Still no court decision.
By the way "Russian BUK" and "BUK under Russian control" - different things. At time of clash with Georgia in 2008 "Russian BUK" what Ukraine gave to Georgia shooted down 3 Russian fighters.
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i sincerely hope there is no war, as far as I'm concerned they (Russians, belorussians, Ukrainians) are all the same, cousins practically, line them up and you cant tell the difference; and jusdging by the talent on Belami movies they are all hung drop dead gorgeous with high cheeks, piercing blue/greem eyes and muscle bubble butts....so what a waste if any had to die over I dont even know what...enough to make me religious and start praying that Jesus will intervene...
And send lots of his lovely angels to lighten the situation and bring peace, love and hot sex to all those lovely soldiers......
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...least u could do is use belami models....and not skinny famished looking ones...
...a million thanks
lol...that is kinda cheeky...but funny too...Russians can be a little initimidating...like when they speak english...always sounds like a threat no matter what they say...
Russia and Belarus just started 10 days of joint military drills primarily to scare the shit out of everyone, but also for the chance to give some of their gay soldiers some field experience.
Putin's not going to invade. If he was going to, he would have already.
He bluffed, NATO called him it, and now he's stuck trying to figure out how to get out of this without looking like a fool, so 10 days of military exercises with Belarus sounds good for now, I guess.
Half of Russia now laugh on Liz Truss another half wondered where UK found so uneducated minister. She came for talks about Ukraine but has no idea about geography of region. She came totally unprepared and just to collect some "bonuses" for Johnson.
Truss today demanded Russia to withdraw military parts from Voronezh and Rostov. Lavrov told her what Russia may keep own army where it wants within own borders and asked her: "Do your country recognize Russian sovereignty on Rostov and Voronezh?" And Truss's answer was: "UK will never recognize Russian sovereignty on these two regions".
British ambassador after that declaration got red face and ran to save situation, because Voronezh and Rostov regions are part of Russia at least for past 6 centuries.
She is so stupid and low educated. Few weeks ago in the speech in Lowy Institute she with serious and angry face said "Ukraine suffered from invasions of Mongols and Tatars". It wasn't two invasions, it was one Mongol-Tatarian. Mongol-Tatarian invasion was 4 centuries before Ukraine appears on any map,
You're assuming there Moses that she has ANY knowledge on the topics on which she speaks !
Like most Government Ministers in the UK she is undoubtedly handed her speech maybe 30 minutes before she's wheeled out to whatever hall she's been told to appear in, to read whatever script she's been told to read from by the UK Foreign Office. As you already commented her knowledge on just about any subject is i'm guessing NIL.
If she wasn't briefed before she went into a room and given her crib notes to hold close to her chest I doubt she'd be able to have ANY meaningful conversation with anyone about ANY topic in hand ( as you witnessed at those talks it seems !)
Most of our Govt ministers here are a total joke and an embarrassment / disgrace - and dont even start me on Nadine Dorries, our alleged Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Minister !! My god what a TWAT !! I wonder who SHE had to suck off to get that job, as she most certainly wasn't promoted because she had any talent !
....dodger...i want more...thats akin to art...sexual...like michael angelo's small dicked david...but still art...
...r we now into Jap porn...
For the first time in Belarusian Army history, the first all gay infantry platoon was assembled to begin practice drills along the Ukraine border. When the platoon leader barked out the command to "take your positions" - members of the illustrious Rainbow Platoon instinctively dropped their trousers to prepare for their drilling:
Completely ignorant posters on this topic such as Amazing Dodgems and Matt would benefit by reading a recent article in The Atlantic about how the preconceptions of Western diplomacy are actually misconceptions. However as they believe all wisdom resides within their somewhat slight intellect they won’t bother reading it
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...kraine/622075/
And that article sounds like it was written by some ignorant right wing nut job who's world view is so narrow they think you just need to lob a few nukes around, turn a few cities into parking lots, and voila, international crisis solved.
That's just being an arrogant asshole. Everyone knows the Western world has a big joint, no need to brag about it during press conferences that are aired internationally.Quote:
Instead of offering empty language about rules and values, she could have started the press conference like this:
Good Evening, ladies and gentlemen of the press. I am delighted to join you after meeting my Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. This time, we have not bothered to discuss treaties he won’t respect and promises he won’t keep. We have told him, instead, that an invasion of Ukraine will carry very, very high costs—higher than he has ever imagined. We are now planning to cut off Russian gas exports completely—Europe will find its energy supplies somewhere else. We are now preparing to assist the Ukrainian resistance, for a decade if need be. We are quadrupling our support for the Russian opposition, and for Russian media too. We want to make sure that Russians will start hearing the truth about this invasion, and as loudly as possible. And if you want to do regime change in Ukraine, we’ll get to work on regime change in Russia.
You don't gain international allies and support by being an arrogant loud mouth in front of the world.
Brilliant example of "Western" logic:
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France should ban political parties that accept Russian money
in the same article.Quote:
We are quadrupling our support for the Russian opposition, and for Russian media too.
When complain about Crimea remember Cyprus, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, Syria.
When complain about Russian influence to elections remember
Russia now has enough power to pay by the same coins. And if somebody will be stupid enough and will continue pressure, Russia may make union with China and "quadruple" own "answer".Quote:
we’ll get to work on regime change in Russia
What do you know about his salary?
Every state person here must publish tax declaration. Lavrov's income is about US$ 200 000 per year after taxation, his spouse also must to publish her income: it is about US$ 40 000 after taxation. His daughter's income is not published, but Ekaterina Lavrova is adult successful businesswoman who is living in London with her husband and kids. That propaganda calls "Lavrov's property in London" by fact isn't "Lavrov's": all Lavrov's properties are declared and published. Ekaterina with husband own this property.
https://i.unitsfashion.com/images/004/image-10604.jpg
Her husband Alexander Vinokurov is co-owner of one of biggest retail networks in Russia and also major shareholder of few other big companies here. I don't think he need Lavrov's money for to buy property in London.
https://image.newsru.com/v2/03/2017/...eaeda5e163.jpg
By the way: when you are talking about "Russian salary" you should take in account taxation in Russia and prices.
Small business pays here 3% of income until taxes are below US$15000 and then 4% (or 5% and 6%, depends on business type). Hired personal pays 13% of income. Education is free, medicine is free. Property is cheap, land is expensive only around of big cities in European part of Russia, anyone Russian is able to get land for free in Russian East (first five years it will be free rent, if land will be properly used then he will be owner after 5 years, state provides electric line for free and pays for drilling water supply).
I have no car. I can afford it, but have no reason to have - taxi here is unbelievable cheap: ride from one end of Moscow to another end takes about 30 minutes and cost only US$ 7-8 (up to $15-18 and 60 minutes at prime time). Property taxation 0.1% of price per year. To rent apts from city costs $80 (1 bedroom) - $100 (2 bedrooms) monthly including utilities. Unlimited 500 Mbit internet + 200 TV channels $12 monthly via optic fiber to each home (in cities), mobile phone contracts with unlimited 4G internet usage and calls $15.
The last taxi I was using in Russia had a baseball bat in the front drivers side door pocket.
I will concede that Russian tax rates are appealing.
Let me guess: ride was about 10 years ago or before.
Right now we have here Uber, Yandex, DiDi, Bla-Bla car (pickup service when you can join car owner in travel as a companion and will cover 1/2 of fuel, for example $25 to Sankt-Petersburg from Moscow). And a lot of car sharing companies (take car from the street, drop car on the street). There is no more "airport taxi mafia" (what is bat to fight against), even private black market almost does not exists.
No, they don't. Russia has a GDP of ~$1.48 trillion USD with a population of 145 million people. In contrast, Canada which is a nobody in terms of power on the world stage has a GDP of approximately $1.73 trillion USD with a population of ~37 million people.
GDP of just the US, EU and Canada combined is about $43 trillion/year. Comparing that to Russia as if they're on the same level is just a tad delusional.
Moses, in your opinion, do the majority of Russian people support an invasion of Ukraine, or oppose it?
Reading some of your comments it's become clear that Russia has progressed over the years to becoming a very modern and progressive society, but, as we all know, young people in general view "war" as being a systemic breakdown in humanity and don't come anywhere close to supporting this option.
I've been assuming that the whole World prefers a diplomatic solution versus watching thousands or tens of thousands of people losing their lives because of political ideologies, but honestly, I can't get a read on how the Russian people themselves feel about this.
Your opinion on this would be appreciated.
what a waste...stunningly beautiful men led to death...at times like this i stuggle to believe there is a God...
It is wrong question.
Right question: if Ukraine will break Minsk protocol and will try to eliminate Russian population in the East of Ukraine, will citizens of Russia support counter strike? Answer is yes.
Like it was in Georgia in 2008: Russia slept until Saakashvilli lost his mind and started fire. Everything has been finished in 3 days after it.
About half of year ago Ukraine started "Civil resistance" program. They distributing weapons among trusted civilian citizens (origination from West of Ukraine, Ukrainian by ethnicity, formerly Ukrainian army solders, nationalists).
Week ago there has been published news what this program failed in Kharkov, Dnipro, Odessa regions - they can't find people who accept weapon for to fight for current nationalists government. All 3 regions are around current unrest area at the East - Kharkov is laying on the North from it, Dnipro on the west and Odessa on the South. All 3 has huge (not majority but around 35-40%) Russian populations.
This installed by USA regime isn't popular within population on the East of Ukraine.
It is like it was in March 2014 - current "separatists" took power almost without fight - all security services (police, gendarmerie, army) just dissolved because they were formed from locals. All fight started only in June 2014 when nationalist and Nazi battalions from west (like "Azov" is) arrived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion neo-Nazism ideology, in UN reports: mass looting of civilian homes was documented, rape and torture.