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Mokotow posted:Kind of surprised you guys know Hortex I'd say in Belarus it's pretty much 50/50 between Russian and Polish brands when it comes to frozen vegetables. Poltino is another brand that comes to mind. OddObserver posted:And not nearly enough bread or cereals. (Grechka!) There's also Hawaiian Mix with rice!
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It's important to note that despite posturing, Russia is not a very religious country. Church attendance is roughly on the same level as in Czechia, the most atheist European country. Homophobia in modern Russia is rooted more in the Soviet era anti-bourgeoisie rhetoric and prison culture than in religious fundamentalism. The religious component is more visible because religious groups are more organised than apolitical and barely religious general population. Additionally, Russian government tries to establish the Russian Orthodox Church as kind of an equivalent of modern Church of England or Danish National Church, a primarily cultural institution, where actual religious adherence is not necessarily the top priority.
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Feb 17, 2022 23:39
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I can see how this can bring two people together.
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Feb 22, 2022 16:59
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Somaen posted:Good sign, his allies are starting to abandon him. I hope after this every piece of poo poo politician and propagandist who were Kremlin shills get a financial deep cavity search Waiting for Vučić to chime in.
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Feb 24, 2022 12:37
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Belarusian opposition plan to hold a huge anti-war protest literally in 5 minutes. Smaller protests today next to referendum polling stations (usually schools) were quickly dispersed, activists report ~60 arrested protesters in Minsk so far.
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Feb 27, 2022 14:55
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500-800 protesters arrested in Minsk alone. It's probably the biggest protest in Belarus since August 2020. There is also a considerable uptick in subscribers to opposition and independent news channels in telegram and elsewhere. Just like I didn't expect Putin to wage a full-scale war on Ukraine, I definitely didn't expect the referendum to inspire another wave of protests.
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Feb 27, 2022 18:12
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punk rebel ecks posted:Thanks. There is basically no independent sociology in Belarus. It's literally illegal to poll on any political questions without a special governmental certification, and guess what, only extremely pro-Lukashenko polling agencies pass that criteria. What data could be gathered illegally is not very precise. Chatham House, for example, only had access to people over Viber and only to those who live in cities. But the few polls that are out there indicated Lukashenko's support at 20-35% back in 2021 (compared to Tsikhanouskaya's 55-65%). If that number increased lately (huge if), it's only because thousands of Lukashenko's opponents have left the country.
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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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cinci zoo sniper posted:Latvian phonetics enrage me, because not only we do bunch of annoying sound substitutions, but also you must make sure you have gender-correct name endings. Some examples Any language that uses Latin alphabet should just keep all names from other languages with the same script as is. Like Polish.
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Emil Czeczko, the Polish defector who claimed to participate in mass executions of immigrants during the crisis on Belarusian-Polish border, was found hanged in his Minsk flat.
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Mokotow posted:Everyone on Twitter assumes murder, but honestly, dude was known by family and friends to be super unstable, which led to him defecting in the first place. The last time he made a public statement, it was about Polish neo-nazis allegedly fighting for Ukraine in the war, which he definitely didn't have any special insight into. It was increasingly obvious that he'd served his purpose, didn't really make any impression on anyone, and essentially wrongly accused himself of unspeakable crimes for nothing. Depression here is a given, and psychotherapy is not exactly something I'd expect Belarusian secret services to provide in this situation. However, if he was murdered, Protasevich should probably be worried. Paladinus fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:so there was some joke image about russians adopting the "Z" sign as a pro-war thing because nazis are too incompetent to draw a swastika and well, love finds a way It's a photoshop.
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SlowBloke posted:Didn't they also made it mandatory for voting to be online/digital? Meaning that they can game the results however they like? It's not going to be mandatory. But all workers, civil servants, and military personnel will be 'strongly encouraged' to vote online by their bosses, who will be encouraged to encourage their subordinates with nicely worded emails from the Kremlin.
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:holy poo poo, they finally killed novaya gazeta https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/03/28/my-priostanavlivaem-rabotu This is from Feb 25.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!
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Belarus is understandably not the hottest news topic right now, but the Investigative Committee of Belarus just published a pretty sobering piece of data. Apparently 'only 5-6%' of all criminal offences in Belarus are on extremism charges. https://www.belta.by/society/view/sk-dela-ob-ekstremizme-sostavljajut-ne-bolee-5-6-ot-obschego-chisla-prestuplenij-496830-2022/ That doesn't take into account non-criminal offences such as forwarding someone a weather report from one of now hundreds of telegram channels that are considered extremist, or criminal offences of non-extremist nature, such as offending the president or a government official by sending them a poop emoji on twitter.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I wonder how that stacks up against more democratic countries. Cursory google search seems to indicate that the numbers are so low in other countries, you only see news about a group of 5-10 far right activists or Muslim extremists arrested once in a while. But I would also like to see actual stats, if someone has them.
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Sekenr posted:Belarus just approved death penalty for attempts at terrorism which now includes rail sabotage It's still just a bill, but there is a good chance it may become a law.
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FishBulbia posted:Do we have any Georgians? I'm ending up in the land of the Golden fleece for a bit. I only speak English and Russian, so it's going to be interesting to see how their ESL is there as I don't wanna get stabbed to death and don't know how well I can pick up the martian dialect of sumerian. Will post khachapuri I have a couple of friends from Belarus who currently live in Georgia. Literally zero issues so far. One saw a group of Russians who behaved like poo poo at a store, and the owner refused to speak anything bug Georgian with them, but that's about it.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://twitter.com/kevinrothrock/status/1523626962412965888 His post today about it was something else. I've also just noticed that he's wearing a blue jacket next to her in yellow. I wonder if it's intentional. Hope he doesn't suddenly 'commit suicide' like the Polish border guard deserter some time ago.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/neplp-aizliedz-latvija-raidit-visus-krievija-registretos-tv-kanalus.a460234/ All TV stations registered in Russia, to be precise. TV Rain (До///дь) will broadcast from Latvia now. A great substitute.
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CMYK BLYAT! posted:kazakh dude in a tank top, man bun, and pixelated hitler mustache sure is an aesthetic The photo is from Mongolia, and I suspect the original tweet might be a joke. Is there a video?
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It's literally how it is on the original album cover.
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FishBulbia posted:https://twitter.com/ia_panorama/status/1539212657500123136 Lol, just as I suspected.
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The new constitution would remove their right to secede. Interestingly, a fair amount of Russian and Belarusian IT specialists have moved to Uzbekistan.
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I've tried Uzbek plov made in a real kazan and in a cast iron pot, and both were great.
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Who are these constitution defenders? Is this still about vaccines?
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Doctor Malaver posted:Yeah, I think I understand. For me it's the 90's. Someone recently recommended a Serbian movie to me saying that it portrayed the 90's perfectly. I was like, that's a great argument for me not to watch it. A Serbian movie or A Serbian Movie? Right decision regardless, most likely.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:lmao @ the real estate bro I only understood 'vatnik', but I can guess the rest.
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FSB denies that Russian soldiers were injured in the attack, suspiciously not commenting on whether they were attacked at all or not.
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You should probably add some kind of explanation of the whole non-citizen thing to the first post. It pops up in some programmes, but if you're not familiar with the term, it may look like it's about immigrants.
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This raises a question about what kind of PR does China have there. I think there was a Serbian billboard with 'Thank you brother Xi' or something like that.
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Is this really the official account of their embassy in Moldova?
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At least he'll be out in seven years. Surely.
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Some novel economic regulations will being tested in Belarus. On today's cabinet meeting, Lukashenko was extremely angry, shouted at ministers, and blamed them for high inflation rates and rising cost of living. 'Right off the field, I have to go and ask for gas and oil, and for loans, and then also run to the shops and control the prices? So what the bloody hell do I need you lot for then?!' As a solution, Lukashenko ordered to prohibit all price hikes, on all products and services. Even his PM Roman Golovchenko tried to cool things off a bit. 'You can have every aspect regulated and overregulated to a T and still get the opposite effect. [...] In Belarus, price regulation is already the toughest in the CIS and one of the toughest in the world.' Lukashenko didn't want to listen. 'Roman Alexandrovich, let me remind you. You are the Prime Minister of Belarus, not Estonia. Fortunately. And not Latvia or Lithuania. Why should we pay any attention to them?' As a result, now it's illegal to raise prices without a special approval from the government full stop. Not even if you had something on sale and want to go back to the original price. The Committee of State Control already promise criminal charges for the offenders.
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Paladinus posted:As a solution, Lukashenko ordered to prohibit all price hikes, on all products and services. A little follow-up on this. After arresting about a dozen of store owners for the crime of raising prices, the decision was deemed to have always been temporary, and a new law is now in place. It limits price hikes only on specific* goods, mostly food, for all manufacturers, distributors, and local stores. Compared to the original blanket ban, restaurants, for example, can now raise prices freely, apart from the cases where they ship their food to stores. The rest will have to approve prices with local governmental committees. The last two weeks were extremely chaotic, some imported goods had to be pulled off the shelves to avoid large losses, and now at least they seem to be back in all their unregulated glory. The law is still not very realistic and supply issues with imported goods, especially fruits and veg, whose price is seasonal, are unavoidable, unless they change things up again after another dozen of criminal cases. *The list is actually fairly vague, and not even officials can answer some very basic questions. At the press conference with business representatives, someone asked if a salad grown from different seeds can be considered a new product with its own price or has to be sold at the same price as a salad that's already in store, and the official just waffled for two minutes about how all salads are essentially the same in response, and suggested to send the question in later in writing. There is also little clarity on how the price should be set when two shipments of the same item can have different prices. Officials say they should be sold at the lowest price, but there is nothing in the law to stipulate this.
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busalover posted:I just finished Adam Curtis' Traumazone, a look at the transition from communism to capitalism in Russia. It ends with the introduction of Putin in 1999, so my question is, is there a documentary out there that charts Putin's ascent at the beginning of the millenium? Putin’s Witnesses is a good one. It starts right on the New Year's Eve and mostly consists of the footage filmed at the time, so it should continue seamlessly from where Traumazone left off.
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FishBulbia posted:https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1591146744196526080 They also had flags with LGBT crossed out, but surprisingly no rainbow flags.
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Paladinus posted:Meanwhile Russia continues its spiritual war against decadent Western values through legislating. The new law that aims to extend ban on LGBTQ+ propaganda to all people, not just children, now also touches on the cesspit that is gaming. The following games are proposed to be banned in Russia: A follow-up on this. The legislative package has passed second reading, but the amendment on video games has been inexplicably axed. It will 'only' regulate the internet, mass media, books, audio and video content, movies, and advertising. Regular citizens can now be fined for up to ~$5k for LGBT propaganda, and ~$3k for propaganda of 'sex change' aimed at minors. It also not-so-subtly includes fines for propaganda of paedophilia (up to ~$10k). Tomorrow is its third reading, and it will probably pass, considering 390 Duma members, including all faction leaders, worked on it in some capacity. E: Yep, passed. Paladinus fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Nov 24, 2022 |
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