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'Dying' Russia's Birth Rate Is Now Higher Than The United States' | Mark Adomanis

This was not the headline that the Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics gave its recent release of provisional fertility data for 2012. However, if you compare the most recent CDC data with Rosstat data on Russian births you see that, for the first time in a very long time, in 2012 Russia’s birth rate actually exceeded that of the United States. This is, to put it mildly, a significant reversal from the not too distant past when the US had a birth rate that was as much as 75% higher than Russia’s. As you can see, the speed and scale of the convergence is impressive

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Azrael wrote:'Dying' Russia's Birth Rate Is Now Higher Than The United States' | Mark Adomanis

This was not the headline that the Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics gave its recent release of provisional fertility data for 2012. However, if you compare the most recent CDC data with Rosstat data on Russian births you see that, for the first time in a very long time, in 2012 Russia’s birth rate actually exceeded that of the United States. This is, to put it mildly, a significant reversal from the not too distant past when the US had a birth rate that was as much as 75% higher than Russia’s. As you can see, the speed and scale of the convergence is impressive

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Thank You VERY Much for your post, Azrael.

Wondering if the difference can be Putin ;) the fact that Russia has had in President Prince Vlad :twisted: Putin someone who for all his faults appears to really be concerned about protecting Russia vs. the incompetent klowns we have elected......

Recalling a Libertarian Cartoon Supporting Putin as President for Uz.

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoon ... VEkeyword=

Recalling that Russia had Make a Baby for Mother Russia day...... in effect paying Russians to have children.......

I am shocked ;) :shock: that someone at Forbes thinks paying people to do something like have sex or children is ineffective.......

Putin is probably more fun to observe from afar....... :|

But we do need someone better than our Arrogant Lazy Lying Duty Station Deserting Son of a Bitch Eater Obama or his plant life ;) predecessor George Woodrow Wilson Bush........
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There will likely be a boycott of the Sochi Olympics due to the recent crackdown on homosexuality in Russia. Gay bars across the world are tossing out Russian Vodka.

It is illegal to be homosexual in Russia. Fascists are kidnapping and torturing homosexuals. Foreign homosexuals cannot come to Russia. It is illegal to tell children about homosexuals. It is illegal to help homosexuals in any way.

So I bet there will be a major boycott of the Olympics next year.
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Enki wrote:http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/so ... 7/30/72093

There will likely be a boycott of the Sochi Olympics due to the recent crackdown on homosexuality in Russia. Gay bars across the world are tossing out Russian Vodka.

It is illegal to be homosexual in Russia. Fascists are kidnapping and torturing homosexuals. Foreign homosexuals cannot come to Russia. It is illegal to tell children about homosexuals. It is illegal to help homosexuals in any way.

So I bet there will be a major boycott of the Olympics next year.
I'd guess the opposite and predict GBLT athletes and activists will participate as never before. I bet we see more rainbows at the Olympics than at Niagra Falls.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/0 ... ostpopular
To say that things are bleak for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Russia right now would be a gross understatement (literally and figuratively).

Recent anti-LGBT legislation and violence has prompted a global conversation about and backlash to the country and its leaders.

From protests outside the Russian consulate in New York City to gay bars around the world refusing to serve Russian vodka, activists and allies are raising their voices in hopes of bringing about change to the virulently homophobic and transphobic country.

But what if pledging to drink only beer or promising not to watch the 2014 Sochi Olympics just doesn't feel like it's quite enough?

Well, why not mail Russian President Vladimir Putin a dildo? That's what one group is asking anyone outraged by Russia's anti-lgbt policies to do.

As Queerty reports, a new Facebook group titled "Send A Dildo To Vladimir Putin" has sprung up. The page offers the president's address, 23, Ilyinka Street, Moscow, 103132, Russia, and suggests, "Help Impale The Vlad! Send your toys, new or used, to where they're needed the most!"

Because nothing says "F you!" like a used sex toy in your mailbox, right?
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Hoosiernorm wrote:.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/0 ... ostpopular
To say that things are bleak for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Russia right now would be a gross understatement (literally and figuratively).

Recent anti-LGBT legislation and violence has prompted a global conversation about and backlash to the country and its leaders.

From protests outside the Russian consulate in New York City to gay bars around the world refusing to serve Russian vodka, activists and allies are raising their voices in hopes of bringing about change to the virulently homophobic and transphobic country.

But what if pledging to drink only beer or promising not to watch the 2014 Sochi Olympics just doesn't feel like it's quite enough?

Well, why not mail Russian President Vladimir Putin a dildo? That's what one group is asking anyone outraged by Russia's anti-lgbt policies to do.

As Queerty reports, a new Facebook group titled "Send A Dildo To Vladimir Putin" has sprung up. The page offers the president's address, 23, Ilyinka Street, Moscow, 103132, Russia, and suggests, "Help Impale The Vlad! Send your toys, new or used, to where they're needed the most!"

Because nothing says "F you!" like a used sex toy in your mailbox, right?


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International community, at least 5 Billion of 7 Billion world population, is against that GAY rubbish now flourishing in Western culture and civilization

In that sense, Russia is on the right side, and west on the wrong




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Heracleum Persicum wrote:
Hoosiernorm wrote:.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/0 ... ostpopular
To say that things are bleak for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Russia right now would be a gross understatement (literally and figuratively).

Recent anti-LGBT legislation and violence has prompted a global conversation about and backlash to the country and its leaders.

From protests outside the Russian consulate in New York City to gay bars around the world refusing to serve Russian vodka, activists and allies are raising their voices in hopes of bringing about change to the virulently homophobic and transphobic country.

But what if pledging to drink only beer or promising not to watch the 2014 Sochi Olympics just doesn't feel like it's quite enough?

Well, why not mail Russian President Vladimir Putin a dildo? That's what one group is asking anyone outraged by Russia's anti-lgbt policies to do.

As Queerty reports, a new Facebook group titled "Send A Dildo To Vladimir Putin" has sprung up. The page offers the president's address, 23, Ilyinka Street, Moscow, 103132, Russia, and suggests, "Help Impale The Vlad! Send your toys, new or used, to where they're needed the most!"

Because nothing says "F you!" like a used sex toy in your mailbox, right?


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International community, at least 5 Billion of 7 Billion world population, is against that GAY rubbish now flourishing in Western culture and civilization

In that sense, Russia is on the right side, and west on the wrong




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Thank You Very Much for your post, Azari.

International community, at least 5 Billion of 7 Billion world population, is against that GAY rubbish now flourishing in Western culture and civilization

Waiting with anticipation for Ibrahim to denounce you and 5 Billion others of the world population as RACIST and Bigots..........*

Don't worry........

He despises me too.......

Even though I defend victims of Gay Bashing.........

Like that "Queer Ass Cracker".......

George Zimmerman........ ;)

And I like the gay Russian composer, Tchaikovsky, especially his "Nutty Cracker Sweet" ;) oops I mean "Nutcracker Suite".......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchaikovsk ... l_marriage

Short......

sB1-axKPmSM

Longer.......

M8J8urC_8Jw


*If he read your post........
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Do We Really Want a Cold War II? | Pat Buchanan | takimag

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“There have been times when they slip back into Cold War thinking,” said President Obama in his tutorial with Jay Leno.

And to show the Russians that such Cold War thinking is antiquated, Obama canceled his September summit with Vladimir Putin.

The reason: Putin’s grant of asylum to Edward Snowden, who showed up at the Moscow airport, his computers full of secrets that our National Security Agency has been thieving from every country on earth, including Russia.

Yet there are many KGB defectors in the United States, and Russia has never used this as an excuse to cancel a summit.

The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal are delighted, hopeful that cancellation presages a more confrontational policy toward Putin.

But is a second Cold War really a good idea? And if it is coming, who is more responsible for it?
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Brezhnev Beats Lenin as Russia's Favorite 20th Century Ruler -- Levada Centre

MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russians view Leonid Brezhnev as the most positive of all Soviet and Russian leaders in the 20th century, but Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were close behind in an opinion poll released on Wednesday.

Brezhnev, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1964-1982, was viewed positively by 56 percent of respondents in the survey carried out by Moscow’s Levada Center pollster.

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Lenin, who led the Bolsheviks into power in 1917, was seen positively by 55 percent of respondents,

Stalin, the Soviet dictator whose almost three decade rule saw millions of his fellow countrymen perish in gulag labor camps, was judged to have been a positive influence by 50 percent of respondents.

Perestroika-era leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s rule was viewed positively by just 21 percent of respondents, while 22 percent were positive about Boris Yeltsin, independent Russia’s first president.

Tsar Nicholas II, deposed and executed by the Bolsheviks, was seen as a positive influence by 48 percent of respondents.

The poll was carried out April 19-22 across Russia among 1,600 respondents.
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And that is why Russia can't and won't have nice things.
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Typhoon wrote:And that is why Russia can't and won't have nice things.
Thank you Very Much for your post, Typhoon.

Perhaps/Probably True........ :| :roll:

But the Russian Bad News Bears ;) do still have a Space Program capable of getting Depraved Sinful Chaos Monkeys off planet.............

Yes we Uz have somethings in the works for allegedly 2017..........

But an operational Soyuz rocket beats 4 conceptual ones until then.........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_space_p ... present.29
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Moscow Seen ‘Losing’ Ukraine and Belarus Just as It Earlier ‘Lost’ the Baltic Countries

By pursuing the short-term profit goals of Russian oligarchs out of the conviction that this will promote Russia’s interest rather than considering the possible impact of such an approach on Russian national interests, Moscow is alienating Ukraine and Belarus, two Slavic neighbors it has long viewed as its inevitable allies and possibly more. Consequently, some analysts are now saying Russian may “lose” these two countries just as it did Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, the three Baltic states now firmly part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (ng.ru/cis/2013-08-29/3_kartblansh.html).

In his August 29 Nezavisimaya Gazeta article, Kost Bondarenko, the director of the Institute of Ukrainian Policy, notes that many experts are calling Russia’s approach to Ukraine at present “an economic war” and some are even suggesting that what the Kremlin is doing reflects “the imperial essence of official Moscow.” But beyond any doubt, the economic sanctions Moscow has imposed—most notably on Ukraine’s largest confectioner, Roshen (RIA Novosti, July 30)—are having exactly the opposite effect the Russian leadership intended. While they are inflicting real costs on Ukraine, they are not bringing Kyiv to heel but rather causing ever more Ukrainians to conclude that they have no choice but to pursue closer integration with Europe.

Indeed, Bondarenko adds, “by introducing ‘revenge sanctions,’ Russia is losing Ukraine forever, just as it, some time ago, lost the countries of the Baltic region,” not because it had to, but because of its unshakeable belief that it can win its way by using sticks rather than carrots—something that, in reality, almost never works.

Moscow has compounded this trend by the outrageous statements of the always flamboyant Vladimir Zhirinovsky who has charged that Ukraine is committing genocide against ethnic Russians and called for Moscow to annex a third of that country (lb.ua/news/2013/08/30/223196_zhirinovskiy_obvinil_kiev_etnotside.html). Additionally, a purportedly official, recently published ten-page document suggests Moscow has decided to launch a massive campaign to force Kyiv to agree to its wishes (gazeta.zn.ua/internal/o-komplekse-mer-po-vovlecheniyu-ukrainy-v-evraziyskiy-integracionnyy-process-_.html). Even if the document is not authentic, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohrzhko told RFE/RL that he had “no doubt” that its contents reflect Moscow’s intentions (rferl.org/content/russia-ukraine-leaked-strategy-document/25081053.html).

Meanwhile, the Russian government appears to be doing the same thing in Belarus: promoting the interests of oligarchs at the expense of ties between the two countries. In Svobodnaya Pressa, on August 31, Aleksey Zimin makes that point explicitly (svpressa.ru/politic/article/73481/). While, in a Yezhednevny Zhurnal commentary published on August 30, Aleksandr Ryklin extends that argument, suggesting that by its incautious support of oligarchic interests, Moscow has managed to alienate not only its two Slavic neighbors on whom it thought it could always count, but most of its other neighbors as well. The only exceptions, and they are not particularly exceptional, he suggests, are “the fraternal Central Asian republics, Mongolia and Finland” (ej.ru/?a=note&id=13238).

Finally, writing on the Grani.ru portal (August 30), Vitaly Portnikov suggests just how counterproductive, and thus dangerous, Moscow’s current approach is. Not only is Russia increasingly surrounded by “a ring of enemies,” including many who could have been more friendly, but it has created a situation in which the governments of its neighbors—in the first instance, Ukraine and Belarus—now know that the only way they can protect their interests is to link their fates with the West (grani.ru/opinion/portnikov/m.218371.html).

One can hardly describe President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy as a brilliant success given that thanks to that approach, the Grani.ru analyst says, “Russia does not have a single ally in the contemporary world.” Still worse, he adds, in the Ukrainian and Belarusian case, Moscow is behaving not as a great power but as “a small still unrecognized republic, uncertain of how to act tomorrow and how to purchase with money the love” of those who have good reason not to love it and to insist that they, for some reason, obey Russia “slavishly.”

Unfortunately for Russia, Portnikov concludes, there is little chance that Moscow will change course as long as the Putin regime is in place. It is too invested in this failed policy approach to change. And equally tragically, too many people in the Russian Federation are prepared to support it even though eventually they will be anything but happy with the outcome it is certain to produce.

Moscow’s mistaken approach, first to the Baltic countries and more recently to Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, has been graphically represented in a chart offered at facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=720063364687493&set=a.479661218727710.129417.478655878828244&type=1&theater. It makes clear that over the last two decades and after ensuring by its actions that the Baltic states would do everything they could in order to join NATO and the EU, the Kremlin—like the French House of Bourbon before it—has forgotten nothing and learned nothing. However, the costs of alienating Ukraine and Belarus will be even larger than those associated with “the loss” of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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It's funny how great powers - which includes Russia and the US - always seem to think that force, the use and the threat of force, are the only game in town. The results are always the opposite of what those powers wanted, but they keep insisting. Is it lack of intelligence or is it something genetic?...
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I've been noticing the same thing about Russia.

The folks leading Ukraine (Party of Regions) and Belarus (Lukashenko) used to be very close allies of Russia; but it seems Putin has been spending years going out of his way to antagonize both countries, turning friends in to enemies. It makes no sense to me.

Sometimes Putin seems really smart, sometimes Putin seems really dumb.

Perhaps psychologically he can't handle the concept of Ukraine and Belarus being independent countries, rather than part of mother Russia.

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Russian man shot in quarrel over Immanuel Kant’s philosophy
Attacker now faces ten years' incarceration to contemplate the ethics of his actions



A philosophical argument over views on Immanuel Kant descended into violent mayhem in southern Russia, leading to a man being shot several times.

The dispute occurred when two men waiting for a beer became involved in an increasingly fractious argument over the work of Kant – the author of canonical philosophical text Critique of Pure Reason – according to a police spokeswoman in Rostov-on-Don, the town where the argument broke out.

The row ended with one of the men producing an air gun and firing several rubber bullets at his opponent.

Police did not identify the men but said that the gunman had been detained after fleeing the scene, while the victim was in hospital with non-life-threatening wounds. The attacker now faces up to 10 years in prison for intentional infliction of serious bodily harm, police said.

It is not known which of Kant’s many theories was the subject of debate.

However, it is highly unlikely the violent nature of the argument would have pleased Kant, left, the widely revered philosopher best known for his writing on ethics and his habitually sedentary lifestyle.

Kant’s theory on duty-based ethics were based on the principle that no decision should be made unless morally good in itself, regardless of predicted consequences – a thinking he called the categorical imperative.

The philosopher only took time out of his studies for a walk at 3.30pm every day – a tradition he kept up for nearly 60 years before his death at the age of 79 in 1804.

Less than 5ft tall, Kant suffered from bad health throughout his life and never left his Prussian home town of Königsberg – now Kaliningrad in modern-day Russia.
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YMix wrote:
Russian man shot in quarrel over Immanuel Kant’s philosophy
Attacker now faces ten years' incarceration to contemplate the ethics of his actions



A philosophical argument over views on Immanuel Kant descended into violent mayhem in southern Russia, leading to a man being shot several times.

The dispute occurred when two men waiting for a beer became involved in an increasingly fractious argument over the work of Kant – the author of canonical philosophical text Critique of Pure Reason – according to a police spokeswoman in Rostov-on-Don, the town where the argument broke out.

The row ended with one of the men producing an air gun and firing several rubber bullets at his opponent.

Police did not identify the men but said that the gunman had been detained after fleeing the scene, while the victim was in hospital with non-life-threatening wounds. The attacker now faces up to 10 years in prison for intentional infliction of serious bodily harm, police said.

It is not known which of Kant’s many theories was the subject of debate.

However, it is highly unlikely the violent nature of the argument would have pleased Kant, left, the widely revered philosopher best known for his writing on ethics and his habitually sedentary lifestyle.

Kant’s theory on duty-based ethics were based on the principle that no decision should be made unless morally good in itself, regardless of predicted consequences – a thinking he called the categorical imperative.

The philosopher only took time out of his studies for a walk at 3.30pm every day – a tradition he kept up for nearly 60 years before his death at the age of 79 in 1804.

Less than 5ft tall, Kant suffered from bad health throughout his life and never left his Prussian home town of Königsberg – now Kaliningrad in modern-day Russia.
I would rather shoot those who force present day students to read Kant... Groundbreaking as his work may have been, forcing students to read his works today (anyone writing the way he did should have been shot on sight!...) is like forcing someone to learn doing accounting with an abacus in order to be able to use a computer... [Ok! Go ahead and shoot me!...]
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YMix wrote:
Russian man shot in quarrel over Immanuel Kant’s philosophy
Attacker now faces ten years' incarceration to contemplate the ethics of his actions



A philosophical argument over views on Immanuel Kant descended into violent mayhem in southern Russia, leading to a man being shot several times.

The dispute occurred when two men waiting for a beer became involved in an increasingly fractious argument over the work of Kant – the author of canonical philosophical text Critique of Pure Reason – according to a police spokeswoman in Rostov-on-Don, the town where the argument broke out.

The row ended with one of the men producing an air gun and firing several rubber bullets at his opponent.

Police did not identify the men but said that the gunman had been detained after fleeing the scene, while the victim was in hospital with non-life-threatening wounds. The attacker now faces up to 10 years in prison for intentional infliction of serious bodily harm, police said.

It is not known which of Kant’s many theories was the subject of debate.

However, it is highly unlikely the violent nature of the argument would have pleased Kant, left, the widely revered philosopher best known for his writing on ethics and his habitually sedentary lifestyle.

Kant’s theory on duty-based ethics were based on the principle that no decision should be made unless morally good in itself, regardless of predicted consequences – a thinking he called the categorical imperative.

The philosopher only took time out of his studies for a walk at 3.30pm every day – a tradition he kept up for nearly 60 years before his death at the age of 79 in 1804.

Less than 5ft tall, Kant suffered from bad health throughout his life and never left his Prussian home town of Königsberg – now Kaliningrad in modern-day Russia.
It's hard to imagine this happening in America.

I don''t think this is likely to happen in China, either. And Kentucky Fried Chicken is popular in both places, too. Cultural bridges!
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Putin called on Russians to strengthen a new national identity based on conservative and traditional values such as the Orthodox church on Thursday, warning that the west was facing a moral crisis.




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“Sovereignty, independence, the integrity of Russia – those are red lines that no one is allowed to cross,” the Russian president warned.

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Mr Putin said Russia should avoid the example of European countries that were “going away from their roots”, by legalising gay marriage and excessive “political correctness”.

“A policy is being conducted of putting on the same level multi-child families and single-sex partnerships, belief in God and belief in Satan. The excesses of political correctness are leading to the point where people are talking seriously about registering parties whose goal is legalising the propaganda of paedophilia,” Mr Putin claimed.

“People in many European countries are ashamed, and are afraid of talking about their religious convictions. [Religious] holidays are being taken away or called something else, shamefully hiding the essence of the holiday,” the Russian president added.

“We need to respect the rights of minorities to be different, but the rights of the majority should not be in question,” he said.

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He joked of being friends with both Mr Prodi and the former Italian premier’s political foe, Silvio Berlusconi. “Berlusconi is on trial for the fact that he lives with women, but if he was a homosexual, no one would touch him,” Mr Putin quipped.

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Have to admit Vladimiro right :lol: :lol:


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Another foreign politician who felt the sharp end of Mr Putin’s wit was US senator John McCain, who on Thursday morning published an opinion piece on the Pravda.ru website saying Mr Putin was a “tyrant” at home and friend of tyrants abroad”.

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“[Mr McCain] wants to be published in the newspaper that is most authoritative and has mass circulation,” said Mr Putin. “Pravda is a respected publication today of the opposition Communist party, but the level of its distribution in the country is minimal.

“The senator has his views on things, but I think nonetheless he lacks information about our country. I would welcome it if he came to the Valdai Club and joined our discussions.”

But Mr Putin avoided triumphalism towards Washington, despite Russia’s diplomatic coup in agreeing with the US last weekend a plan for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons to international control.

The Russian leader said he had not enabled Barack Obama to “save face” by finding a way for him to avoid a Congress vote on military strikes he might have lost. The US president, Mr Putin said, had saved face himself by backing away from military action.

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Russia's international prestige is growing as it outplays the US in a fight it started but seems unable to finish



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Obama has effectively given up on the core tenets of the war declared by former president Bush against al-Qaeda related terrorist groups. Drone strikes and targeted killings are meant as reactive measures of containment and not as a pro-active policy aimed at the eradication of global jihadism.

In the light of current international developments, the opposite can be said about Vladimir Putin's Russia. While on one hand, the Russian president has been conducting arguably defendable deals with Iran, he has been able to successfully shape the war on terror discourse for the benefit of his country's internal security and Russia's overall international standing.

As a result of the crisis started by the use of chemical weapons in Syria in August 2013, Putin has highlighted the two tenets necessary to wage a successful campaign against international Islamist terrorism. A coherent and well-crafted political message easily transmitted by international media along with the use of appropriate military and diplomatic means are the key steps to effectively combat global jihadist networks.

Putin demonstrated during the Syrian crisis that he is in clear control of the way he wants the media to portray his country. By having a simple, even simplistic, approach to the current multi-faceted insurgency that is hampering the Syrian security environment, Putin has effectively raised the debate concerning the scope of jihadist actions in Syria

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Don't mention Kaliningrad

What idiots!

And now they're in NATO (unlike Georgia). So we'd have to defend Lithuania if their stupidity got them in to a war.
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Azrael wrote:.

Don't mention Kaliningrad

What idiots!

And now they're in NATO (unlike Georgia). So we'd have to defend Lithuania if their stupidity got them in to a war.

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You really think France would go to war with Russia if and when Russia overruns Lithuania or Estonia ? ? ? :lol:


come on


Germany pretty much an ally of Russia, in reality NATO just Americans, and they in retreat


That NATO thing is "diluted" .. not NATO used 2B


In fact, NATO membership bad for your health Ms. Lithuania and Estonia :) , makes you say silly things you do not mean really :lol:




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Re: Russia

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We're not in retreat. We're playing an outside game, like the English at Crécy.
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Putin Deserves it More than obama Did.......

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Heracleum Persicum wrote:.



Vladimir Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize




He really deserves it


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Thank you VERY Much for your post, Azari.

President Premier Prince Vlad Putin the Imprisoner ;) :twisted: :shock: certainly deserves it more than Arrogant, Bloviating, Careless, Duty Station Deserting, Egotistical, Fatuous, Gag needing, Hypocritical, Incompetent except at Electioneering, Jerk, Klown, Lazy & Lying, Mouthy, Nincompoop Obama the Son of a Bitch Eater deserved a Nobel Peace Prize ;) :twisted: :lol: :roll:
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Re: Russia

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I don't consider myself a specialist of Persian literature, which I regret, because everything I hear or learn is very interesting despite being fragmented.

This also concerns the history of Iran, a part of world history.

Iran is initially a world power that spread from the near East to India, and even included some parts of the former Soviet republics.

Iran is a country of protoreligion, Zoroastrianism.

Some specialist consider it an eventual source of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.

But according to some studies, Zoroastrianism was born on Russia's territory, in the south Urals. And followers of this great religion ended up on
the territory of Iran after a great migration.

This is to say that the histories of our two countries and the roots of their cultural exchange are much deeper than can be imagined at first.

That gives security that our two countries will always be able to communicate on any problem, since we understand one another.


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Guys, in final analysis, what Putin thinks about Persia, Russia's relation with (Greater) Persia, is what will count in Iranian future, in building of the
New Middle East .. In the future, Iran and Russia have to interface in many fields and domains and space, same things as America with central and South America


That is the essence of PUTIN policy towards Iran




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