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Mokotow posted:To no-one’s surprise, Navalny is badly ill and his lawyers can’t get to him For gently caress's sake
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Mokotow posted:To no-one’s surprise, Navalny is badly ill and his lawyers can’t get to him  jonnypeh posted:https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea
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I think my optimism is finally dead. Or rather it's in deep hibernation again along with Belarusian protests. Tikhanovskaya's team urged people to get back to the streets, but first nothing notable happened on March 25 (Freedom Day), and then nothing happened again today. 750,000 voted in telegram and viber in support of Tikhanovskaya's plan for negotiations with the regime, but clearly those numbers didn't translate into any meaningful street activity. In those two days the police still have arrested several hundred people, but they just basically plucked random passer-by one by one, targeted journalists, or arrested activists at their own homes. They clearly spend a lot of time on monitoring telegram channels and whatnot. If in the first days of the protest the protesters were way ahead of the police in organising large quantities of people, now it's practically impossible to organise even a tiny local march without the police either arresting everyone on the spot, or coming for you later. And they don't even need to prove anything in court. Just yesterday a random guy got 30 days in prison for being in the vicinity of someone launching fireworks (which is now considered an illegal political gathering, of course). The policeman didn't see him do it, there were no other witnesses, but he still was found guilty, because he had telegram installed, and in one of the channels he was a member of someone else simply mentioned fireworks as an idea how to celebrate the Freedom Day. Paladinus fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/serbia-hands-over-remains-of-us-stealth-plane-shot-down-in-1999-zvezda/ sad, to see it go. rip. 
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Doctor Malaver posted:Croatia Show! If it makes you feel any better, the sanest prime minister in all of europe decided to rage quit a debate in the EU parliament, because they wouldn't play his latest anime music video. It's funny, not the first time he has acted out like this, probably not his last. He and his party have realized, that nobody gives a poo poo about anything anymore, so they can just do stuff they pick up from american politics since there aren't any consequences.
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Seems the russians trust the sputnik vaccine less than foreigners do. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-poll-idUSKBN2AT2XK quote:Over 60% of Russians don't want Sputnik V vaccine, see coronavirus as biological weapon: I know that russians don't generally trust their government's honesty, but it still seems quite high.
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I am pretty sure they've been running a lot of propaganda against American vaccines, and, well, I am also pretty sure that a random Russian will actually trust an American-made thing over a Russian-made one. Also underreporting covid deaths by like 6x probably doesn't help public interest. Edit: also Putin refused to answer what vaccine he used.
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OddObserver posted:Edit: also Putin refused to answer what vaccine he used. This one is truly mystifying. It's such an easy PR stunt, and they somehow fumbled it. Just say it was Sputnik, who cares? Unless Putin is secretly dying from the vaccine, and now they're trying to hide which vaccine is the bad one, there is literally no reason not to. The funny thing is, the most vocal proponents of Sputnik vaccines are probably the Russian opposition.
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Paladinus posted:This one is truly mystifying. It's such an easy PR stunt, and they somehow fumbled it. Just say it was Sputnik, who cares? Unless Putin is secretly dying from the vaccine, and now they're trying to hide which vaccine is the bad one, there is literally no reason not to. The funny thing is, the most vocal proponents of Sputnik vaccines are probably the Russian opposition. could be because there are several russian vaccines and he didnt want people to wait to get the same one he did
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Vasukhani posted:could be because there are several russian vaccines and he didnt want people to wait to get the same one he did He still could say it was Sputnik.
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Rincewinds posted:Seems the russians trust the sputnik vaccine less than foreigners do. Well, Putin did spend two decades enforcing and nurturing a conspiratorial mindset in one the largest and most diverse nation-states on the planet. Plus, couldn't have helped how forceful the government was about launching the vaccine early last summer/fall.
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We know how lovely everyone works. Even doctors who work in the covid-field (now) refuse to take sputnik because they do not believe that it has been properly tested for how fast they rolled it out. On the other hand Levada center did a poll among 1600 people. Sample size is too small. I doubt many people who are careful, wear masks and generally evade contacting people on streets will be responding to a poll. From personal experience - all the people who were vaccinated I know of are either WFH or go to work and back by car and generally avoid outside contacts let alone on the street. So IMO numbers indeed are heavily skewed towards careless generic
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Paladinus posted:I think my optimism is finally dead. Or rather it's in deep hibernation again along with Belarusian protests. Tikhanovskaya's team urged people to get back to the streets, but first nothing notable happened on March 25 (Freedom Day), and then nothing happened again today. 750,000 voted in telegram and viber in support of Tikhanovskaya's plan for negotiations with the regime, but clearly those numbers didn't translate into any meaningful street activity. In those two days the police still have arrested several hundred people, but they just basically plucked random passer-by one by one, targeted journalists, or arrested activists at their own homes. I am not so sure about that. Preventing march 25 action was their priority nr 1, they did it and now what? Situation is not defused, they have to be vigilant for next such date or some spontaneous cause. Regime's resources are being spent to keep the lid on street actions ignoring everything else and these resources are not being replenished, they keep being spent. If the grip slips I feel marches will resume as new because: 1. people like it (aside from being beaten) 2. Nothing was done to deal with reasons for protests, if anything there are more reasons now. Also, don't forget about Luka himself, this "revolution" is at least halfway his own doing due to mistakes and decisions he made and he seems to be stuck on that path.
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If Putin has a heart attack and drops dead tomorrow, who is the most likely person to win the inevitable power struggle?
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:If Putin has a heart attack and drops dead tomorrow, who is the most likely person to win the inevitable power struggle? The difficulty of answering that question for literally anyone is, by design, a large part of why Putin hasn’t dropped dead yet.
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Discendo Vox posted:The difficulty of answering that question for literally anyone is, by design, a large part of why Putin hasn’t dropped dead yet. Worked for Stalin. Until it didn't.
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TasogareNoKagi posted:Worked for Stalin. Until it didn't. It completely worked for Stalin
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Unless you think it's suspicious for a 74 year old man to die of a stroke
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Continuity RCP posted:Unless you think it's suspicious for a 74 year old man to die of a stroke Well, he was famously paranoid, stressed and obese so not really.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:If Putin has a heart attack and drops dead tomorrow, who is the most likely person to win the inevitable power struggle? Unknown, there are no political or biological heirs and last year they passed the constitutional changes that let him rule for several more elections, so it pretty much looks like he's intent on living forever, leading Russia to to its historic glory, celebrating the Great Victory day each year. Formally the prime-minister is next in succession who is an apolitical technocrat of the liberal block and the inevitable power struggle will be something. The whole apparatus is built dependent on one guy, there are no independent state institutions and free press is badly repressed as well as the network of liberal parties trying to participate in elections, so if Putin suddenly dies there's a good chance the state can't function, the elections held right after that are a sham and we're back to the situation of post-USSR with criminal gangs supplanting the state or the military taking over to keep the state functional enough to feed them. Gonna be fun In unrelated news, Ukraine continues opening up Soviet archives and making public the information contained there: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/03/29/vsiu-noch-stoish-po-koleno-v-krovi-i-ia-potreboval-otdykha While Russia is closing the 1941-1945 archives (opening them was a decision made in the more liberal 2007) and repressing people trying to find out and publish what happened during the great terror to their relatives or to other innocent people: https://www.currenttime.tv/a/prikaz-shoigu/31167609.html https://www.svoboda.org/a/31175113.html https://www.dw.com/ru/zashhita-jurija-dmitrieva-obzhalovala-ego-prigovor-v-espch/a-57054588?maca=rus-tco-dw The guy in the second link is accused of "Slandering NKVD officers, revealing state secrets, collecting personal information, espionage". I encourage you to perform the mental exercise of imagining this happening in Germany, the state investigating "slandering the gestapo" Somaen fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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MiddleOne posted:Well, he was famously paranoid, stressed and obese so not really. Also regularly getting ridiculously wasted to a degree that the security detail drained the pond at his place so neither he nor the Politburo members he was entertaining drowned.
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Somaen posted:The guy in the second link is accused of "Slandering NKVD officers, revealing state secrets, collecting personal information, espionage". I encourage you to perform the mental exercise of imagining this happening in Germany, the state investigating "slandering the gestapo" The NKVD still totally recieves respect in Russia, they have a very prominent day of the Chekist, and Putin embraces his KGB past.
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Vasukhani posted:The NKVD still totally recieves respect in Russia, they have a very prominent day of the Chekist, and Putin embraces his KGB past.
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People are being jailed here for literally watching Rammstein music videos, what are you talking about  its a full-on police state ofc they are being jailed because they work with Navalny but the official statement is that
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Russia's been mobilizing assets, and it seems likely they want to take a drat Ukraine setup post Crimea annexation https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1377432142867664899?s=20 CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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CommieGIR posted:Russia's been mobilizing assets, and it seems likely they want to take a drat Ukraine setup post Crimea annexation Always skeptical of this stuff, seems to be some bilateral condemnations, however the US haven't recalled citizens yet (which is usually the best indicator of poo poo showing up on sats indicating stuffs about to pop off)
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Unlike 2014, when the Ukrainian army was woefully unprepared for any kind of retaliation, and the shaky provisional government struggled to hold power, I doubt Russia will risk an open confrontation now, when Ukraine has its military already concentrated in the region and 100% aware of Russia's movements. It's likely just another round of sabre-rattling as a response to Ukraine's alleged breaches of cease-fire agreements.
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CommieGIR posted:Russia's been mobilizing assets, and it seems likely they want to take a drat Ukraine setup post Crimea annexation Not to be an idiot here, but wouldn't Ukraine just dam the thing further upstream again? Is the idea that the main river itself is unroutable within a relevant time-frame if you seize the entire canal?
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MiddleOne posted:Not to be an idiot here, but wouldn't Ukraine just dam the thing further upstream again? It appears that plucky little Russia has no option other than to take over the whole country, it's a heavy burden, but one that can't be avoided 
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steinrokkan posted:It appears that plucky little Russia has no option other than to take over the whole country, it's a heavy burden, but one that can't be avoided Pan slavic water republic
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MiddleOne posted:Not to be an idiot here, but wouldn't Ukraine just dam the thing further upstream again? Is the idea that the main river itself is unroutable within a relevant time-frame if you seize the entire canal? The canal draws from Dnieper itself. Damming the Dnieper would be a major feat, but it would also be a major action for Russia to secure the canal junction. At that point Putin might as well take Kyiv.
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"Russia is in right to police it's neighborhood against Yankee imperialism. If Mexico make friend with Russia, KKKUSA imperialists would invade and change regime, too."  Of course, the same folks making the "sphere of interest" argument to defend Russia would vehemently decry that hypothetical US intervention in its own sphere.
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Its even worse because its a "sphere of influence" to defend an illicit annexation.
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I seriously wonder how much brain damage someone needs to have to make the "Guys it's not imperialism it's a sphere of influence" argument.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:I seriously wonder how much brain damage someone needs to have to make the "Guys it's not imperialism it's a sphere of influence" argument. That's why they show down MH17, it was in their sphere of influence
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:I seriously wonder how much brain damage someone needs to have to make the "Guys it's not imperialism it's a sphere of influence" argument. 10 years on twitter.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:I seriously wonder how much brain damage someone needs to have to make the "Guys it's not imperialism it's a sphere of influence" argument. the National Interest ppl say it is imperialism, and thats okay
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Either of the right wing Slavic ethnostates controlling the territory is a crime imo. Kick out the jackbooted Cossack colonizers and give the kirimlar right of return.
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Zedhe Khoja posted:Either of the right wing Slavic ethnostates controlling the territory is a crime imo. Kick out the jackbooted Cossack colonizers and give the kirimlar right of return. Are there any left, after the Soviets, the Germans, and the Soviets again? gently caress it, bring back the North Pontic Greeks!
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