Russia

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Well, dunno. I'm sure there are parts of Romania that match the worst of Russia. I haven't really been to much of Romania. Have you watched "Dupa Dealuri"?

Ugh, no. I remember the Tanacu case from back then, though. It was a pretty big scandal.

[Typhoon]

Top picture: Chelyabinsk before the meteor shower.
Bottom picture: Chelyabinsk after the meteor shower.

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Top picture: Chelyabinsk before the meteor shower.
Bottom picture: Chelyabinsk after the meteor shower.

Thank You VERY Much for your post, Typhoon.

[Azrael]

How Russia And The United States Have Fared Since The Great Recession

Mark Adomanis -- Forbes

[YMix]

Russia sees US’s decision to cancel 4th stage of ABM in Europe only as delay

Russia sees the US’s decision to cancel the fourth stage of its anti-missile system in Europe (the so-called European Phased Adaptive Approach) as a technical delay and not as a principal decision. Once the US financial situation improves and counter missiles are technically perfect, this “break” will be over and the US counter-missiles will be deployed in Europe.

On March 15, the US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that the US had decided to freeze the deployment of its interceptors in Poland. Instead it plans to deploy 14 heavy counter-missiles in Alaska and to set one more radar station in Japan by 2017. Washington is also working on the deployment of silo based counter missiles in the East of the US.

In an interview with the Kommesant daily Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that Moscow did not consider Washington’s decision to cancel the fourth stage of its anti-missile system in Europe as a concession and does not see any principle changes in the US position in ABM. Most Russian experts agree with him. If such an approach meant that the US gave up its plans Moscow would welcome it. But this is out of the question, Pavel Zolotarev Deputy head of Russia’s Institute of the US and Canada, says.

"This approach does not mean that the US gave up the idea of deploying counter-missiles in Poland. That is why we should not overestimate Washington’s decision. Currently the US is experiencing economic problems. Washington’s European Phased Adaptive Approach implies that interceptors will be deployed once the Iranian threat emerges. So there are no serious changes in the position."

Moscow thinks that the US has to adjust its plans on ABM in Europe due to the reduction of the Pentagon’s budget by $45 billion. Also the systems the US wanted to deploy in Europe are yet to be improved, Vladimir Yevseev, head of the center of political studies, says.

"As soon as financial problems are solved and the systems are technically perfect the US will get down to the implementation of the plans it announced earlier. Now it concerns only a delay in implementation which does not provide the guarantees Russia is insisting on. Russia considers it a postponement and if so – why should Russia make any concessions to the US?"

Sergey Ryabkov and Deputy State Secretary Rose Gottemoeller are to meet on Monday or on Tuesday in Geneva. It is very likely that they will touch upon this issue. In the current situation we should not expect any new breakthrough in disarmament, Yevseev says.

"Russia’s position is the following – In 2010 Russia and the US signed a new strategic arms reduction treaty in Prague and it is necessary first of all to implement it. Since the moment the agreement was signed it will take 7 years to implement it. Why should we sign a new treaty now?"

Moscow is ready to continue the dialogue on disarmament with the US but it will also continue to insist on signing judicial binding agreements which guarantee that the US anti-missile system is not targeted against Russian strategic nuclear forces.

[Heracleum Persicum]

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Russia Becoming the Savior of Europe

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"This situation presents a fantastic opportunity for Russia and even President Putin to take moral high ground and to extend another loan to Cyprus and to become a savior of Europe," Tchakarov told CNBC in Moscow on Wednesday.

"From now on, Russia will play a pivotal part in negotiations, the mistake [to leave Russia out] before has been corrected for the moment," he said, adding that Russia had a vested interest in helping Cyprus too.

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[YMix]

You mean a fantastic opportunity to seize control of the Cyprus gas deposits in exchange for a loan.

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You mean a fantastic opportunity to seize control of the Cyprus gas deposits in exchange for a loan.

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Finance Minister Michael Sarris said that natural gas reserves from offshore fields surrounding Cyprus that have yet to be developed could be offered as part of the agreement.

Cyprus and Russia resumed talks Thursday to strike a deal that could include cooperation on banking and natural gas reserves . .

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Telegraph | Russia accuses Poland of starting Second World War

Russia has accused Poland of provoking the outbreak of the Second World War by refusing to accede to the "very modest" demands of Nazi Germany.

Under planned legislation, backed by Mr Medvedev, any Russian or foreigner who claims that the Soviet Union occupied Poland or the Baltic States could face up to five years in prison.

[Heracleum Persicum]

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Telegraph | Russia accuses Poland of starting Second World War


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Russia adapting western logic .. "CIA and Jihadi" wiping out a whole Syrian Christian village and secular Syrians .. Russian and Latvia and Polish Zionist terrorizing Palestinians in their home

but

Iran is the one supporting terrorism


Why should Russia behave differently than West acting last 200 years ? ? ?

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Russia has accused Poland of provoking the outbreak of the Second World War by refusing to accede to the "very modest" demands of Nazi Germany.

Under planned legislation, backed by Mr Medvedev, any Russian or foreigner who claims that the Soviet Union occupied Poland or the Baltic States could face up to five years in prison.

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Again, reminds of west .. you point to fact Zionist had an office in Berlin and were in bed with Nazi/Gestapo, ample evidence of in German Nazi archives, and you in trouble


As said many times, history of what happened in WW2 (and WW1) is faked in the west .. history books are all faked .. result is generations are raised up with faked history learned as historical fact .. but , truth can not be hidden for ever



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[Alexis]

Zionist had an office in Berlin and were in bed with Nazi/Gestapo, ample evidence of in German Nazi archives

Are you taking them for medicinal purposes?

history of what happened in WW2 (and WW1) is faked in the west .. history books are all faked .. result is generations are raised up with faked history learned as historical fact .. but , truth can not be hidden for ever

The Truth Is Out There...
Go, Heracleum Persicum, Go!

[Alexis]

Telegraph | Russia accuses Poland of starting Second World War

Russia has accused Poland of provoking the outbreak of the Second World War by refusing to accede to the "very modest" demands of Nazi Germany.

Under planned legislation, backed by Mr Medvedev, any Russian or foreigner who claims that the Soviet Union occupied Poland or the Baltic States could face up to five years in prison.

This is old news (June 2009), that dispute -which had been started by lower rank elements in Russia- was settled some time later by then-Prime Minister Putin:

Putin to use Poland visit to counter WWII revisionism, boost ties

Putin condemned the Nazi-Soviet deal, but said it was unfair to claim it acted as "the only trigger for WWII." He said Europe's re-division began with the 1919 Versailles treaty that ended WWI and which he said was "humiliating" for Germany.
He also recalled the 1938 Munich accord between major European powers and Hitler's Germany, which permitted the German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. He said Poland then sent its troops into Czech provinces.
Another sensitive issue in Russian-Polish relations is the 1940 massacre of thousands of Polish officers by Soviet secret police in western Russia's Katyn.
Putin described the massacre as a "crime" but called for "forgiveness."
"The people of Russia whose lives were crippled by the totalitarian regime understand what the Poles feel about Katyn, where thousands of Polish servicemen were buried. We must keep alive our memory of the victims of this crime... as well as of the tragic fate of Russian soldiers in Polish captivity during the 1920 war."

Putin praised Polish soldiers and citizens for their wartime bravery

In Poland, however, Mr. Putin seemed to step back from historical debates, describing a shared failure to prevent “the bloodiest, most horrible war in the history of humanity.”
“All attempts between 1934 and 1939 to make peace with the Nazis, signing various agreements and pacts, were from a moral point of view unacceptable and from a practical point of view pointless, harmful and dangerous,” he said at the Gdansk memorial service. “It is necessary to admit these mistakes, and our country has done this.”

Say what one wants about Putin, he doesn't deal in X-Files and weed when speaking history.

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Telegraph | Russia accuses Poland of starting Second World War


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Russia adapting western logic .. "CIA and Jihadi" wiping out a whole Syrian Christian village and secular Syrians .. Russian and Latvia and Polish Zionist terrorizing Palestinians in their home

but

Iran is the one supporting terrorism


Why should Russia behave differently than West acting last 200 years ? ? ?

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Russia has accused Poland of provoking the outbreak of the Second World War by refusing to accede to the "very modest" demands of Nazi Germany.

Under planned legislation, backed by Mr Medvedev, any Russian or foreigner who claims that the Soviet Union occupied Poland or the Baltic States could face up to five years in prison.

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Again, reminds of west .. you point to fact Zionist had an office in Berlin and were in bed with Nazi/Gestapo, ample evidence of in German Nazi archives, and you in trouble


As said many times, history of what happened in WW2 (and WW1) is faked in the west .. history books are all faked .. result is generations are raised up with faked history learned as historical fact .. but , truth can not be hidden for ever



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Aside from the laughable looney tune conspiracy theories,

if one is going to spend one's time as a kotowing apologist for China, Russia, Iran, and Greater Bananastan.

one's arguments might carry a bit more weight if they were made from one of these countries,

not from the comfort, security, and relative freedom of one of the most civilized countries in the West.

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Thanks G_D somebody minding the store :Putin signs 'gay propaganda' ban and law criminalizing insult of religious feelings



well, folks .. told you, Western Christianity (run by homosexual Cardinals and Popes) in war with Russian-Orthodox Christianity


Be careful of "insult of religious feelings" ..


waiting for other shoe to drop




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[Alexis]

Aggression in the Moscow metro.

A man steals a young woman her mobile phone, under the cold eye of surveillance cameras.
Then... I let you watch what happens, but let's say he regrets his act!

Here is the video, within an article in French that says many in Russia speculate the young woman to be among Army cadets.

Anyway: do not make trouble with Russian women!

[Alexis]

Russia’s military conducts largest maneuvers since Soviet times, 160,000 troops involved

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday watched Russia’s biggest military maneuvers since Soviet times, involving 160,000 troops and about 5,000 tanks across Siberia and the far eastern region in a massive show of the nation’s resurgent military might.
Dozens of Russia’s Pacific Fleet ships and 130 combat aircraft also took part in the exercise, which began on Friday and continue through this week. Putin watched some of the drills on Sakhalin Island in the Pacific, where thousands of troops were ferried and airlifted from the mainland.
Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov assured foreign military attaches on Monday that the exercise was part of regular combat training and wasn’t directed against any particular nation, though some analysts believe the show of force was aimed at China and Japan.
Konstantin Sivkov, a retired officer of the Russian military’s General Staff, told the daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta that the Sakhalin part of the maneuvers was intended to simulate a response to a hypothetical attack by Japanese and U.S. forces.
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Alexander Khramchikhin, an independent Moscow-based military analyst, said that the massive exercise held in the areas along the border with China was clearly aimed at Beijing.
“It’s quite obvious that the land part of the exercise is directed at China, while the sea and island part of it is aimed at Japan,” he said.

These manoeuvers were also a test of reactivity: they were organized following a surprise decision by Putin last Friday July 12th.

[Heracleum Persicum]

Russia’s military conducts largest maneuvers since Soviet times, 160,000 troops involved

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday watched Russia’s biggest military maneuvers since Soviet times, involving 160,000 troops and about 5,000 tanks across Siberia and the far eastern region in a massive show of the nation’s resurgent military might.
Dozens of Russia’s Pacific Fleet ships and 130 combat aircraft also took part in the exercise, which began on Friday and continue through this week. Putin watched some of the drills on Sakhalin Island in the Pacific, where thousands of troops were ferried and airlifted from the mainland.
Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov assured foreign military attaches on Monday that the exercise was part of regular combat training and wasn’t directed against any particular nation, though some analysts believe the show of force was aimed at China and Japan.
Konstantin Sivkov, a retired officer of the Russian military’s General Staff, told the daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta that the Sakhalin part of the maneuvers was intended to simulate a response to a hypothetical attack by Japanese and U.S. forces.
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Alexander Khramchikhin, an independent Moscow-based military analyst, said that the massive exercise held in the areas along the border with China was clearly aimed at Beijing.
“It’s quite obvious that the land part of the exercise is directed at China, while the sea and island part of it is aimed at Japan,” he said.

These manoeuvers were also a test of reactivity: they were organized following a surprise decision by Putin last Friday July 12th.

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Putin means business .. China & Iran 2nd it




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[Alexis]

Putin means business .. China & Iran 2nd it

He certainly means business... but I would imagine that China is watching and taking notes, rather than seconding it.

Manoeuvers in Sakhalin was certainly intended for a Japanese/US scenario.

Manoeuvers with large land forces and tanks in Siberia... were aimed for a different scenario.

[Azrael]

Russia and China have had a number of wars and border disputes in the past.

It is probably much more likely that Russia and China will go to war against each other again than either of them will go to war against the U.S.

The wars between India and Pakistan, the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam, the Soviet War in Afghanistan (when China helped to train and arm the Mujahideen), and the Chinese Invasion of Vietnam in 1979 were, at least in part, proxy wars between Russia/USSR and China.

[Azrael]

Man in Siberia claims to be the messiah. Seems like a nicer guy than Rasputin.

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Do not try to be superior among the people around you. That intention leads to death.

[Simple Minded]

Do not try to be superior among the people around you. That intention leads to death.

timeless wisdom!

Also, as the 3 year old daughter of a friend once said "the first step to becoming wise is to act like you don't know so people will teach you!"

Brilliant!

[Heracleum Persicum]

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Vladimir V. Putin declares war on homosexuals. ..

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The law is broad and vague, so that any teacher who tells students that homosexuality is not evil, any parents who tell their child that homosexuality is normal, or anyone who makes pro-gay statements deemed accessible to someone underage is now subject to arrest and fines. Even a judge, lawyer or lawmaker cannot publicly argue for tolerance without the threat of punishment.

Finally, it is rumored that Mr. Putin is about to sign an edict that would remove children from their own families if the parents are either gay or lesbian or suspected of being gay or lesbian. The police would have the authority to remove children from adoptive homes as well as from their own biological parents.


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Roman Catholic Church now a homosexual Church, taken over by homosexuals

leaving Russian Orthodox Church only defender of Christianity


What an irony, America, bastion of conservatism, sinking into toilet called "liberalism" (a conspiracy) .. and .. Russia, the communist Atheist, now banner bearer of Conservatism


Vladimiro (Putin), Gooooooooooooooooo




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“ This is a very dangerous apocalyptic symptom, and we must do everything in our powers to ensure that sin is never sanctioned in Russia by state law, because that would mean that the nation has embarked on a path of self-destruction, ”

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The Patriarch called upon Russians to fight for freedom from sins. “Where sin is elected through freedom, there comes death, terror and dictatorship,” Kirill said.

He asked people to pray for the future of the country to prevent “the slavery of sin” that leads to the “self-destruction of the nation”.

Patriarch Kirill led a church service in Moscow on Sunday that honored the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan, one of the most revered relics in Russia. The liturgy took place at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan on Red Square, which has a copy of the revered icon.

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"We face enormous temptations when countries start approving sin and codifying it into law in order to justify it,”

Look, guys


RCC, Western Church(es), is (are) in war with "Russian Orthodox Church",

West is promoting Wahhabi and Salafi terrorism in and around Russia to destroy our beloved mother Russia

Putin is right, very much so


unfortunately, sad to say so, WW 3 , down the road, a reality .. positions already being taken





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[Azrael]

Do not try to be superior among the people around you. That intention leads to death.

timeless wisdom!

Also, as the 3 year old daughter of a friend once said "the first step to becoming wise is to act like you don't know so people will teach you!"

Brilliant!

Clever girl!

[Heracleum Persicum]

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A distinctly postmodern relationship



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