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A facebook friend showed me something today that he's not happy about. He enjoys making flags and made this one.  He found a NovoRossyia news website with the curious url syria-chat-city-sy.info and noticed something.  Nobody asked, no one gave him credit. He said seeing it there makes him feel very awkward.
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Yeah, either Аляскинская Республика or Республика Аляска.
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kalstrams posted:Yeah, either Аляскинская Республика or Республика Аляска. Heh, thinking some more, if it's going to use THAT script (not that the font does it justice, the A is horrible) it probably needs to use a Ѧ instead of the modern Я.
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OddObserver posted:That's not how one spells Alaska in Russian, BTW. No one tell the news site though, that just makes it funnier.
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 Putin orders troop withdrawal from the Russian/Ukrainian border. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014..._source=twitter But as of one hour ago, there is still fighting going on at the Donetsk airport. https://twitter.com/rConflictNews/status/521262392861548544 Luhansk residential area was shelled. Video date is October 12, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLa5cxoNq8c The Sochi Grand Prix is today. In this picture we have Victor Medvedchuk sitting with Putin during the race. Medvedchuk was the Ukrainian politician Putin hand-picked to replace Yanukovych if Ukrainian presidential elections had been held next year. He's one level above and behind the man with the white hair and sunglasses. 
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:d the man with the white hair and sunglasses. If you're talking about the guy that sits on Putin's left, his name is Satan.
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3peat posted:If you're talking about the guy that sits on Putin's left, his name is Satan. Bernie Ecclestone: History's Greatest Monster.
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3peat posted:If you're talking about the guy that sits on Putin's left, his name is Satan. Figures. Also, bloated Steven Seagal on the top row over on the right hand side. ThirdPartyView posted:Bernie Ecclestone: History's Greatest Monster. Bernie Ecclestone demands 'total silence' for Russian national anthem in front of President Vladimir Putin at Grand Prix http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...imir-putin.html HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Figures. Also, bloated Steven Seagal on the top row over on the right hand side. Business must be booming for these guys. Except for Seagal who was recently dropped by the government owned Kalashnikov brand that was not due to sanctions against the company. That guy has gained a lot of weight in what seems to only be the last year.
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eigenstate posted:The clip is actually from Vesti Nedeli (News of the week), Kiselev's program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiPYWmm-wjs It's the preview for an upcoming film called "MH-17: Interrupted flight" by Arkady Mamontov to be aired Oct 11 at 6:55pm, so set your DVRs. I'd be interested if this was actually broadcast. In the last couple of days it seems the official Russian line is moving towards it being a Buk missile that did it (fired by Ukraine, naturally), so I'm wondering if it went out.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:The Sochi Grand Prix is today. In this picture we have Victor Medvedchuk sitting with Putin during the race. Medvedchuk was the Ukrainian politician Putin hand-picked to replace Yanukovych if Ukrainian presidential elections had been held next year. He's one level above and behind the man with the white hair and sunglasses. That's Steven Segal in the top right, isn't it? Looks kind of upset he doesn't get to hang out with Putin.
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Mustang posted:That's Steven Segal in the top right, isn't it? Looks kind of upset he doesn't get to hang out with Putin. Wouldn't you be pissed as well if you made Anderson Silva into a UFC legend...? 
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Brown Moses posted:I'd be interested if this was actually broadcast. In the last couple of days it seems the official Russian line is moving towards it being a Buk missile that did it (fired by Ukraine, naturally), so I'm wondering if it went out. A Ukrainian controlled Buk that somehow the Ukrainian army managed to get into Russian controlled territory. Interesting theory. Fans fighting police at yesterday's Romania-Hungary football match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhPuLBvk0OY
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The new Luhansk governor, Hennadiy Moskal, got a hilarious t-shirt:  (It says "Main Moskal of Ukraine")
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Are you talking about the guy 3 seats to the left of Steven Seagal?
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3peat posted:If you're talking about the guy that sits on Putin's left, his name is Satan. The hell is an eternal circuit of F1, Olympics and World Cup set on hold because the only contractors for stadiums are Russians and they have already paid their bribes for 10 000 years in advance
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Mustang posted:That's Steven Segal in the top right, isn't it? Looks kind of upset he doesn't get to hang out with Putin. At least he got to come, poor Gérard Depardieu must be crying into his pillow.
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In before prevention of genocide of Russians in Transnistria.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29586627 The Russian troops deployed on the Ukrainian border have been ordered to return to base; no 3rd party confirmation as of yet. Any chance we'll get a big "Mission Accomplished" billboard and a speech from the man himself?
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Brown Moses posted:I'd be interested if this was actually broadcast. In the last couple of days it seems the official Russian line is moving towards it being a Buk missile that did it (fired by Ukraine, naturally), so I'm wondering if it went out. Yes, it was broadcast. It was even put online within hours of the broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9axsxuE_CrE. The problem, though, was that it was really boring to watch. There was no Obama at the controls of the Su-25. Or I'm just getting tired of this topic after so many months. But I am/was a long-time fan of https://www.agonybooth.com (back when they were funny 10 years ago) and this film fits right in there, so I feel obliged to write a mini-review. The film begins with Mamontov waddling toward the camera, getting right to the point: was this tragedy an accident or was it cynical murder? But after speaking one sentence he stops, leave it up to the narrator to list the three main versions of events among all the others: shot down by jet, downed by SAM missile, destroyed by on-board explosion. Wow, only 1 minute into the film and we're diving head first into the first version: shot down by Su-25! Therefore, logically, the next segment is about... Muhd Firdaus Abdul Rahim, one of the two co-pilots of the ill-fated flight? Huh? I had to watch the film entirely through to realize that what was claimed the first minute was a crafty deception and the next 40 minutes will be dedicated to only this first scenario. This raises the question whether we'll be unlucky enough to get one or more sequels about the second and third scenarios. But how could you fill 40 minutes talking about an on-board cause of the crash when no-one is seriously claiming it? Maybe they will roll it in with the second one. Let's get back to the unfortunate co-pilot, where they're interviewing his family. The family then can't understand why Mr. Rahim's last status update on his social media site was a small icon of an airplane next to a small icon of a cartoon rocket-ship. The narrator then calls the spaceship a "rocket", but wait, it's actually worse, because in Russian the word for missile is simply "rocket". Dun-dun-dun! We're then informed by the uncle that Mr. Rahim was most likely at the control at the time of the crash. Okay, so what are you implying here, film? In the next part the film talks about MH-17 flight path and parameters, and even mentions that below 7900m was restricted airspace over the warzone. But they also mention the "interesting" factoid that MH-17 path intersected with a similarly-looking president Putin's plane over Warsaw. Except the Malaysian flight was half hour earlier. And had two engines instead of four. This just reminds me of that scene in the movie Airplane!: "What kind of plane is it?" - "Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol!" The film briefly mentions Anna Petrenko, the Dnepropetrovsk air traffic controller (dispatcher) and the last one to guide the flight. The film demonstrates that she is an ardent supported of the new Kiev government by showing her facebook posts and claims that Ihor Kolomoyskyi, the Dnepropetrovsk governor, is a respected authority figure for her. The film also implies that "according to some information" a shadowy never-before seen figure was directing her work that day. By this point, the tension is unbearable. The film is eyeing up the sexy conspiracy theories on the dance floor. If it's lucky, tonight we can get to third base; and by "third base" I mean "Obama at the helm of Su-25 pushing the button". But no, at this point the film gets too self-conscious and slinks away to its basement to play with its airplane collection. Because up next is an entirely useless clip of a former stewardess describing an aircraft passengers' standard in-flight activities. And everything presented thus far will never be mentioned again. With this background material out of the way, we're getting to the meat of the presentation: from information gathered in Ukreaine, on July 17th 4 modernized ground-attack aircraft of an elite unit took of from the Kulbakino air base near Nikolayev. It mentions PM Yatsenyuk visited the air base two months previously. The planes flew past Dnepropetrovsk and loitered around the area where the Boeing was shot down. It's pointed out that 3 hours after the crash Ukrainian MOD denied have any military aircraft in the area, while Russian radar picked up a military jet signature. The film then wants for the Ukrainians to hand over the military pilot conversations with the airforce dispatchers. Yes, quite reasonable. The film then tosses in the fact that Ukraine deployed the Buk missiles near the crash area. Hold on there, film, I thought we were still on the first version of events! Lieutenant-General Andrey Kartopolov, the Main Operations Directorate of the HQ of Russia's military forces, is shown at a press conference talking about satellite photos showing Buk launchers going missing from a Ukrainian base after the 14th and being spotted near the village of Zaroshchenskoe, 50km east of Donetsk on the 17th of July. The high activity of Kupol radar in the days leading up to the crash is also noted. The film then starts tossing out questions and requests one after another that it demands the Ukrainians answer. They basically boil down to handing over missile inventory, Ukrainian air defense organization and equipment information to Russia. It also accuses Ukraine of failing to close its entire airspace and failing to investigate the plane wreckage after the crash. There's no ironicat big enough. Next up is an interview from Ivan Ganza, a Rostov civil air traffic controller. The narrator talks about the unidentified radar contact loitering around the crash area, yet the interviewee doesn't talk about that at all. In fact, the interview is really boring, because Mr. Ganza doesn't say anything your average air traffic controller wouldn't say. So, come on, film, you've traveled all the way to Rostov, but you can't be bothered to interview the person who was monitoring MH-17 and the unidentified blip that day? The film continues with the voice recordings. The film accuses the Dutch investigators for having revealed only a "small" portion of those recordings: "before, during, and immediately after the tragedy" and covering up the rest. So what's exactly missing then, as far as the crash is concerned? A dry and boring reconstruction of the MH-17 & dispatcher conversation is then played. Finally, we get to the whiteboard and pointing stick. Holder of the stick is Ivan Andrievsky, first vice-president of Russian Engineering Union. He rattles off some known facts of that day, such as the presented Russian radar data, weather conditions, Boeing-777 and various missiles' technical parameters, etc. He notes that the pilots must have died first because they had to chance to send a distress message. He shows the famous port-side cockpit windows photo, claiming the large hole was created by a aircraft cannon from the other (I assume starboard) side, puncturing right through the plane's cockpit. Examining some other holes is the fuselage, he claims the plane was shooting from the side and below the Boeing. The long damage seen on the wing is also a glancing strike "characteristic of a cannon". The film then travels to Munich to talk with Peter Haisenko, the "author of this work". Wait, so did the Russian Union of Engineers do anything, or were they just plagiarizing things with their whiteboard? No matter, Herr Haisenko talks about how lucky he was to find that cockpit damage photo and how it indicates the jet pilot was aiming right at the Boeing pilot's stomach. Here it gets confusing and disjointed, but I think he claims the cockpit was shot up from both sides all based on which way the metal around holes is bent (and it looks like they bent both inwards and outwards). Then he brings up that not only was the Boeing shot up with the 30-mm cannon, but it was hit by an air-to-air missile as well! And supposedly, the missile came first, and then the jet went for a second, strafing run, just to make sure. To hit the point home, we get an animation of the Su-25 attacking the Boeing with its cannon while on perpendicular flight-paths. Kudos to the Ukrainian pilot for the amazing feat of flying sideways. And where's the a-to-a missile? Oh, whatever, we're about to hear from eye-witnesses of the Boeing breaking apart. First up is Vladimir, describing first hearing a "pop" and then the falling plane, with a missing cockpit, but not aflame, emerging from the overcast skies and gliding down until one of the wings came off, and then corkscrewing to the ground. And great job in interviewing him outside, where I can barely hear anything because of the wind. Second is Vitaliy, saw the plane falling, then heard an explosion, at which point the plane started to completely disintegrate and then hit the ground. Finally, we have Ivan Demchenko, who heard two bangs followed by a large explosion, and saw a second, smaller silver plane. Unfortunately, he's also the least coherent one and I can't understand how he could have seen the plane when even the Russian Engineering Union admitted that the skies were heavily overcast that day only 9 minutes ago. Then it's back to Herr Haisenko, who in way more words insinuates that the airliner was shot down specifically over rebel held territory so that an investigation could not take place. Then he blames the official investigation from withholding the truth and covering up evidence by removing crash-site photos from the web. Also uncovered is a conspiracy of editing Wikipedia and other websites to under-state the Su-25's true 10km flight ceiling. To prove the last point, we get a statement from Vladimir Mikhaylov, former commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force, confirming that a Su-25 can remain above 9km for about 30 minutes because he'd personally flown at that height and it had no ill effects on his health. (?) Mamontov then returns to waste time and speculate what would have been going through the hypothetical Ukrainian's head when he pulled the trigger. Then we're back at the crash site in order to once again accuse either Ukrainian or Western investigators for failing to gather evidence of the disaster. To prove this point, the film brings out Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, a prominent Malaysian scholar and author, President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST). He, in turn, quotes some articles that imply that the on-the-ground investigation was prevented by the Ukrainian army. The funny part here is not that Dr. Muzaffar is several orders removed from the events in Donetsk, but that he speaks so slowly that the interpreter manages to translate three full sentences in the time it takes Dr. Muzaffar to finish saying just (the first) one. He then demands the Ukrainian government explain the facts of the accident. Now, having been bored by this point, we get to the exciting part that we've seen in the preview - Su-25 shooting at things in a field test. It's a long segment, but I'm sure you're all aware of the point they're trying to make. And next, having experimentally incontrovertibly demonstrated that the Boeing was shot down by a 30-mm canon, it's time to... introduce another theory that it was downed by a S-125 (NATO SA-3) surface-to-air missile! And all because the German government revealed that NATO spy planes flying over Poland and Romania have registered S-125 activity, a SAM system that's still used by Ukraine, but not by Russia. Curse you, German government, for having to sit through 7 more minutes of this! And we're back to Ivan Andrievsky and his pointing stick, which I want to knock out of his hands so he would stop striking the whiteboard so much. He says it couldn't have been a SAM, because the missile would have left a long and visible exhaust trail, which was not seen. But then the film shows a Buk missile launch and the light-grey trail is nothing like the pure-white jet-contrail-like line depicted in the photos. As I check the clock, the next scene is an interview with Harris Hussein from the New Straits Times newspaper. He talks about Malay military officials doubting the Buk scenario because the wreckage pieces were not small enough and the wreckage evidence indicating damage from both a cannon and an a-to-a missile. He then draws the port side wing and illustrates how damage on that wing indicates that the Boeing was shot from the the hind port quarter (7 o'clock) , or completely the wrong side than was claimed before. But it's fine, because Mr. Hussein is quoting what the experts told him. Experts, that they couldn't be bother to interview. Then he also joins the chorus of claims that the official investigators are withholding evidence and passengers' bodies from the public. Yawn. Finally, we're back to co-pilot Muhd Firdaus's family from the very beginning. The film tries to go for full pathos here, but I'm so bored that I don't care. Of all the things to show, they tour his brand new house with a gigantic wall-mounted flat-screen TV, and rooms that feel so sterile and un-lived-in, that it fails to evoke any emotion out of me. And I can tear up watching Air Crash Investigations. And we're done here, but not before the narrator can get one more chance to blame Western investigators for not bothering to show up at the crash site, collect evidence, dig through the rubble or question witnesses. Yeah, and do you know why they can't do it, you piece of poo poo movie? Because some people want to play "liberators" of Russian Donbas. No, don't promise me a sequel, 40 min of this was enough. gently caress you, film author Arkadiy Mamontov, you pro-Kremlin shill gently caress you, director Evgeniy Zaychenko, you talentless hack And gently caress you, producer Alexander Dyukov, you exceptional piece of pseudo-historical poo poo
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It reminds me of the Russian's response to the August 21st Sarin attacks in Damascus, there narrative was based on whatever was the latest theory on the internet, resulting in their announcements becoming increasingly contradictory and confusing. It seems they're doing the same thing again with MH17, but this time they've got an official criminal investigation to contend with, one that's not limited in what it can and cannot say like the OPCW investigation into August 21st.
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Angela Merkel says the talks with Putin at the end of the month are canceled. http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/60944.html Different factions of militants in the DNR are clashing over elections. quote:Continue to conflicts between different terrorist groups, now provoked the so-called "election campaign" run by the leaders of terrorist organizations "FSC" and "NPT". Told the head of the military-political studies D. TIMCHUK on his page in Facebook . SEE ALSO In Luhansk SBU found hidden terrorists "Byesa" arsenal of weapons "In particular," DNR "reported attack militant units subordinate to the leader of the terrorists Bezleru ("Byesu"), the "campaign headquarters" current "premiere DNR" Zaharchenko "- he wrote. Guide terrorist organization "DNR" order sent out commanders of their units with the "improve mobility" groups of militants by equipping their vehicles. The expert notes that "increased mobility" is due to remote populations in private vehicles . The Facebook post: quote:Operational data group "Information resistance." Mariupol is being shelled. This is while the OSCE conducts drone surveillance over the area to see if the cease fire is holding. https://twitter.com/tombreadley/status/521598841305726976 https://twitter.com/audrius1977/status/521587786286379009
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Does anyone know what RTL Late Night is like in Holland? I've been invited on as a guest to talk about my MH17 work.
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Paladinus posted:I hope this hasn't been posted yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kt3eFi7LWY
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Dreissi posted:I'm confused. Are you happy people went to jail for two weeks because they bad mouthed a political figure? Oh of course they just tried to pick an attention in something awful way. So they got this attention in the same way they tried it pick up. Please don't do it like them. But like this: la la la la la I dare you 
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Brown Moses posted:Does anyone know what RTL Late Night is like in Holland? I've been invited on as a guest to talk about my MH17 work. It's a talk show. The hosts invite people who have been in the news, could be journalists that covered some recent story, celebrities or political figures and they talk about it. Tone is light-hearted but still serious. If you can access it, you can watch an episode to get a feel for it; http://www.rtlxl.nl/#!/afl-35-301978/886e1938-9431-3686-9983-581f5640e4ad It's in Dutch though, I don't actually recall an English episode but I guess obviously they have them. e. Uh, you probably figured this out already, not sure what else to say, do you have any more directed question?
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Paladinus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Nr31Lv6H8 Не могу удержаться.))) Этож Алеша Попович! Вот вам мультик про Алешу Поповича, Тугарина Змея и силушку богатырскую.))) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vPQKM5UOJU
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Namarrgon posted:It's a talk show. The hosts invite people who have been in the news, could be journalists that covered some recent story, celebrities or political figures and they talk about it. Tone is light-hearted but still serious. So it's something people actually watch, rather than some obscure thing?
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Brown Moses posted:So it's something people actually watch, rather than some obscure thing? Oh yes absolutely. A quick google tells me they seem to circle around a million viewers an episode (compare; 17 million people live in the NL). In comparison, that is about half as much as watch the 8 o'clock news, which is the 'main' news and virtually always has the most viewers.
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Brown Moses posted:So it's something people actually watch, rather than some obscure thing? I can only speak for their german programming, but all RTL group owned channels here are known for their sketchy, tabloid-esque approach to reporting. But they sure do have a lot viewers.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Fans fighting police at yesterday's Romania-Hungary football match. A better view from the stands (starts at around 1:50) The ones in black tshirts are the hungarians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXL2bxkN3ZU thats the lamest "fight" I've ever seen 3peat fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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kalstrams posted:Same hope, different video. Wow, so much cease fire.
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Karmalis posted:Wow, so much cease fire. According to the title, it was from over 2 weeks ago.
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Is that one of those (old as gently caress) 100mm AT/field guns? 100 mm field gun model 1944 (BS-3) I remember it in particular because my Iraqi crew somehow took out 2-3 Abrams in WinSPMBT during the Gulf War with one 
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Ardennes posted:According to the title, it was from over 2 weeks ago.
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kalstrams posted:Wasn't ceasefire effective back then too? Yes, but it will have little consequence for the ceasefire right now.
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Pimpmust posted:Is that one of those (old as gently caress) 100mm AT/field guns? Same gun as the T-55, with modern ammunition it'd still gently caress up basically any older tank.
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