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Xerxes17 posted:https://twitter.com/Den_2042/status/1500074642865852421 That's quite the charge, but if they had listened in to telephone calls as the article alleges, they were probably on firm ground. I have no further insight, but luckily our thread IK knows these things. Thanks, cinci zoo sniper. But if he's connected to Yanukovych, I wonder why he was part of the negotiation team in the first place? Edit: Page snipe, here's the answer to the question: cinci zoo sniper posted:Supposedly connected to Yanukovych via small-time oligarchs of his era.
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No idea what they have on him but shooting your own negotiators isn't a great look  Doctor Malaver posted:It was in support of Russia, not war itself. There were hundreds of people, maybe a thousand or two.
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mobby_6kl posted:No idea what they have on him but shooting your own negotiators isn't a great look I imagine it was a “you’ll never take me alive, nazis!” type of situation
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mobby_6kl posted:Isn't that the same thing? Or is that like pro-russia but only in concept and unrelated to current events? Obviously it has to be related, but most of the rhetoric was how Serbs and Russians are brothers, no to sanctions against Russia, etc. They did chant "Kosovo is Serbia, Crimea is Russia", not sure how the logic behind that works.
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Walking around downtown Warsaw today, the number of Ukrainians on the street is insane. It’s mostly teens and young people, acquainting with a new place. And then, just like a second ago on the subway, you’ll see them sitting on a bench crying.
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Mokotow posted:Walking around downtown Warsaw today, the number of Ukrainians on the street is insane. It’s mostly teens and young people, acquainting with a new place. And then, just like a second ago on the subway, you’ll see them sitting on a bench crying. That's not at all unexpected, and still heartbreaking  You drove some Ukrainians from the border, didn't you? What language did you use to communicate?
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Torrannor posted:That's not at all unexpected, and still heartbreaking Google translate mostly. One of the younger girls seemed to also understand a lot of Polish. I also called their older sister in Warsaw and she’d translate whatever I said on the car speaker system. I was actually surprised how hard it was to understand Ukrainian for me.
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quarantinethepast posted:I get the impression that in Eastern Europe, classical music is still quite popular, moreso than in the rest of Europe/the Americas. Are there living composers that create their own modern compositions today as well, or is mostly just still playing the great masters Tchaikovsky, Beethoven etc.? Framing the question a different way, does Eastern Europe have its own Philip Glass or Max Richter? Maybe Arvo Pärt? quote:"From 2011 to 2018, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world.
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Ataxerxes posted:The street the Russian embassy in Finland sits on is called Factory Street (Tehtaankatu). There have been proposals to change it to Zelensky Street or, less seriously, Trollfactory Street. Just name it Ikiriidantie, it'll always be correct.
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We’re going to be having small social welfare crisis this month it seems, as the government is only now reacting to the situation with 11 thousand Latvian pensioners, who are used to receiving a pension from Russia. The government says that they have some plans for this situation, but it does appear that all plans involve letting pensioners with military pensions to starve. https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/somenes-11-tukstosiem-senioru-latvija-krievijas-pensijas-bus-par-nakotni--neskaidriba.a446806/ Edit: https://twitter.com/esesmutuesmues/status/1500839918498627587 cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Mar 8, 2022 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:We’re going to be having small social welfare crisis this month it seems, as the government is only now reacting to the situation with 11 thousand Latvian pensioners, who are used to receiving a pension from Russia. The government says that they have some plans for this situation, but it does appear that all plans involve letting pensioners with military pensions to starve. Wow, I wonder if we'll have a similar problem here in Estonia too (I haven't heard anything nor could I find anything by Googling) Some 500 pensioners had their home delivery delayed by a few days a couple of weeks ago, which received quite a lot of media coverage (also: totally unrelated)
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https://twitter.com/marcobreso/status/1501201298762485761?s=20&t=almFKLnOtjxbs5RBNwrrAw Sometimes this country is more bearable.
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Mokotow posted:https://twitter.com/marcobreso/status/1501201298762485761?s=20&t=almFKLnOtjxbs5RBNwrrAw Shame he wasn't greeted with a brick to the face, it would have made my day
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A nice video with English subs about the friendship of the Hungarian government/Orban with Russia/Putin. It also explains the current government propaganda, how they claim the opposition (just before the elections) wants to send soldiers to Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNuG2AASnuk
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Ziemkiewicz on refugees from a country that's forbidden men from leaving "a lot of them are going to be bandits. Some of them even terrorists trying to instigate a provocation" i loving hate people
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I hate Ziemkiewicz*. But let’s not forget his greatest day when he decided to send his daughter to the capital of western debauchery, the UK, and was denied entry and deported for extremism while he was taking her there to begin her studies. * like many, Ziemkiewicz started out as a Sci-fi writer and evolved into a turbo racist shitheel “journalist”.
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So, due to the invasion there’s a massive surge of interest in joining our national guard. Turns out there’s literally 1 psychologist and 1 narcologist in Riga who can issue the respective judgments for the medical commission, so there’s a multi-month queue for them (Tvaika ielā, kam interesanti).
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Mokotow posted:https://twitter.com/marcobreso/status/1501201298762485761?s=20&t=almFKLnOtjxbs5RBNwrrAw As an Italian: THANKS. I'll pour one for the mayor this evening. What's his name?
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Omobono posted:As an Italian: Wojciech Bakun. Joining the hate train for Ziemkiewicz. Also not idea why fantasy writers in this weird country have 50/50 chance of ending up radical right. See also Piekara and Komuda. At least Sapkowski seem to be ok.
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alex314 posted:Wojciech Bakun. I don’t know about Sapkowski’s politics, but he’s far from the nicest person.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I don’t know about Sapkowski’s politics, but he’s far from the nicest person. He comes off as a massive dick but AFAIK he hasn’t penned a 10.000 word essay about why the Roma should be burned on a stake to maintain racial purity or something to that effect, which already makes him more liberal than many Polish sci-fi / fantasy writers.
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AFAIK he's an rear end in a top hat of the Harlan Ellison sort, which is actually cool and good
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I think the only halfway visible Latvian sci-fi writer is a finance bro who runs a 2nd pillar pension fund and promotes financial literacy. No political affiliation, afaik. Politically active writers are generally not into speculative fiction over here.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I don’t know about Sapkowski’s politics, but he’s far from the nicest person. He was okay with black actors in the Netflix show, while a lot of his Polish fans were throwing a fit about it. So there's that at least.
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Paladinus posted:He was okay with black actors in the Netflix show, while a lot of his Polish fans were throwing a fit about it. So there's that at least. Oh yeah I’m not implying he’s a racist or something. I’ve seen some interviews with him, and he’s always really mad or with Important Opinions about something. The kind of guy I’d expect to flip off at a McDonalds drivethrough cashier.
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Are Latvian and Lithuanian mutually intelligible languages? Are Latvians and Lithuanians culturally closer to each other than to Estonians due to their language? I've heard that Lithuanian is a particularly "conservative" Indo-European language that preserves a lot of features of proto-Indo-European. Is Kaliningrad considered "Baltic"? America Inc. fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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quarantinethepast posted:Are Latvian and Lithuanian mutually intelligible languages? Are Latvians and Lithuanians culturally closer to each other than to Estonians due to their language? I've heard that Lithuanian is a particularly "conservative" Indo-European language that preserves a lot of features of proto-Indo-European. Latvian and Lithuanian are not mutually intelligible right away, but if you’re a native speaker of one, you can likely go fluent (like, straight up C1) in the other one in 2, 3 years maximum. Maybe 1-2 years if you’re a native Latgalian speaker like I am, which will be a bit closer to Lithuanian than “High Latvian”. Latvians and Lithuanians are a bit close culturally than, say, Lithuanians and Estonians, but that’s more of a function of geography than language, since all 3 states historically have shared the occupiers for long periods of time. Kaliningrad is not considered Baltic, no. Not even by Russians. It is its own thing.
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The original (well, the medieval ones) inhabitants of Kaliningrad/Prussia were gone a long time ago, eventually replaced by Germans, now replaced by Russians (and Poles and I believe some Ukrainians on the Poland half); so there's not much Baltic language there.
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This might be a dumb question, but how come the Latvian and Estonian capitals are on the coast but Lithuania’s is inland? I had thought it would have been on the coast given the importance of the Baltic Sea with trade. Is there a political / historical reason or is it just one of those things?
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Mr. Apollo posted:This might be a dumb question, but how come the Latvian and Estonian capitals are on the coast but Lithuania’s is inland? I had thought it would have been on the coast given the importance of the Baltic Sea with trade. Is there a political / historical reason or is it just one of those things? It’s Lithuania’s historical capital. It will turn 800 next year. Much like other Baltic capitals, it’s roughly where a hefty chunk of ancient Balts had their settlements.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:It’s Lithuania’s historical capital. It will turn 800 next year. Much like other Baltic capitals, it’s roughly where a hefty chunk of ancient Balts had their settlements.
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Where is the grechka recipe?
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Yeah, also want one. We had that in Poland once in a while, but it was not my preferred thing to eat. I'm surprised it's so popular in Russia/former USSR.
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Goddammit, I was about to go to bed. I make this one at least once per month: https://natashaskitchen.com/buckwheat-and-beef-pilaf-plov/ It's a plov, but made from buckwheat. Roasting the buckwheat first is key, as is cumin. Edit: I have also substituted pork for beef several times and may even prefer it that way.
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Buckwheat owns I skip the toasting step but pan fry them for a bit with a hefty amount of butter, garlic, cumin and chili powder/cayenne.
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My buckwheat, Mostly I just stick it in the rice cooker. Super lazy but good !ix with some grilled chicken breasts
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:Where is the grechka recipe? take groats, add water, heat imo the non-toasted variety tastes much better, idk why toasted became the default. then again, baked milk is also a thing, so maybe the region is just like "BAKE EVERYTHING" when it comes to food
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a podcast for cats posted:I make this one at least once per month: fake edit: lmao that I have the exact brand of kasha in my pantry that's linked in the recipe
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a podcast for cats posted:Goddammit, I was about to go to bed. That looks actually interesting, cheers! Speaking of toasted buckwheat - I remember back in the day my dad used to boil buckwheat, then sear it in sour cream with some meat. That’s probably more greasy than I remember it being, but it was one of my favourite things. Edit: https://twitter.com/edgarsrinkevics/status/1501937741998661643 cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Mar 11, 2022 |
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