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OddObserver posted:Bonus points for mention of "lack of alternatives" on one year anniversary of the Nemtsov assassination. From what I hear, Nemtsov was a pretty crappy alternative even before he got capped. Being a major presence in the dramatically corrupt, dissident-murdering, economy-mauling Yeltsin government didn't win him many friends (of course, Putin's government does the exact same things, but an alternative is generally supposed to be better).
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Liberal_L33t posted:What the gently caress kind of mental gymnastics do you have to put yourself through to come to this conclusion? More to the point, what part of this attack would ISIS (which has loudly and explicitly called for Muslims in the west to carry out independent, unplanned terrorist attacks, I.E. without contacting a group or supporters) disapprove of? Please re-read the details of the case and take your particular flavour of Islamophobic batshit back to the Middle East thread. No, wait, we don't want you there either.
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sparatuvs posted:A lot of focus on Ukraine in recent days has been on the trial of Savchenko, where the guilty verdict is expected any minute now, but fighting around Donetsk drags on. Most of the fighting has been taking place in Avdiyivka, a Ukrainian-held industrial suburb immediately to the north-west of Donetsk city, known for its production of coke and other coal products. The attacks so far have been extremely unorganized and pro-Ukrainian sources have indicated this as a general disillusion in the separatist ranks. Probably the most telling incident is when a separatist approached Ukrainian lines to attempt to surrender, only to be shot and killed, allegedly, by his CO. Despite this, the separatists haven't completely lost resolve, two days ago an officer's vehicle was hit by an ATGM killing 5. We're approaching 2 years of hostility, it's pretty depressing that despite all the international effort, the conflict remains active. What do we know about the Savchenko case? Is it a total show-trial, or do they have any vaguely plausible dirt on her?
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Wonder what might result in an art critic getting iced?
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Nitrox posted:A half-assed police investigation and nothing else Think you misread the sentence order there. Unless Russian police incompetence is getting really exotic.
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Regardless of the politics and nationality of the perpetrators, I cannot support kitten grenading. Unless the kitten was a real rear end in a top hat.
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Discendo Vox posted:Could someone give me a rundown on Uzbekistan's current political status? I'm particularly ignorant of that country's setting and background. The last Stalinist state. Fill in the blanks from there.
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Sandweed posted:Trump will just use the position to build his brand, Pence will do all the actual presidenting. ... whenever someone hasn't pissed Trump off enough to make him devote all of the resources of the most powerful nation on Earth to squashing them like a bug. Foreign policy is going to get... interesting.
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Anyone know anything about Gordon Hahn? Dude keeps getting name-checked by pro-Russian posters.
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Rincewinds posted:It's not at all funny, because thousands of women are killed by domestic violence in Russia. Do we have a more direct source on that? Because according to the UN, there were only 13,120 murders (of any variety) in Russia in 2012. Even by the standards of Russian statistics, that seems like an unusual discrepancy.
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Warbadger posted:I read the comic this is based on and Zhukov definitely was not negatively portrayed. Dude just wanted Stalin's rear end in a top hat son brought to justice and a bunch of innocent Red Army guys released from the gulags. He even gets rid of Beria. Yeah, in the film, he’s not perfect (little bit brutish, little bit compromised by the dictatorship he works for), but he’s far and away the most conventionally cool, badass character in the story. I mean, it’s kind of played for comedy, but in a ‘ha ha but no seriously, this dude is pretty awesome’ way.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:^^^or that More like ‘subvert assassin, publicise death, wait for money to arrive in assassin’s account, track money’.
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May 30, 2018 16:27
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Nenonen posted:I don't buy the story. Not saying that it is false, but there is nothing to back it up and it sounds more like a cheap publicity stunt. What were they thinking??? Huh? What do you mean, ‘nothing to back it up’? You think they just randomly decided to arrest those people?
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HorrificExistence posted:Looks like another chemical attack in England. This would definitely start a war before nuclear weapons were invented. It's interesting to see how far NATO is willing to be pushed around now that its been weakened by trump. It doesn’t look like an attack, exactly - the evidence so far seems to suggest that someone flubbed dumping their spare novichok supplies and injured some random locals while the folks who poisoned the Skripals were trying to use the World Cup as cover to return to Russia.
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Brown Moses posted:Well the Russian Mission to the UN took the opportunity on the 4th anniversary of MH17 being shot down to yet again accuse Bellingcat of using fake evidence: The position of your name on that influence penis is very thematically appropriate.
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steinrokkan posted:So the G spot is located about a foot and a half above and slightly to the right of the head, gotch ‘Splains why it’s so hard to find for some folks.
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Might just be a coincidence, but funny it happened around the same time as this story broke, given Manafort’s connections to Russophile Ukrainians: https://twitter.com/bpolitics/status/1035586036896858113?s=21
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Didn’t the Skripal passport thing require some non-publicly-accessible data, though? Or are Aeroflot flight manifests public? Legit question.
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Scaramouche posted:How's he even there? I thought they expelled a bunch of staff 'Expelling diplomats' is code for 'we are not letting your intelligence operatives work openly in this country any more'. You kick out the people you know to be spies and leave the actual people who handle diplomacy. It's a way milder measure than the headlines might suggest.
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Baronjutter posted:Ukraine shouldn't have given up its nukes no matter what anyone said. IIRC, wasn't most of the necessary (and very expensive and in neeed of extensive renovation) infrastructure for maintaining those back in Russia?
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AceRimmer posted:OK how about people's experiences with Cold War civil defense stuff in Eastern Europe, instead of Clancy chat? What's the bottom one? Kaiju attack?
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Oh look what fun news. President of Gdansk has just been stabbed in the chest during celebrations related to the biggest yearly charity drive in Poland. They're operating on him now. What's the context on this - where does he stand politically and what will the likely fallout be?
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OddObserver posted:Wait, what? Here you go.
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Speaking of Ukraine, this story is a wild ride. The Russian government ran an assassination program there that turned out to have very little to do with the Donbass war.
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So, what caused this particular rigged election to open the floodgates? Mishandling of COVID? The economy going to pot? There's usually something inciting this kind of collapse of such a long-lasting regime.
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Rinkles posted:Maybe this is a secondary concern at this moment, but I'm seeing very few masks in the protest footage We have plenty of evidence from around the world that outdoor protest marches don't actually do much to COVID-19 numbers. It's indoor gatherings that are the biggest drivers.
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