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OhYeah posted:Yakunin was reportedly were well regarded in Putin's inner circle until very recently. It seems like he's getting the shaft now. They are bringing in corruption/tax evasion charges so it's possible he'll have to flee the country. Yakunin mismanaged his way out of favor in late 2004 when Russian Railways cut a bunch of unprofitable routes to far-flung regions that for many were their only link to the rest of Russia/the world. Mr. Yakunin evidently got drunk and forgot that he was in charge of a government-owned company and thus at least had to pretend to operate in the interest of the public good. The affair ended a year ago with Putin's personal intervention. https://www.znak.com/2015-02-04/skandal_s_elektrichkami_dobralsya_do_putina_prezident_potreboval_vernut_otmenennye_marshruty (in Russian). Vladimir Putin posted:Trains have stopped running in some regions? Have you lost your mind? One Friedman unit later, Yakunin is force retired. Another Friedman unit later, they "find out" about all the money he stole and welp.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:This is basically what I picture in my head when I think "Eastern Europe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYqY5YELd0
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Palpek posted:Somebody reminded me of this bit lately and it's spot on: I think that Rade (dude who's speaking to them) putting his bike seat on his bike before cycling away is a neat little touch.
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Doctor Malaver posted:What movie is that?
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Brown Moses posted:Ruslan Leviev had his various accounts on the internet hacked, including his Bellingcat contributor account, so I woke up to this I really don't understand what hackers think this accomplishes.
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Palpek posted:Somebody reminded me of this bit lately and it's spot on: lol @all the butthurt comments and other Eastern Euro users dissing Slovakia Toto že a Bratislava ? Choďte sa vycpať americký debili Skorej Luník preklad:gently caress You
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steinrokkan posted:lol @all the butthurt comments and other Eastern Euro users dissing Slovakia Haha, I remember the indignation here in Slovakia when the movie came out.
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Brown Moses posted:Ruslan Leviev had his various accounts on the internet hacked, including his Bellingcat contributor account, so I woke up to this "needs to be cured much more than published" sounds ominous.
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Friendly Tumour posted:I really don't understand what hackers think this accomplishes. They basically remind people that modern day Russia is basically Mordor and it's minions are everywhere. Cyberattacks like this one are meant to strike fear into the hearts of Russia's enemies.
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Libluini posted:They basically remind people that modern day Russia is basically Mordor and it's minions are everywhere. Cyberattacks like this one are meant to strike fear into the hearts of Russia's enemies. Do you get fearful when you see that dumb propaganda post?
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Friendly Tumour posted:Do you get fearful when you see that dumb propaganda post? Well, no. But then, there's a difference between "meant to be" and "actually working". 
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Apparently a Prague hospital thought this was a good way to indicate the foreigner emergency care section:
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And I thought this Czech add for genuine chocolate face was slightly "un pc"
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I don't see how you can judge them for that, though. Most EE states are ridiculously homogenous and never really experienced diverse societies. Only lately with more global exposure will that very slowly change.
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The Czechs have a huge Vietnamese population which they do their best to totally ignore and generally think of as some sort of automatons that run grocery stores. There isn't really horrible racism, but there's a really weird lack of any sort of interaction. The Vietnamese just come over to run a store for a few years to send money back home and generally do not put down roots or try to interact with the locals, and the locals make absolutely no effort to interact with them. They aren't really hated like the roma, just totally ignored. Here's an interesting article written by a Vietnamese american on their experiences in eastern europe, specially Prague. http://praguemonitor.com/2010/03/26/confession-vietnamese-czech-republic Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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Baronjutter posted:The Czechs have a huge Vietnamese population which they do their best to totally ignore and generally think of as some sort of automatons that run grocery stores. There isn't really horrible racism, but there's a really weird lack of any sort of interaction. The Vietnamese just come over to run a store for a few years to send money back home and generally do not put down roots or try to interact with the locals, and the locals make absolutely no effort to interact with them. They aren't really hated like the roma, just totally ignored. This looks excellent, thank you!
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That's a Good Article and I'm saying that as a Czech. She hits the nail on the head of a lot of the problems - if you had to describe the Vietnamese community here in one phrase, it'd be "inobtrusively omnipresent". They originally did their drat best not to alert anyone - and I honestly can't blame them, the whole roma issue and more recently the immigration clusterfuck prove that if anything, the Czech majority is racist as hell. The Vietnamese if anything managed to dodge a bullet there by being sterotypized as hard-working and comical as opposed to being outright despised which is what happens to, well, just about everyone else. I had a couple Vietnamese schoolmates at the college and we talked about this, apparently there's a young generation that actually wants to stay and expand behind the niches they're forced into, but they're finding resistance both from Czechs and the older Vietnamese that seem to regard the country as means to an end. I'd love to say there's a chance for this generation to actually grow some roots here - but I'm not too hopeful. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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Brown Moses posted:Ruslan Leviev had his various accounts on the internet hacked, including his Bellingcat contributor account, so I woke up to this They missed the opportunity of making it just "Cyberkut", shameful.
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When they aren't running potraviny the Vietnamese make some killer drunk food in Prague. There's a small shop right across from jiriho z podebrad that is def worth visiting if you're in the area
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never trust an elf posted:When they aren't running potraviny the Vietnamese make some killer drunk food in Prague. There's a small shop right across from jiriho z podebrad that is def worth visiting if you're in the area They also spawned some popular but truly unholy abominations like gyros with noodles. It's a shame; I recently ate at a Vietnamese market and the food there was delicious.
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^^^ The restaurants in Sapa seems to be pretty authentic as I mostly see other Vietnamese people eat there. Also a great place to get ingredients for your own cooking. The article is absolutely correct but also something anyone could've told you after being here for for more than a week-long vacation. I work at a multinational company and despite running into Russian and Ukrainian colleagues and customers all the time, there are disproportionally few Vietnamese in this kind of environment. They mostly make Bún bò Nam Bộ for our lunch... That said, I just thought that by this point there'd be enough awareness to realize that crude racial caricatures aren't the most appropriate way to represent foreigners, especially in Prague where there are a noticeable population of Asian and black people.
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Something like Doener kebab (usually chicken) with noodles: I'd wager that nobody ever saw anything like this in Vietnam but here it's good drunk food, as has been pointed out.1
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mobby_6kl posted:Something like Doener kebab (usually chicken) with noodles: 
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It's got an inherent advantage in that it at least looks like meat, unlike what you get in standard fast foods.
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Libluini posted:They basically remind people that modern day Russia is basically Mordor and it's minions are everywhere. Cyberattacks like this one are meant to strike fear into the hearts of Russia's enemies. Hakcing someone's stuff like this is basically just the equivalent of tearing down a few posters and putting up your own. There is absolutely nothing scary about that.
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vetinari100 posted:Haha, I remember the indignation here in Slovakia when the movie came out. Pretty much the same as Kazakhstan when Borat came out. It's clear that Sacsha Baron Cohen has never been there, no one looked at all Asian in any of the Kazakh reel. IIRC, they actually shot that in some Roma ghetto in Romania.
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-Troika- posted:Hakcing someone's stuff like this is basically just the equivalent of tearing down a few posters and putting up your own. There is absolutely nothing scary about that. ...if you were a guy that assassinated people and invaded other countries, that'd be pretty scary
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Baronjutter posted:What's the FT paywall trick? google the title & click the link
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I saw a link to WW3 Inside the War Room on BBC News recently. What's the general consensus of that program?
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Okay it's a few days later now but I can't stop looking at that kebab and noodles without really wanting it. gently caress y'all who think that's gross.
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Friendly Tumour posted:Now taking bets on the imminent downfall of the Poroshenko government, odds are 20:1 for. The actual odds are 0%, because there is no such thing as the Poroshenko government. (He is not the head of government)
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