs

> Name-calling and insults

>Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it

>Impugning other's motives

> Emotional rants

> Bullying and harassment

> Completely off-topic posts

>Posting inaccurate "facts"

C'mon, where's the emotional rant?

Mainstream Russian films are an avalanche of shit. Everything that's wrong with Hollywood, plus no constraint on the part of the directors and often little effort to tell a focused story or make sense.

Luckily, there were plenty of great films in the Soviet era (you heard me), and Russian arthouse cinema is just great.

So here, have a Google spreadsheet of the most noteworthy Soviet films: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-pwrC9JR7ahZmp4M1hfWXJoNWM/edit?usp=sharing The highlighted items are especially well-known. Somewhere I have another spreadsheet with films from the 1990s and 2000s but I can't find it atm.

My personal favorite is Assa, which is about rock music and gang crime just before Perestroika. It takes place in Yalta (Crimea) in winter.

Pretty much all Russians have seen Brother (Brat), which is the definitive film about Petersburg and the 90s.

If you want to impress Russian hipsters, watch Shapito Show.

>From my understanding, most if not all of those countries were destabilized already. but we never bombed a peaceful country.

Iraq 2003

As for destabilisation

Cuba 2011 is one example

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/04/usaid-latin-americans-cuba-rebellion-hiv-workshops

Here is a comparison of prevalence of homophobic murders between Russia and US. Just because your propaganda media only reports homophobic incidents in Russia, doesn't mean they don't take place elsewhere.

[Table 7]

Reka Fontanka in Saint Petersburg. You can check based on the design of the wrought-iron decorations of the bridge. They're all different in different districts of the city and along different canals. I took a boat tour of canals and they spoke about this at length.

Edit: Yep, it's Anichkov Most.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/17749471/International-Film-Festival-KINOFORUM

"A superpower is a cold war term. When people today say that Russia aspires to have this status, I interpret it in the following way: they want to undermine trust in Russia, to portray Russia as frightening, and create some kind of image of an enemy. … Russia is in favor of a multipolar world, a democratic world order, strengthening the system of international law, and for developing a legal system in which any small country, even a very small country, can feel itself secure, as if behind a stone wall. … Russia is ready to become part of this multipolar world and guarantee that the international community observes these rules. And not as a superpower with special rights, but rather as an equal among equals." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

France still don't like England. But they're under the same umbrella now. The nature of any defensive military alliance is destruction, the force always trying to find the way to out. The destructive nature of NATO military alliance could be described well by 24 past years of continuous invasions and bombing campaigns.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

Ever heard about it? https://wikileaks.org/cia-hvt-counterinsurgency/press-release.html

> My wife and I are thinking of taking the trans-Siberian Railway one year.

Is extremely boring stuff which is not worth it in the least. It's a trade + military route, has always been that and is nowadays, with the only purpose to deliver people and stuf from the point A to point B. It's not a tourist way, the only thing you will see on the many days way: the identical, gloomy forests and the dust of the freight trains around. I'd advise you to visit North West of Siberia, my home village in particular, but it's too similar too Sweden. If you want to enjoy the narute of Siberia, you better find out certain destination and just go directly to there by a plane (to the nearest city at least) to stay, say some campus near Baikal Lake, a hunter/fishing-houses across Siberia, there are plenty of them, Altay mountains, etc.. Something certain.

I wonder what the weird legend made people be so interested in Transib as a tourist route.

> avoid in Siberia?

Nothing special, it's aboslutely identical to other parts of Russia.

Пейсбук ин а натшелл.

В Педивикии, кстати, аналогично. Поэтому слушать истерики от тех же википидоров про цензуру, когда, внезапно, банить начинают уже их самих, всегда смешно и забавно. "Анастозащо" в чистом виде.

>Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin's long-time press secretary, has rented the most expensive sailing yacht in the world during his honeymoon in Italy, according to anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny, who credits a "reliable source" with confirming this information. Peskov has denied the claim, saying he is spending his vacation in Sicily, not Sardinia, as Navalny states.

>Navalny's anti-corruption group says Peskov and his new bride rented the 80-meter (260-foot) "Maltese Falcon" yacht, which is available for roughly 385,000 euros ($426,000) per week.

>Navalny and his team say they confirmed the information from their source by accessing public tracking records available for ships, which allowed them to locate the Maltese Falcon during the time of Peskov's honeymoon. Navalny's team then tracked other ships in the vicinity of the yacht and compared them to photos posted on Instagram by Peskov's close friend Oleg Mitvol. According to this analysis, Mitvol's photographs could only have been taken from abroad the Maltese Falcon, where he was allegedly present for Peskov's honeymoon celebrations.

>As evidence that Peskov was also present on the yacht, Navalny's team also offers a photograph posted on Instagram by Sasha Navka, Peskov's new step-daughter. In the photo, Sasha is visible aboard a ship wearing a robe that bears the inscription "Maltese Falcon." Based on the geotags embedded on her other photos, it seems that she recorded these images somewhere in Sardinia, Italy.

Use this to figure out what would be a good salary, you will need to do some basic math.

Everything else you asked is easily answered through utilization of the search function in this subreddit and google.

Good luck.

> https://www.youtube.com/user/Lomak1581/videos i watch this channel

These videos are selective in nature, it is pointless to determine the composition of the population on these videos. See photos of school graduation balls in different regions of Russia (each school puts in net such photos, for example )

That wikileaks cable on the eastern partnership is very telling

> Foreign Minister Sikorski developed the Eastern Partnership with Swedish FM Bildt

. > The Eastern Partnership -- a proposal championed by Poland and Sweden to deepen EU relations with Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Belarus, Armenia, and Azerbaijan -- embraces the central goals of Poland's increasingly active regional policy:

> -- Counter Russia's influence in Eastern Europe (although Russia is officially welcome to take part in the Partnership);

.

> The Eastern Partnership and other Polish policies in the region aim to counter a resurgent Russia

"Яркий человек" and "brilliant man" are not the same thing even though "яркий" means "brilliant".

When you say "brilliant man", the definition of brilliant is "having or showing great intelligence, talent, quality, etc."

When you say "яркий человек", the definition of яркий is "очень заметный, неординарный, выдающийся, производящий сильное впечатление"

Такое вот "sensitive military knowledge" не позволяло мне, например, выезжать за границу на протяжении 5(вроде) лет после того, как я, рядовой стройбата, рыл траншеи на ракетных точках саратовской области(на одной из этих вот). И это был конец 90х, не советское время. В совке же стать невыездным можно было за красивые глаза или за то, что начальству не глянулся, или из-за того, что вот так вот и все тут.

It's more. You are a chukcha, I am from Yamal. These two, that earlier were one (Yamalo-Nenetsky), give up to 50-80% of Russia's oil. That's how tiny Siberian villages "are dying", just like Norway is: https://vk.com/albums-29017

When you talk about "official numbers" in Russia, you don't forget that it's ca. 1/3, as 1/3 goes "grey", and 1/3 goes purely criminal. At the very least :D

> Хорошо, где я могу получить своё негосударственное финансирование от госдепа

Увы, нигде; ведь вы вероятно упустили свой шанс поскакать на Майдане или потоптаться на Болотной, но суть лишь жертва атрофированной способности мыслить, выдавая лишь желаемое за действительное... и\или тех искалеченных "образовательных центров" и их материалов, чьи хозяева весьма успешно про-спонсировались в американских структурах,

> Кто, кроме вас, полоумного, обвиняет в этом Америку? Примерно 90% населения. Кремлёвские пропагандоны

Хоть один единственный конкретный пример? Я понял. И, также советую вам изучить конкретику цифр экономических потерь от "раздачи печенек на Майдане" и всего того безумия, которое происходит на Украине, равно как и "экономических санкций Европы с её выкрученными руками", кукарекающих либералов (всё существование которых сквозь 90-ые вплоть до наших дней при поддержки и одобрении США серьезнейшим образом подкосило РФ) и прочего.

Ну, и, да, перестать ныть, жаловаться (ведь никто, очевидно, кроме вас этого не делает вовсе) и обвинять Америку в тех самых "плохих дорогах" частицу которых вы могли бы наблюдать например здесь.

Like 0. But some ideas he preaches are not made by him and shared by others, more-or-less influential people, media sources, etc. ~ 2-9% know who he is [among people interested in politics and news, maybe up to 25%-50% know who he is].

Heh, he got 20k+ "subscribers" and 10k "friends" on VK; but probably failed to verify the page :D

I found a video that shows a little bit of dorms. Also you can search for Общежитие ННГУ on Google images for pics, or if you have a vk account (and you should tbh) you can ask about dorms in this thread https://vk.com/topic-11163281_26808559?offset=0. In general dorms in Russia leave much to be desired, in my Uni dorms there were 4-6 people living in each room so I'd say ННГУ isn't that bad.

• Pithy put-downs
• Name-calling and insults
• Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it
• Impugning other's motives
• Emotional rants
• Bullying and harassment
• Completely off-topic posts
• Posting inaccurate "facts

Why People Troll and How to Stop Them

Do you see how you match the different bullet points and how you're projecting?

Translated and cross-posted

You can bypass youtube regional blocks with [tor browser]. Once you unpack it, open <installation directory>/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc in notepad, and add the following line:

> ExitNodes {ru}

Are you in Moscow right now?

Here's a proposal for you: the day after tomorrow there is an opposition meeting in Moscow- post on Vkontakte that you support Solidarnost and attend the meeting with a poster that says "Партия жуликов и воров"- ask to leave work early on Friday so you can prepare. Then, make a 1 ruble donation to TV Rain which requires you to give them your full name and address, which they disclose to the government. Don't let anyone know you're doing this as an experiment for one week.

Someone who supports Solidarnost shouldn't be afraid to let their friends, employers, and the government know who they support, right?

In my part of Russia, Uber and Gett [1] are reliable. I'd never heard of Gett before I came to Russia, but it's actually better than Uber because it has more drivers. I've never had a single problem with either one and have taken them lots of times. For sure they will both work in Moscow and St. Pete... not sure in those other two cities. But they are fine in my Siberia city of about 1M people.

Hailing taxis on the street without speaking Russian is just a recipe to get quoted absurd prices or have the driver otherwise try to take advantage of you.

If you stay in a city more than seven business days you must register your visa. (Registration is a huge pain in the ass unless your hotel does it for you, but they'll only register you for the time you are there.) If you travel so much that you don't need registration, then save your plane/bus/train tickets so you can prove you weren't anywhere more than seven days.

SIM cards with data are dirt cheap, far cheaper than the USA. You can easily get one at a shop but you will need to show your passport.

Don't drink the samogon. (Russian moonshine)

If you have dark skin you may get stopped by the police for a document check. I had a guest here from Thailand, and he got stopped twice on/near public transit in a four-day stay. But I've never been stopped once in four years.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gettaxi.android

What's the vacancy there nowadays? Last I head, demand was so low, that a $30/night hostel is operating from one of the buildings

No, of course you're lying again, so I'll provide citations so that you can't bullshit your way through this. The propaganda that you're citing is a now-deleted tweet from @dnrpress, where they took a picture of an SA-11 and claimed they took it from A1402: http://mashable.com/2014/07/17/malaysia-mh17-ukraine-what-shot-down/

It was never independently verified that A1402 even had Buk system present at the garrison, and it doesn't make a lot of sense that it had come from there rather than directly from Russia for a number of reasons, including: 1) It was found by the Associated Press in a town close to the border with Russia; 2) It's unlikely that the Separatists would have been able to operate it successfully without Russian assistance; and 3) a Russian plane destroyed a Ukrainian plane yesterday with an air-to-air missile, which strongly suggests that not only is Russia providing weapons to the Separatists, but they're presently engaging in acts of war against the Ukraine. AP source: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/official-malaysian-plane-shot-down-over-ukraine

Does the card of responses that the Russian government provides you have an answer for any of this? I can't fathom how sociopathic bastards like you can sleep at night.

Hi. I've started a google document: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=13MG_PaFtVwewkBWDC2x15A4tR2vUJt3KXHEoS6wvlLo

Please check. Is that format of transcription ok for you? Or maybe I should add character names?

Another case of Asian countries trying to sell merchandise with imagery they do not understand. That or it's another example of "fascism" being the hip style in Asia.

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3384073/Pimsleur_Russian_I__II_and_III_--_90_lessons_--_lower_bit-rate_m

Teaches conversational Russian.

North-West Siberia. I advise it to everyone, my home-village in particular, but it's too similar to Sweden... There are really unique places, like say Kamchatka - those weird mountains and incredible volcanos... but it's possible to travel to there only by a helicopter, and to move there around by a helicopter, it all costs a lot, and nothing except for those gaisers and volcanos to see there... nature is incredible, but it costs a lot and the place is "specific". Sochi -in the south, better than Alpes + the subtropical sea in the summer... what else, it depends.

>As for how "good" Russians are treated in Latvia, well, 4 days ago

yeah, I read that article. Ruposters.ru is not really recognised as a objective news site, I bet its like RussiaToday, owned by some close friend of the Russian government and only tells stuff that mystically asides with the offical Russian state opinion. Which is ''Baltics bad, they Nazi, must demonize the Baltics and show people why they bad''. Give me some independent news site that is not owned by someone close to the Russian govement who said something simular.

The opposition news sites like Medusa or Kasparov has not reported such a incident, nor has any Latvian or any European news agency. So how do I know its not fake like the story RussiaToday fabricated about that German girl being raped by the immigrants a while back, which German Police later proven completely false??

You really do need to get your Russian narratives totally understood.

Poroshenko: Appointed by Satan? By Mikhail Pasichnyk

Yep. Meduza reports only "20 причин курить марихуану" is blocked.

There is a taboo though...

>it is simply not the case that Charlie Hebdo “were equal opportunity offenders.” Like Bill Maher, Sam Harris and other anti-Islam obsessives, mocking Judaism, Jews and/or Israel is something they will rarely (if ever) do. If forced, they can point to rare and isolated cases where they uttered some criticism of Judaism or Jews, but the vast bulk of their attacks are reserved for Islam and Muslims, not Judaism and Jews.

here you go... so it appears they are just throwing shit around, but in fact they don't dare throw it in a certain direction.

Try using

https://www.google.com/flights/

Depending on the dates you choose, it might be cheaper to fly to Moscow and take a train to St. Petersburg. The high speed train (Sapsan) costs about $45 one way, if you want to take a cheaper/slower train, it'll run you about $25 one way.

If you want to fly on the cheap, go in May, before the summer time airline prices kick in, it'll save you a couple hundred bucks on the plane tickets.

Do you remember posting this?

• Pithy put-downs
• Name-calling and insults
• Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it
• Impugning other's motives
• Emotional rants
• Bullying and harassment
• Completely off-topic posts
• Posting inaccurate "facts

Why People Troll and How to Stop Them

Do you see how you match the different bullet points and how you're projecting?

On that note, 101.ru has a pretty wide spread of stations. The site's pretty sketchy, but I tend to use the program RadioSure to listen so I don't have to deal with it. It lets you search its huge streaming station database so it's a good program for finding other Russian streams, too!

I hope you find some nice people on this forum, but if you don't, you can register here to find Russian Skype buddies: http://www.italki.com/dashboard

And this is instant: http://www.sharedtalk.com

Russians, you can find English speakers here too.

I have to be careful with Italki because I get really motivated and chat with a bunch of people, and then I get busy and ignore their messages for too long.

>I know it's weird, but in open societies people can disagree.

Did you really need to put that here?

Yes it is backdown

Your top general chief of Staff(that probably has more experience) said that Russia was the greatest threat,

4 days after you came out and said publicly that it is not true.

In public relations it is call "distancing"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distancing_language

It is backdown

Lets look in a Thesarus the synonym of the word " Back Down"

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/back+down

You can find that one of the synonyms is "withdraw from agreement or statement"

> Read Wikileaks - Cablegate. Poroshenko is called US's "insider" in Ukraine.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06KIEV1706_a.html

He is called an Our Ukraine insider, referring to the political party Our Ukraine (OU), it does not say that he is the US' own insider.

What cable are you referring to about him being called an asshole or similiar?

I didn't find a link to the cable in the article(Truth be told I just skimmed it), only the dates of the cables. There is another interesting cable here

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06KIEV1706_a.html

Its also from 2006, but as you can see from the very beginning they call him

>Our Ukraine (OU) insider

P.S. You should fire your team. They seem to be bunch of retards, no offense.

P.P.S.

Join GRU

А с каких пор выполнение законов и соблюдение прав человека эксклюзивная ценность запада? Сочувствую вам и вашей Канаде. Я давно заметил, что разные люди, живущие и бывающие в каких-либо странах, могут интерпретировать обстановку в одной и той же стране по-разному и привезти оттуда совершенно противоположные мнения. Так что, если бы у меня было время, я бы нашёл какие-нибудь более реальные показатели/критерии насчёт состояния прав человека в Канаде, чем этот пост. Я бы поискал, как минимум, какие законы и права в какой сфере действуют и как они реально используются/реализованы. У Ведомостей был пример: http://telegra.ph/Vedomosti---Pochemu-zashchita-prav-mertva-12-01 Но самое смешное – опять же, я ничего не знаю конкретно о Канаде. И я не очень понимаю, к чему вообще пример с Канадой. Давай поговорим про Сербию. Давай поговорим про Польшу. Какое это имеет отношение к тому, что говорю я о России?

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no joke: When Numbers Are Not Enough: The Strategic Use of Violence in Ukraine’s 2014 Revolution

Author of the work's Twitter account

Zhuchkovsky obituary of Zakharchenko: https://vk.com/wall151630709_95182

> Есть люди, смерть которых оставляет равнодушным. Есть люди, гибель которых причиняет душевную боль (так было, когда погиб Моторола). Есть люди, которые при жизни не вызывали большого восхищения, но искренно жаль, когда они уходят. > Мне искренно жаль, что Александр Захарченко погиб. Я считал его плохим политиком, но не плохим человеком. > Были ополченцы и командиры с гораздо большими заслугами, чем у Захарченко, но и последний не отсиживался в тылу и рисковал жизнью ради русского Донбасса. > Захарченко вынесла на вершину власти в ДНР революционная волна. И она же его похоронила. Как и и многих других лидеров восставшего Донбасса. > И чтобы ни говорил и ни делал Захарченко, за что его критиковали и осуждали, он никогда не ставил под сомнение главную цель - возвращение Донбасса в Россию.

Weird cause we're not at war yet ( as Bulgaria is part of NATO and I am told all NATO countries are pawns, right of first refusal for the EU as per the Berlin agreement, bolderdash... ) this happened in 2014:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-russia-ship-idUSBREA1Q21120140227

Got any other easy to shut down ideas?

An article from 2015:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/20/russia-intelligence-ship-havana-cuba-us-diplomatic-talks

>US officials in Washington played down the presence of the Russian vessel, saying it was perfectly legal and not at all out of the ordinary. “It’s not unprecedented. It’s not unusual. It’s not alarming,” a defense official told AFP.

I don't think so. The only Gordins I know personally are Jewish. Here is an article on its origin (in Russian), it says that's it's an old Ashkenazi 'toponymic' surname. And here's an American dictionary entry, stating that it's Russian-Jewish.

> I'm not agree with you regarding "the worst part of Russian literature" and I wouldn't be so categorical about Tolstoy's books. If you don'n like them, it doesn't mean they are disgusting.

I wrote - "for me". Evaluation of art is always a subjective thing. Of course there were people who admired the books by Leo Tolstoy. But such people are few. And for the rest of mankind Russian culture in the form of books written by Leo Tolstoy - it's something boring, dull and very pretentious. There are other books, quite interesting for ordinary people, but they are is completely unknown outside of Russia.

Here's an example:

for the great Hayao Miyazaki, Russian culture does not exist. There are beautiful Russian books for children, but Miyazaki doesn't know about them. Everything is overshadowed by odious Leo Tolstoy (maybe he was a great writer, but he's definitely not a children's writer).

I'll try to update. Right now there are some good news and some bad news. One of good news is that Ministry of Health will take care of physical and psychic health of the girl. Another good one is that Children Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation Pavel Astakhov[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Astakhov] takes a closer look on the situation.

Bad news is that family of the girl and mother (there is only word about grandmother - it's her house where they stayed) turns mother and daughter out of the house because of the "disgrace girl caused" - Google translated article - http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fug.rian.ru%2Fincidents%2F20110708%2F82154820.html

Look at your scans, it includes F60-F69. Then look at F64 in any credible source. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=f64+diagnosis should be enough. F65 should be near enough.

//right now I'm working on software for psychiatric clinic so I know like half of ICD-10 related to F**.

OP probably thought LGBT means "gays" so we got this title.

Дебютный альбом сегодня вышел:

vk
itunes

Фабрика щипковых музыкальных инструментов имени А.В. Луначарского - Manufacture of (щипковых?) musical instruments of Lunacharski. Probably it was made in Soviet Union - this manufacture vanished soon after USSR fall as far as I know.

EDIT: correction - manufacture re-opened around 2003-2004th.

• Pithy put-downs
• Name-calling and insults
• Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it
• Impugning other's motives
• Emotional rants
• Bullying and harassment
• Completely off-topic posts
• Posting inaccurate "facts

Why People Troll and How to Stop Them

• Pithy put-downs
• Name-calling and insults
• Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it
• Impugning other's motives
• Emotional rants
• Bullying and harassment
• Completely off-topic posts
• Posting inaccurate "facts

Why People Troll and How to Stop Them

He originally posted this a while back and then has stopped referring to it since most everyone has called him out for matching it to the dot.

http://www.osnews.com/story/25540/Why_People_Troll_and_How_to_Stop_Them

> Pithy put-downs

> Name-calling and insults

>Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it

>Impugning other's motives

> Emotional rants

> Bullying and harassment

> Completely off-topic posts

>Posting inaccurate "facts"

Now can we get back on topic?

>What went wrong? What contingency should they have planned for?

I think you need to read this again, hombre.

http://www.osnews.com/story/25540/Why_People_Troll_and_How_to_Stop_Them

And the btw, It took me a minute and both hands, but I did manage to find my ass :)

Now can you stop talking out of yours? Seriously, what the fuck does this even mean? This is word soup, not intelligent thoughts.

>Can you find your ass with 2 hands because you sure don't know how to deal intelligently in discussion with the little legalities like Minsk 2.0/ the UNSC Resolution intended to deal with it, IMF and debt, constitutional change, disarmament, EU-Ukraine-Russia documented trade agreements, Ukraine elections, natural gas, coal, jobs and food.

Well, I'm not getting too inspired by 'rap' in general, and then 'russian rap' is a bad domestified copy of this imported shit. Nothing authentic, nothing sincere, nothing true to itself. Bad texts, no melody, boring commercial videos which all overagressively look the same.

But, as I said, this is more like a generalization, actually I still love a few rare pieces of Russian Rap, like this or that.

москва златоглавая, also known as конфетки-бараночки

...and I'm not really sure if it's old enough, it doesn't really sound so, more like 'новодел'

There is hardly something relevant can be found in English. English sourses usually tend to repeat the lies and myths, instead of letting their audience know the true facts.

Try Yandex for translation, it' does quite well. Here is a piece of text from the sources I linked to, translated by Yandex and just some obvious syntactic mistakes corrected a bit by me:

>Biographers do not give a clear answer to the question of the extent of the "moral decline" by Tchaikovsky. Supporters of this view refer to the correspondence of the composer and his brother Modest. In fact, some passages of their epistolary communication seems to leave no doubt what passions throughout life struggled Tchaikovsky.

>However, the defender of the good name of Tchaikovsky from the well-deserved domestic psychiatry is the President of the Moscow psychotherapeutic Academy Michael [Byanov]. In his opinion, [there] is the wrong interpretation of some of [these] records, the cultural characteristics of the era and a woman's revenge... Buyanov [makes it clear] that Tchaikovsky wasn't a homosexual.

>The source of the rumors about Tchaikovsky's perverted orientation [comes from a woman] - miss Purgold. [This lady took men] by storm, specialized in musicians. As a student of Tchaikovsky, she in a letter to the composer outlined the requirement to marry [her], promising otherwise to commit suicide.

>Later the sister of Miss Purgold stuck to Mussorgsky [as well], even for some time settled as a kept woman from Rimsky-Korsakov. In all likelihood, the [refusal] byTchaikovsky [to marry them] insulted sisters to the core, and it [is] considered by all of Tchaikovsky's biographers, Miss Purgold was the main source of rumors about the homosexuality of the composer.

Duolingo is free, try that. It's very similar to Rosetta Stone, which is super-expensive, so skip that one. I'd also suggest taking a look at the New Penguin Russian Course, Michel Thomas Russian, Pimsleur, Assimil, Colloquial and Teach Yourself courses.

Use flashcards to learn words. Once you get some basics into you, I'd suggest starting listening to podcasts for learners, as well. Use /r/russian and /r/languagelearning for advice and guidance.

If you're having trouble viewing the article because of the paywall, here's a link to an open source blocker I wrote for Chrome. It currently works for NYT, Independent, Telegraph, and Wash. Post.

> Yes but policy was nearly completely reversed under Alexander III.

This is the failure of Alexander II.

1) He was helpless in front of the revolutionaries fanatics (who eventually killed him). Alexander should in this issue learns from Peter the Great (and Ivan the terrible). Weakness is the worst Vice for a ruler.

2) He left the throne to the incompetent heir

This is a story of how being pretty can get you off with a gentle conversation for a crime you might have been executed for.

In the conversation the girl doesn't even try to deny the fact of committing an espionage action, her affiliation with Pravy Sektor and people from the opposing battalions. Also, in the conversation it is mentioned that the buildings, she was sent to take photos of, later got bombed and some people got killed. The VK profile of this girl is full of anti-Novorossiyan posts and contains photos of her proving her affiliation with Pravy Sektor.

It would be very interesting to know what happens to her next.

Yeah. https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-D2TR7M7L/ That's for the first 100 responses. There were apparently 250+. But to see the other, I have to upgrade to a $26/month plan, which I am hesitating to do.

Leave the vodka out of it. It's such a negative stereotype that doesn't hold up to reality, at least in the two years I've lived in St. Petersburg. I might suggest hot tea instead. Electric tea kettles are very common. The tea itself can still be in packets. Maybe have several boxes of different varieties -- black, green, chamomile.

Electrical outlets will be a big giveaway one way or the other. Even if you retrofit your kitchen to make them European/Russian style, Americans will immediately know it's not in the US and spoil the surprise. You'll have to do some tricky camera work (short focus length, framing) to avoid them.

Ah, hope to see some answers for this, I'm in the US and was just about to buy a FireTV hoping to stream Russian-language TV. I see an Amazon app "Russian TV Channels" but know nothing about it.

A few years ago in the US I streamed Первый Канал using Russian proxies. Once I started the stream I could disable the proxy and it worked flawlessly for at least a couple hours. Would like a better solution, too

*Update: I found this torrent-tv.ru site, has excellent HD streams of many Russian channels. Seems there's something for Kodi with this too, but haven't tried it. Seems to be free, just registration. TVTeka also looks like a good solution too, but not free.

I use UniversalCopy. After copying from the application, the text is automatically translated by GoogleTranslate. There is an option to translate from the clipboard.

I've leafed through a few historical books before to find a single volume overview that I felt I could recommend in threads like these and I liked Russia: The Once and Future Empire From Pre-History to Putin by Philip Longworth. It balances sympathy and empathy with honest assessment.

My baby girl's birth put an end to most of gaming. On mobile/pads the only game i have atm is World Conqueror 3, which is Risk like strategy turn based game. It has to be turn based games as i might be called to nappy changing duties any second!

More traditional cuisine is in Moo-Moo. If you want to know what Soviet fast food was like, visit cheburek cafe "Дружба".

>is there English translations of station names

Yes there are English transliterations, don't worry.

This is not a definition, sorry.

> F65.5 Sadomasochism A preference for sexual activity which involves the infliction of pain or humiliation, or bondage. If the subject prefers to be the recipient of such stimulation this is called masochism; if the provider, sadism. Often an individual obtains sexual excitement from both sadistic and masochistic activities.

http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2015/en#/F65.5

Now let's say English language would be enough to be checked by the Oxford dictionary.

> 1. Occurring, found, or done often; prevalent

> 1.3 Ordinary; of ordinary qualities; without special rank or position:

> 1.4 (Of a quality) of a sort or level to be generally expected:

> 1.5 Of the most familiar type:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/common — that's the definition.

Well, you got the idea. In reality it means more than 50%. In your link it says the same.

> common (more than 50%), or typical (more than 84.1% of the sample).

Now, I don't know where you are from mate, but in Russia it is pretty much uncommon that 1 out of 2 people is a masochist or a sadist.

The Guardian you are describing ceased to exist in 2013

https://theintercept.com/2015/08/26/way-gchq-obliterated-guardians-laptops-revealed-intended/

Few journos with integrity started this site

https://off-guardian.org

It may be Lanckoruń (alternatively written as Laskorun'), a town in the Podolian governorate, near the border with Austrian Galicia, which up to WW2 had a predominantly Jewish population. In 1946, it was renamed to Zarechanka (Zarichanka in Ukrainian pronunciation; see on OSM).

http://www.britannica.com/event/German-Soviet-Nonaggression-Pact

That's the name of the agreements that Germany was making with other countries. Baltic 'states' were bought from Sweden after result of Russian-Sweden war. It belonged to Russia empire. After foreign-influenced revolution and destruction of the country, Lenin started to reassembled the state back. The country wasn't really stabilized from the civil war until mid-30s. It took considerable effort, when country was strong enough, it reclaimed what was theirs. The fact that western propaganda chooses to echo the opinion of nationalists who wanted to separate and be more aligned with Poland or other european states at the time is not a fact of occupation.

Please research the trade-off with Finland better, this is just embarrassing.

Congratulations! You successfully plagiarized this article almost word for word.

> As we can see from my scatter diagram [...]

Not yours, Oleh Kombaiev's. Oleh Kombaiev, the author whose article I linked above and whose words you stole to make it seem as if you had written them yourself.

What is worse than you stealing his words is that you do not even understand the article you plagiarized. The stolen article has absolutely nothing to do with any of the points you are trying to make. Points that boggle the mind by how scattered, disconnected, and irrelevant they are to the issue at hand.

By the way, from the plagiarized article's conclusion:

> December will be a very difficult month for ruble. Anyway, I see no strong prerequisites for its strengthening. At the same time, the probability of USD/RUB reaching the 70 rubles' level, on the basis of the foregoing, is quite high.

"Reaching the 70" is kind of an odd conclusion, since this piece was published yesterday and the Dollar/Rubble is practically standing at 70.

"Without American production the United Nations [Allied Powers] would never have won the war" -Joseph Stalin, 1943, Tehran Conference

You're dramatically downplaying the aid the US gave Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#US_deliveries_to_the_USSR

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Tradition, I guess.

If you look up synonyms for труд, you'll see работа at the top:

https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4#%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%8B

Pretty similar for labor and work:

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/labor

> Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal … A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all … I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where … Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off.