my dad posted:

Cat Mattress posted:

wtf am I reading

Cat Mattress posted:

wtf am I reading

Paladinus posted:

This is really weird. You'd think Russia would play safe with human rights for a while just to pose as the victim of sanctions over nothing and all, but here you go.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Polish Air Force is on its way to Lithuania to participate in Baltic Air Policing.

http://www.defence24.pl/news_polscy-lotnicy-udaja-sie-na-litwe




Who's face is that on the inside tail fin on that MiG?

waitwhatno posted:

A couple of years ago the Russian government banned international adoptions from US couples in response to to some financial sanctions. These people are totally fine with letting thousands of children rot in state orphanages just to get back at the US.

In Russias case, always assume malice first.

Valiantman posted:

Finnish social workers... This is me prefacing this bullet point but do you know how very common it is that Finns steal Russian kids from their mothers for no reasons but national hatred?

Valiantman posted:

• According to the head of Russian foreign intelligence agency, western investment funds have attacked the Russian markets, causing the collapse of the ruble. In other words, there's a war going on already.
  

kalstrams posted:

I was referencing cases when Russians travel to Greater Scandinavia and then child "gets stolen" from family "under pretense of protecting child from abuse".

Cuntpunch posted:

Adam Curtis did a fun miniblurb again this year, Russia is kind of central to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcy8uLjRHPM

Cuntpunch posted:

Adam Curtis did a fun miniblurb again this year, Russia is kind of central to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcy8uLjRHPM

TheCoach posted:

Turns out the CIA is going to start world war 3 because Alison is upset(first segment in that video)
And this is totally gonna kickstart her career
If you study slav you become slav.

Karmalis posted:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=509_1420572234

but also

Am a little confused after watching it. Looks more like something from a David Lynch movie, but I'll try to describe it briefly:

"Farai" is something like the show "Cops". The video is from it. A drunken lady (half naked) was trying to breach a door into a basement and was spouting out some crazy talk about Eastern Europe, US and WWIII. The police showed up with the crew.
No conclusion unfortunately on how everything ended and I'm not able to find any more details about it.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Crazy American lady gets drunk in Lithuania. I do wonder though what happened to her to make her behave that way.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Crazy American lady gets drunk in Lithuania. I do wonder though what happened to her to make her behave that way.

MeLKoR posted:

Policeman grabs her wrist
*screams bloody murder* OH MY FACE! MY FACE!

Karmalis posted:

Alcohol and/or drugs. I've seen people flip the most rational minds by doing one or both to an almost overkill level.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

The police officers and the medics were all the picture of calm and patience. You have to be in that line of work though.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

The police officers and the medics were all the picture of calm and patience. You have to be in that line of work though.

Friendly Tumour posted:

This has probably been posted before, but here's the Finnish band Leningrad Cowboys performing together with the Red Army choir in '93 at the Senate Square in Helsinki.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHb4Q6hSXEI

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Bellingcat investigators based their conclusion on an analysis of photographs of the BUK launcher in Russia and later in the Ukraine. The dents and scratches on the launcher are identical—like a fingerprint.
The convoy was part of a unit dispatched by Russia's 53rd Air Defense Brigade which is based in Kursk. At the end of June, the convoy drove to the Ukraine border. CORRECT!V fact checked the Bellingcat results, their finding are convincing.
And there are further peculiarities. A sergeant of the 53rd brigade who is particularly active online posted numerous pictures of his unit on his page on Vkontakte (vk.com), the Russian clone of Facebook. The sergeant’s name is Ivan Krasnoproshin. Among his pictures is a photo of a document reporting his discharge from the Russian army in mid-June. The photo showing a page in his unit’s logbook lists the names of the soldiers reporting for the evening roll call. Number one: Sergeant Krasnoproshin, followed by 13 privates. Every day is crossed off. The last entry is on June 13th. Then there is a hand-written note behind Sergeant Krasnoproshin’s name: “Discharged due to completion of service period according to order no. (illegible).”
Indeed, according to the logbook, Sergeant Krasnoproshin was not the only member of his unit to be suddenly discharged from the Russian military on that day. Three additional soldiers in Sergeant Krasnoproshin’s unit—including Sergeant Krasnoproshin nearly one third of the unit’s members—were discharged on the same day and for the same reason.

Discharges of this type raise questions. The Committee of Russian Soldier Mothers has reported that many soldiers are required to sign discharge papers before they are sent to fight in the Ukraine.
In the middle of June, several days after Krasnoproshin and his comrades were discharged, the long convoy of the 53rd air defense brigade made its way towards Ukraine. Again someone posted a photo in a social network. Again we can see the same BUK launcher 3*2.
There is little doubt: it was the 53rd Russian air defense brigade from Kursk that took position in Snizhne in eastern Ukraine on that fateful afternoon.

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The settlement by the railway embankment consists of flat farm buildings surrounded by fences and walls. Dogs bark. At first there are no people in sight. If someone appears, they immediately go on their way. The people are afraid. “They’ll kill me if I say something,” says one man.
A woman lives with her daughter by the embankment. She was in her house on July 17th 2014. “I heard a loud bang,” she says, then her neighbor called and told her that an airplane had been shot down. “We saw the smoke.” She refuses to answer any further questions.
After long knocks an old man with scrubby white hair under a cap appears and agrees to talk. The man says he was not in the village in July, but that the roof of his house was broken when he returned – as was the case with many others in the village. Everyone here has a clear memory of July 17th 2014. Everyone remembers what they did on that day. Two women and two men come by. A conversation begins.
A women says: “An airplane flew by, well, we don’t know if it was a plane. We heard something, a long sound, then there was a noise.” A zumm sound. A long prolonged swooshing noise. She remembers it well.
Another woman could “see thick smoke” from the factory. “Everyone was alarmed,” she said. Where did the smoke come from? She becomes unsettled. “How should we know what that was? We heard something explode.”
A man suddenly says: “Over there the railroad ties and the grass were burning.” But then one of the women elbows him in the side and he stops talking. A cell phone rings, the people walk away.
Another visit, two days later. It’s early. The streets in the settlement are empty. Dogs bark once again, they pull on chains between metal doors. After long knocks a villager opens his front door. “Are you a spy?” is his first question after a quick introduction. The man fled town in August because of the fighting. But on July 17th 2014 he was here. Any question about this day scares him.
“I remember, but you know I won’t tell you everything about that, I’m afraid it would end badly for me.” The CORRECT!V journalist introduces himself—and shows identification. He says that he is here to learn more. The people in Europe want to know what happened, why so many people had to die here in the Ukraine, shot down in a peaceful airplane.
The man hesitates. Then he starts to talk: “They shot it down. The missile flew from here. We saw it, as it flew.”
He points to the railway embankment. A friend of his had already seen the missile. “He called me and said, 'there’s this amazing thing here with four missiles.'” The friend will also remain unnamed. “He is afraid. These are dangerous times.” But one question still bothers the witness. “They planned everything. I just don’t know why they brought the missile here?”
He continues. “I was in the yard and heard an explosion, a bang. It was a really loud bang. The tiles on my roof shook. The bang came from over there, it was easy to hear. Then there was a long sound. And then a very loud explosion: bang, bang. And just as I ran out into the road, the plane began to fall. Down the road several kilometers from here. Do you understand? And you could see it burn.”
Asked about the loud bang, the witness had an explanation. “It launched from over there,” he said.

When asked whether Russian soldiers or separatists fired the missile, the man laughs. For him the rocket launch could only be executed by Russian soldiers. “Which miner shoots missiles? No, those were specialists. Do you think I go about launching missiles?”
This witness completes the picture: it was a BUK M1 rocket that brought the passenger plane out of the sky – brought into position by soldiers of the 53rd air defense brigade from Kursk who were in the city of Snizhne without national markings to protect Russian tank units.*

Anosmoman posted:

I really like the cop. "It will be world war III!" "Ok, we do world war III, no problem."

quote:

Fed many stereotypes about Eastern Europe in the U.S., Allison said the most surprising thing is how helpful and friendly Lithuanians truly are.

Valiantman posted:

Aand there went my evening. If nothing else, everyone will want to see and hear at least Gimme All Your Lovin', starting at 58:45.

I mean it.

Okay, for your inner slav perhaps Kalinka just before it, too.

Brown Moses posted:

A really big new MH17 investigation has been released by Correct!v in conjunction with Spiegel, which includes a lot of on ground investigating in Ukraine. They've spoken to people in Snizhne and have found witnesses to the missile launch, visited the locations geolocated in the Bellingcat report that tracked the movements of the Buk on July 17th and confirmed it was all correct, and done lots of additional work.

The Correct!v report is here in German and English, and Spiegel has an interactive piece in German here.

Few choice quotes

Smerdyakov posted:

Simplifying way too much there, it takes two to tango/ruin the lives of vulnerable children. Two things were happening:

1) Russian orphanages misrepresenting the family/psychological/health background of the children being adopted
2) More than one case of Americans trying to "return" the children, as if they were a defective pair of flip-flops, and more than one case of kids being severely abused or murdered by their adopted parents.

Of course the Russian government exploited it for domestic political gain, but everyone does that. And honestly, most international adoptions should be banned--there are plenty of perfectly good orphans* in America and you're more likely to get the truth about their background in the US. If you wouldn't buy a Russian car, you shouldn't adopt a Russian kid

*Orphans may not be white. Many people apparently feel that getting a hosed up white kid is still better than getting a psychologically healthy brown one that already speaks english.

quote:

Simplifying way too much there, it takes two to tango/ruin the lives of vulnerable children.

my dad posted:

I'm seeing news reports about Yatsenyuk saying something about "Soviet Union's unjust invasion of Germany". Is it Russian media doing their thing again, and it being reported further, or did he seriously say that?

quote:

Russian special forces stormed the headquarters of the terrorists Lugansk

Special Forces of the Russian terrorists stormed the base RRT "Batman" in Lugansk, which is located in the dormitory of the East Ukrainian National University named after Volodymyr Dahl.

About this podrobnosti.ua reported residents of the city.

"We thought the front again moved here, it shoots very close, and that they arranged among themselves," - said a resident of Lugansk Victoria.

The same information is also confirmed by other witnesses.

"At the moment the base" Batman "in Lugansk takes by storm Wagner group which included experts at Russian GRU. On the perimeter dispersed separskie battalions" Dawn "and" Rusich "- wrote a user with the nickname zloy-odessit

According to local on both sides there is a loss.

"Come on already killed on both sides. We can only wait, when the flow rate, as well as" Batman, "Let the other" heroes "New Russia without significant value," - says zloy-odessit.livejournal

my dad posted:

I'm seeing news reports about Yatsenyuk saying something about "Soviet Union's unjust invasion of Germany". Is it Russian media doing their thing again, and it being reported further, or did he seriously say that?

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Russian special forces stormed a separatist headquarters in Luhansk today.

http://podrobnosti.ua/accidents/2015/01/09/1010526.html