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by gdy 5y ago
>War support is pretty strong through all social strata. (also backed by independent pollsters like levada) Well, when Levada's polls showed overwhelming support for the annexation among Crimeans (and even growing support from Crime
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by gdy 5y ago
I wonder how much time one would need to run tank engine idle to run out of fuel?
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by gdy 5y ago
Yes, my fear is that we are moving into 1990s economically, and politically into the times of the USSR. For now they are promising tax benefits for programmers and IT-companies, cheap mortgage and safety from being conscripted. The last one
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by gdy 5y ago
I didn't want to imply that we are doing anything meaningful, just that we at the very least don't condone what's happening. Many are running the hell away from Russia and that's something the government has already got
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by gdy 5y ago
I know
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by gdy 5y ago
Dmytro, I'm Russian living in Russia and I'm devastated and terrified by this war of aggression. I have friends in Ukraine and I can hear siren wailing while talking with them via Skype. There are already about 30 thousand members
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by gdy 5y ago
"Meanwhile, it is not entirely clear that Putin’s war has widespread popular support in Russia" Russian living in Russia here. I don't know anyone around me who supports this. Many people in Russia have friends or relatives
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by gdy 5y ago
That was a poll about protecting Donetsk and Luhansk, I believe.
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by gdy 5y ago
Another Russian here. I'm horrified and cannot believe this is happening.
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by gdy 5y ago
But 'disgrace'?
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by gdy 5y ago
If anything is a disgrace it's your russophobic comment. Alexandra Elbakyan, who created SciHub, was born is Kazakhstan (exUSSR) and later studied in Russia where she lives now. I'm proud that Russia is one of the few countries on
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by gdy 5y ago
I wouldn't know, but I can speculate that it surely should be a concern -- goats are strong, one wouldn't want to get kicked, rammed or bitten by a goat, especially with one's pants down.
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by gdy 5y ago
Another way to tell that someone is rotten on the inside is the use of the 'goatfucker' slur to refer to zoo-sexual people.
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by gdy 5y ago
"naturally Scott Meyers can't write books forever" He surely can't. http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/12/good-to-go.html
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by gdy 5y ago
That's factually incorrect. You are seriously out of date. Sberbank is by far the most popular retail bank in Russia (over 80% of Russians use its services) and the distribution of the client age is almost uniform. [0] The performance
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by gdy 5y ago
"it really isn't" You can't say 'really' and at the same time refer to an article with the word 'debate' in its title. Between World Bank's position and a single article I would take World Bank a
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by gdy 5y ago
"Russia also does this. Inconvenient journalists are designated "foreign agents", for instance." Inconvenient journalists financed from abroad. And "foreign agents" are not imprisoned, they just obligated by th
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by gdy 5y ago
"Yandex is basically Russia only" Not entirely. [0] Here is Yandex’s market share in several countries (Statcounter, July 2019): Russia: 48.79% Belarus: 22.38% Kazakhstan: 21.88% Tajkistan: 15.12% Uzbekistan:
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by gdy 5y ago
"this summer was a huge crisis with drinkable water" Why didn't you say that the crisis was created by spiteful Ukraine resenting that Crimean people are mostly pro-Russian? Has Ukraine recognized that Crimeans are Russian ci
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by gdy 5y ago
"And we can get arrested for single like in social media." [Citation needed]
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by gdy 5y ago
You could say 500000 just as well. Where is the list?
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by gdy 5y ago
"Russia practically has their own internet like China." No, we do not. For example, Google and Yandex are intensely competing for the Russian search market.
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by gdy 5y ago
"Russia has an economy that is smaller than Italy's by several hundred billion dollars." This meme about Russia's economy being smaller than Italy's needs to die. Russia is the 6th economy in the world, Italy is 13t
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by gdy 5y ago
Well, in the context of this discussion I interpret 'written for everyone' as 'author was aware that everyone can read this and still wrote what he wrote'. An author of a paper on string theory published on arxive is awa
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by gdy 5y ago
"just telling you what their decision already is" That's not the only thing that they did. As the Russian saying goes, 'if you said A, say B'. I'd have no problem with the message 'We are resigning because
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by gdy 5y ago
"just a public statement saying they do not accept the resolution and therefore resign" The statement is much more than that.
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by gdy 5y ago
Are you suggesting that the substance of the accusation is as complex and cannot be explained without years of preparation?
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by gdy 5y ago
"they're just asking for a new jury" That's not what they did, obviously.
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by gdy 5y ago
"viewable by others" And I'm sure that the authors of the message are aware of that but made the decision to write what they have written anyway.
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by gdy 5y ago
"The accusation is not vague and it was substantiated" The public accusation is vague and is not substantiated. What is the reason for it to exist in the first place if not to put blame without giving a chance to refute it?

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