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In Kyiv, the General attorney is concerned that "volunteer batallion" "Aidar" may stage a coup. http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/11/7/7043584/?attempt=1 These are highly "interesting times" on both sides. Of note is that Aidar is, as far as I know, not directly linked to any Oligarch. Their pretty heavy handed tactics in Donbass (seperatists tend to see them as the third most "evil" Group after Azov and Right Sector) definitly give them legitimacy in Ukrainian nationalists circles, and that they of all People in some way cooperate with the seperatists and/or Russia is incredibly unlikely. While I am the last one to minimize the role of far right militias, I think it is not very likely that a single batallion can successfully stage a coup. Especially one like Aidar which tooks some really heavy losses in the fighting. This thus seems more like a prelude to either increasing control over this unit or disbanding it. E: It seems that the more "Populist", as in, not linked to oligarchs and/or foreign interests (Strelkov f.e. apperantly had a Russian Oligarch sugar Daddy, and fell in close correlation with his sugar Daddy getting jailed for tax evasion), fractions on both sides are loosing out. Mightypeon fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Nov 10, 2014 |
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A Lithuanian spy was caught spying for Belarus. http://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/nusikaltimaiirnelaimes/lietuvoje-demaskuoti-snipai-pirmoji-byla-perduota-teismui-59-465537?cf=df quote:Referred to the Court a high-profile criminal case in which a Lithuanian citizen accused of spying a foreign state. Over the long-term intelligence operation was found that the Lithuanian RL collect confidential information for the benefit of Belarus. Portal 15min.lt sources said that the information was not about politics or politicians. google translate does a really lovely job with Lithuanian. Putin says thanks to those no good Right Sector homonazis constantly shelling the MH17 crash site, it's impossible to do any thorough investigation. http://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/35747941/raboty-na-meste-padeniya-malazijskogo-boeing-nevozmozhny-iz#ixzz3IfK9uNpV quote:Ukrainian military constantly shelled area near the crash Malaysian Boeing in Donbas, it is not possible fully to work at the crash site, said President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak. HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Nov 10, 2014 |
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Nov 10, 2014 12:46
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They're reading the names and ages of MH17 victims at a memorial service and it's especially depressing to hear the children who were on board 
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Nov 10, 2014 14:12
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Mightypeon posted:In more actual News, Bezler sack is for real (as in sacked, not as in "he actually stopped leading People"), Mozgovois Brigade got "integrated into Novorussijas armed Forces", which he liked, but not as Brigade but distributed towards other formations, which he categorically rejected. It is not yet clear what will happen from that. There's some rumors that he was Assassinated by Russian Security Services: http://pressimus.com/Interpreter_Mag/press/4932 for refusing to submit to Russian military command.
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Mightypeon posted:In Kyiv, the General attorney is concerned that "volunteer batallion" "Aidar" may stage a coup. Товарищ, зачем ты понимаешь украинского языка? I can virtually assure you Aidar has an oligarch or two backing them because you can't even get a job running a rural traffic stop without an oligarch. I think both revolutions are eating (some) of their children, but the biggest danger after direct Russian invasion is their respective oligarchies reaching an even more crooked deal than the usual shenanigans. As for Bezler, I would guess he's being held at an undisclosed location where he could die of a pre-existing medical condition at any time. Putin's not worried about anyone coming for him and he could still be useful or killed off as needed, so no need to make a decision right now. Smerdyakov fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Nov 10, 2014 |
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Nov 10, 2014 18:59
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Forgall posted:Apparently they are fast-tracking the law which will prohibit foreign companies from storing personal data of russians from 2016 to 2015. Not really sure what consequences it will have. Well the obvious and immediate one is that pretty much every major social network gets banned in Russia. On the one hand, the current situation where a very large part of everyone's online activity is run through a handful of US megacorporations isn't exactly ideal, given that US data protection laws are pretty lovely even for their own citizens, and virtually non-existent for foreigners. On the other hand, Balkanizing Russia's internet access even further is just going to isolate Russians even further from the rest of the world and force them to rely more on their heavily distorted state media. It could have global knock-on effects, too. A lot of countries started thinking quite hard about this after Snowden. If Russia follows China's lead, maybe others would, too. Of course, a "great firewall of Russia" may not affect Russians too much, given how most seem to use VK anyway.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lhxc1qu6DY
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60 minutes has gotten really weird since mike wallace died
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Hey an article about your report made it to estonia, BrownMoses.http://www.postimees.ee/2986647/raport-lend-mh17-tulistati-alla-vene-sojavaelt-parineva-raketisusteemiga There is bound to be gold in the comment section but I'm on a phone at work right now so I can't really check.
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RocketSurgeon posted:Hey an article about your report made it to estonia, BrownMoses.http://www.postimees.ee/2986647/raport-lend-mh17-tulistati-alla-vene-sojavaelt-parineva-raketisusteemiga It's got really good coverage, it got on the Dutch wires so it's all over the place in Holland, Finland appears to have covered it in depth, and it made it to the Daily Mail website. I'm about to do a lecture on it to dozens of US journalists in New York, that should give it another boost.
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Nov 11, 2014 09:40
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Putin caused a diplomatic scandal when he put a blanket on the shoulders of the first lady in China. You can see after she immediately drops the blanket for a jacket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsbPFmTyt_A http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/fauxpas-beim-apec-gipfel-wladimir-putin-legt-decke-um-peng-liyuan-a-1002159.html
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Nov 11, 2014 11:50
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Putin caused a diplomatic scandal when he put a blanket on the shoulders of the first lady in China. You can see after she immediately drops the blanket for a jacket. Still, Yeltsin would have goosed her, so not that bad.
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Nov 11, 2014 13:31
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Putin caused a diplomatic scandal when he put a blanket on the shoulders of the first lady in China. You can see after she immediately drops the blanket for a jacket. Awesome move, Xi and China left looking like bunch off hillbillies while Putin comes of as a suave gentlemen. Man loves to troll.
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Nov 11, 2014 13:36
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Smerdyakov posted:Товарищ, зачем ты понимаешь украинского языка? I can read Ukrainian and generally get the meaning but not speak or understand it unless someone is speaking very slowly. Kind of like Dutch for most Germans. I would normally agree with that, but the normal structures of power are considerably damaged, and it could be feasible that some of the resulting power vacuums get at least temporarily filled by non oligarch actors. In addition, which Oligarch? As far as I understand current Oligarch shenangians in Ukraine proper, the main thing is Kolomoisky vs. Poroshenko, with Firtash (who got a major win in the election because his Pet Nazi got into the Rada, while Kolomoiskies did not) being currently allied with Poroshenko, but Poroshenko not being very sure about his allegiance. Firtash was also instrumental in getting Klitschko and Poroshenko into one camp, and it is strongly implied that he has good relations with the Germans at least right now, and had decent working relations with the Russians. The US also apperantly choose to no longer bother him with money laundering charges. Concerning the damage, what I am worried about is the "super awesome Russian invasion prevention plan by your friendly pro Western Oligarchs". Basically, rob and expropriate Ukraine so thoroughly that not even Russia wants it anymore, blame every social hardship on Russia, exfiltrate the loot into the West, burn down everything you cant loot and commit just enough cruelties to make Ukraine a utterly divided political powderkeg but not enough cruelties to be ousted outright.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Putin caused a diplomatic scandal when he put a blanket on the shoulders of the first lady in China. You can see after she immediately drops the blanket for a jacket. Eh, it's no shoulder massage.
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Warcabbit posted:Eh, it's no shoulder massage. True, and he did the same to Angela Merkel at the last G 8 he was invited to.
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Nov 11, 2014 15:03
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Warcabbit posted:Eh, it's no shoulder massage. Pretty much, looks like he just gave a blanket to someone who mentioned they were a bit cold. China why you have to go get so weird about this, Putins done so many legit bad things you could get mad about, don't get mad at him when he actually does something not poo poo.
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Nov 11, 2014 15:42
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Mind you, comments from normal Chinese over this were generally positive ("oh, he is actually a gentlemen, wouldnt have expected that!"), until the Chinese goverment closed the comments function.
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Nov 11, 2014 15:48
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He was also late by 30 minutes to take a photo of all the other 19 world leaders lol. I've read a lot of articles by the theatre/art/literature-related opposition where they call him a gopnik or pahan - a thug with a worldview typical of the 90s russian criminal society. Pretty accurate considering the guy JUST decided to appropriate another private oil business (Bashneft). One memorably put it as "The world paid a huge price trying to develop civilization and it can't afford to tolerate a gopnik with nuclear weapons".
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Mightypeon posted:Concerning the damage, what I am worried about is the "super awesome Russian invasion prevention plan by your friendly pro Western Oligarchs". Basically, rob and expropriate Ukraine so thoroughly that not even Russia wants it anymore, blame every social hardship on Russia, exfiltrate the loot into the West, burn down everything you cant loot and commit just enough cruelties to make Ukraine a utterly divided political powderkeg but not enough cruelties to be ousted outright. A plausible situation that Ukraine has been put in by Russia. Blame still lies with Russia. I won't deny the "West" is going to exploit the situation but "operation gently caress with Ukraine and then rob it" was never a plan before Russia decided the cold war was still a thing. This will always be Russia's mess and that they might not even get the spoils is entirely their problem.
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If you take Siberia, I'll take your girl.
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Somaen posted:He was also late by 30 minutes to take a photo of all the other 19 world leaders lol. I've read a lot of articles by the theatre/art/literature-related opposition where they call him a gopnik or pahan - a thug with a worldview typical of the 90s russian criminal society. Pretty accurate considering the guy JUST decided to appropriate another private oil business (Bashneft). One memorably put it as "The world paid a huge price trying to develop civilization and it can't afford to tolerate a gopnik with nuclear weapons". He's not the one try to appropriate Bashneft though. Russia's a big country, not everything can be attributed to Putin.
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Here is a fun article comparing the most popular internet porn searches between Russia and the United States. Should I be surprised that in homophobic Russia "anal" and "double anal" are both very popular searches? And the USA spends more time on internet porn sites than Russia. http://www.pornhub.com/insights/united-states-vs-russia/
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Nov 11, 2014 16:44
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Panas posted:He's not the one try to appropriate Bashneft though. Russia's a big country, not everything can be attributed to Putin. What? There is absolutely no way something of this scale could happen without his full approval. Rosneft wouldn't be able to force the courts to approve the arrest of a multi billionaire.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Here is a fun article comparing the most popular internet porn searches between Russia and the United States. I find "Mom" being #2 on the list being more disturbing.
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dr_rat posted:Pretty much, looks like he just gave a blanket to someone who mentioned they were a bit cold. China why you have to go get so weird about this, Putins done so many legit bad things you could get mad about, don't get mad at him when he actually does something not poo poo.
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Nov 11, 2014 16:53
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The blanket was infected with Multidrug-resistant TB. Mycobacterium make great pets!
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Here is a fun article comparing the most popular internet porn searches between Russia and the United States. 
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Ardennes posted:I find "Mom" being #2 on the list being more disturbing. I'm sorry you don't like mother daughter porn, the best kind their is.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The blanket was infected with Multidrug-resistant TB.
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I think if we get Sasha Grey and Lisa Ann to travel to Moscow and film a hot lesbian mother/daughter anal porn, it'll sweep the nation. It could end with a casting scene with Madison Ivy, where she gets a massage. Any investors?
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Nitrox posted:I think if we get Sasha Grey and Lisa Ann to travel to Moscow and film a hot lesbian mother/daughter anal porn, it'll sweep the nation. It could end with a casting scene with Madison Ivy, where she gets a massage. Any investors? I'd watch it. I don't know who those people are except the Palin lady but I'd watch it.
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I'd invest in it. Wait NO gently caress!
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Somaen posted:He was also late by 30 minutes to take a photo of all the other 19 world leaders lol. I've read a lot of articles by the theatre/art/literature-related opposition where they call him a gopnik or pahan - a thug with a worldview typical of the 90s russian criminal society. Pretty accurate considering the guy JUST decided to appropriate another private oil business (Bashneft). One memorably put it as "The world paid a huge price trying to develop civilization and it can't afford to tolerate a gopnik with nuclear weapons". For a really scary leader take a look at Batka, that's a guy you definitely don't want to come across in a dark alley. And even he is probably pretty harmless compared to someone like Kadyrov. That would be the real gopnik territory. As a bonus, hold on to your panties and watch gentlemen Putin sing blueberry hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekeq4szDmJo
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Dude, Putin is running Russia like a mob boss would.
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He literally did the it's a nice place you got here thing to Ukraine and that's out of a loving movie.
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Eh, about 50% of it is just Russian machismo, the other 50% is pretty much exactly what you said.
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It's nothing like comparing an Obama to a gang member. Culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTUrqqkdMYI Gangs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozero
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Doesn't putin have his own biker gang?
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Somaen posted:It's nothing like comparing an Obama to a gang member. I have no idea what point you are trying to make, so have some videos from everyday life in Russia instead: This is me on my daily commute to work, had a little bit too much shower beer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82xuGOwXzOI Me an my droogs going shopping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKcmWmlzwB4 Bums: making a mess all over the city https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxJLcPJyQok
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