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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Welp, gently caress. shouldn't 152mm artillery rounds pulverize a building? the pictures make it look like a bunch of kids threw some rocks at the windows.
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Somaen posted:He didn't challenge Putin though, he challenged the military-security block. This is a fight between the different towers of the Kremlin for the remaining sources of money, not because of a challenge to the rotten system itself.
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Nov 15, 2016 19:01
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Fushigi Yuugi fansub posted:shouldn't 152mm artillery rounds pulverize a building? the pictures make it look like a bunch of kids threw some rocks at the windows. Here's a random photo of WW2 152mm shell damage from our very own EE: 
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Fushigi Yuugi fansub posted:shouldn't 152mm artillery rounds pulverize a building? the pictures make it look like a bunch of kids threw some rocks at the windows.
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I'm seeing sandbags in windows so I wonder how much of the school was still being used for that purpose. ]
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:I'm seeing sandbags in windows so I wonder how much of the school was still being used for that purpose. ]
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Who wants some good news? Reforms in Ukraine are being carried out and enjoy some success, albeit woefully insufficient still.
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Tevery Best posted:Who wants some good news?
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Nov 16, 2016 02:44
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Ulyukaev case getting interesting. Putin is deciding about relieving him from duty, while Peskov has said that his arrest is not related to the Bashneft' deal of 2009. The prosecutor appointed to the Ulyukaev's case is the same one who led the case against Navalnyi brothers.
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Nov 16, 2016 10:55
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Definitely some good progress, though the picture on the ground is still not too rosy. I guess this was last year but also there was some improvement on LGBT rights. They should also do something with healthcare (not just procurement) - nominally it's free, but in practice not so much. Has anyone seen any updates about the EU visa free travel? Apparently this just kind of... died out, the last I heard was that there were supposed to be some proposals or discussions in Sept/Oct and then nothing.
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mobby_6kl posted:Definitely some good progress, though the picture on the ground is still not too rosy. I guess this was last year but also there was some improvement on LGBT rights. They should also do something with healthcare (not just procurement) - nominally it's free, but in practice not so much.
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Fushigi Yuugi fansub posted:shouldn't 152mm artillery rounds pulverize a building? the pictures make it look like a bunch of kids threw some rocks at the windows.
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Nov 16, 2016 11:19
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 Estonian company Raihan Group is organising direct bus trips from Tallin to Latvian alcohol shops in Valka and Ainaži.
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alex314 posted:Trump victory has done a number on polish currency: within days USD-PLN went from 3,90 to 4,10. It's not like I wanted to buy any of those fancy-schmancy electronic gadgets for christmas.. loving hell. I wanted to buy a watch on ebay.  Should have pulled the trigger when I first saw it
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Nov 16, 2016 11:30
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
When my unit returned from a military exercise in Lithuania we had to dress up in civvies. I figured it was for some super secret operational secrecy reasons, but the actual reason... : ) It helped that we were traveling with our own bus and not a truck.
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Nov 16, 2016 11:54
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 Ulyukaev got fired by Putin.
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Does Estonia have super-high alcohol tax or something?
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In Czech Republic some idiots proposed to make defamation of president a crime. Similar nonsense to artificially increase "dignity" of a state institution was proposed in Slovak Republic, where ruling coalition wants to limit maximum time of MPs speeches in the plenary debate and prohibit use of audio, video and audio-video equipment in debates. Which is according to the president unconstitutional bullying. I guess some people believe that respect for political institutions can be improved by prohibiting disprespect, because not being vulgar kleptomaniacs is too hard. Dwesa fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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^^^ Unsurprisingly, those idiots were mainly the commies: KSČM: 27 for (82% of them) ANO: 15 for (32%) ČSSD: 15 for (30%) Úsvit: 7 for (50%) steinrokkan posted:Does Estonia have super-high alcohol tax or something? cinci zoo sniper posted:EU backed the visa-free travel agreement in the end of September, so now all the states need to agree on the details. The major slowdown hides in the killswitch desired by France and Germany, nobody can quite agree about some nebulous mechanism to somehow to some extent restrict visa-free travel in the event of sharp immigration increase. That is what has killed visa-free travel for Georgia as well.
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steinrokkan posted:Does Estonia have super-high alcohol tax or something?
**Our law differentiates between <=15% and 15<x<=22%, 82 EUR for the former, and 135 EUR for the latter. Hence, Estonians frequently shop for alcohol in Latvia. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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mobby_6kl posted:
I'm pretty sure it won't go up any more now. Though it's still cheaper than in Nordics, they will save even more money now by traveling to Latvian border.
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mobby_6kl posted:Thanks! Is there a convenient way to track progress on this and other issues EU is working on? With all the emphasis on transparency there has to be some official page for this stuff, but I usually end up finding just random articles that you don't know if they're representing the latest situation or not. There you can also find the immigration kill switch bit: quote:The decision to grant the visa free regime to Ukraine should not be postponed until the establishment of the monitoring mechanism. The visa free regime should be granted now, however, with a reservation that the suspension mechanism will be automatically introduced as soon as its modalities are elaborated. But you'll still have to go to news to find out that it's German/French pressure to do so, or to generally find out about these things without reading mountains of pampered legal boilerplate.
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mobby_6kl posted:They do now, apparently! All the real Nordic countries used to go there to stock up on cheap booze but they started increasing the taxes starting in 2015 IIRC. Isn't Estonia the country that so desperately wishes to join the Nordic countries club?
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jonnypeh posted:The previous government planned to increase alcohol excises every year. I guess that's one reason why they are previous : ) getting cheap vodka just becomes too time consuming if we have to first take a ferry to Tallinn and then a bus to Latvia this is the reason why we need the Helsinki-Tallinn bullet train tunnel
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Torrannor posted:Isn't Estonia the country that so desperately wishes to join the Nordic countries club? Edit: In other news, Russian parliament has accepted regulation to fine MPs for poor attendance. 1/6th of [monthly] salary per a missed session. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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Sorry but when your country's name is literally "East-onia", you can't avoid being an Eastern country. Try rebranding yourself as Nordonia and we'll talk.
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Don't fret, soon it's gonna be Lower St. Petersburgia
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Pierogi posted:Don't fret, soon it's gonna be Lower St. Petersburgia I'm over here bashing the fash and now the commies are coming fuckin' 'ell
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dex_sda posted:I'm over here bashing the fash and now the commies are coming fuckin' 'ell Oh no, they're the fash too friend, keep bashing.
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Russia is completely withdrawing from the ICC in The Hague. Looks like the court actually doing its job and investigating Russia's involvement in eastern Ukraine and Georgia in 2008 hurt their feelings, so now they don't want to play anymore. Rumor has it that Russian diplomats left an upper-decker in the toilet, when they left. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/16/russia-withdraws-signature-from-iccs-founding-statute/
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 Ulyukaev scandal might escalate into arrest of Dvorkovich.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Yes, fringe Eastern European nations such as Baltics, Poland, or Czech Republic, are desperately seeking to reform the popular perception about them by not being labelled as Eastern European. I always thought that at least Poland and the Czech Republic belong to Central Europe together with us here in Germany (and Austria and Switzerland).
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Hmmm, Yes Poland definitely belongs with Germany.
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Torrannor posted:I always thought that at least Poland and the Czech Republic belong to Central Europe together with us here in Germany (and Austria and Switzerland). Geographically we're central Europe, but politically and culturally we're very much EE. Our democracy is still unstable and underdeveloped and our values are much closer to Russia's than Germany's (unfortunately). The Czechs I think are much closer to Germany than we are (they don't seem to freak out nearly as much about gay people, secularism, feminism, etc..) so maybe you can have them. 
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Yeah that Czech Republic bit was mostly to tease Czech posters a bit, I remember having somewhat fierce discussions on this some time ago. Central Euorpe is basically just Czech Republic. Maybe Slovenia too, but is slightly stretching it I think.
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Really only sense in which Central Europe makes sense is as the German-influenced area. The Czech Republic has much more culturally common with Bavaria or Austria than with Russia - as for Poland, I will defer to Pale Horse's judgment, but it's interesting that since the Polish nation has been relocated West of its original territory, it is undeniably occupying land that has material history tied to Germany and the Habsburgs.
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Torrannor posted:I always thought that at least Poland and the Czech Republic belong to Central Europe together with us here in Germany (and Austria and Switzerland). cinci zoo sniper posted:Yeah that Czech Republic bit was mostly to tease Czech posters a bit, I remember having somewhat fierce discussions on this some time ago. Central Euorpe is basically just Czech Republic. Maybe Slovenia too, but is slightly stretching it I think. Gobbeldygook fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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lol Czechia sounds like the Czech Republic's little sister or something
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Gobbeldygook posted:I was about to ask why you two why you keep calling it the Czech Republic but Czechia hasn't caught on there either..
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