This thread is about Russia and any events, political or otherwise, that are or might be worth discussing.
Any news, links or posts pertaining to the situation involving Russia, Crimea and Ukraine must be put in the 'Crisis in Ukraine' thread.
Group of deputies wants Gorbachev investigated over Soviet break-up.
Above in the Guardian version.
Putin's war against Russia's last independent TV channel.
No discussion regarding nuclear war. As nuclear weapons are not being used by either side, nuclear war is off-topic.
Edited by MacronNotes on Feb 27th 2022 at 11:26:10 AM
Seems like your usual moral panic: much ado about nothing.
The law in the night
Pornhub and youporn blocked in Russia, Roskomnadzor suggest meeting people as the alternative.
In totally unrelated news, the search for non Russian IP proxies rose sharply after the block.
Inter arma enim silent leges
Why even bother searching? There are browser plugins that go past these blocks automatically.
Whenever I hear about us trying to block another site, I keep remembering Lumi's words from some time ago "Behold, I will now mildly inconvenience everything that you hold dear!" Censoring the internet without something like the Great Chinese Firewall is utterly impossible.
Shameful Display
Russia denies date rape drugging two US diplomats
By the way, can Russian terrorists be classified as Far East Asian Terrorists instead of Western Terrorists?
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
No, Russians are far more close to Europe culturally than Asia. They're Eastern European not Far East.
Oh really when?
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Even if they are from the Asian part of Russia?
The law in the night
I am on the verge of making a remove kebab comment about this, just take as said.
edited 8th Oct '16 2:29:58 PM by AngelusNox
Inter arma enim silent leges
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
Yes, you'll obviously get some overlap just like how you get a lot of overlap in say, California with Mexico but it's still Russia and Russia is still very much an Eastern European nation.
Eastern European of course being a different sort of cultural sphere from Western Europe and the Far East.
Oh really when?
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
edited 8th Oct '16 3:42:28 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Asking over here because I know there's at least one actual Russian around: how is Russian media talking about the US election, especially right now? I've heard tell that it's been severely biased toward Trump but given I don't speak Russian it's all hearsay to me.
The law in the night
See RT and Sputnik.
Inter arma enim silent leges
Central Asian and Siberean, people. Those are the designations for the not-very-European bits. Not "Far East".
Central Asia has always had a different cultural way of doing things because of the steppes. And, Siberian "neither Asia nor Europe, but very Arctic Circle" is itself for very cold, forested and tundraed reasons. The Ainu culture of Japan is Siberian, not "Far Eastern". Just ask anybody.
edited 9th Oct '16 6:57:31 AM by Euodiachloris
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Good thing I qualified my statement with "maybe", then.
edited 9th Oct '16 6:12:12 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Elle - Most of our media treats this election as either a freakshow or a comedy of errors, depending on how willing to launch personal attacks they are, Trump is treated with amused contempt and the overall attitude towards this election is either "poor America" generally or "whoever loses, we win" among the nationalists.
edited 11th Oct '16 4:01:56 PM by KnitTie
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
Anything on how heavily the Russian government is involved in supporting Trump and Republican party?
Oh really when?
That's interesting, if they're really only pushing the pro-Trump stuff in English language media (there was a thing that come up over the weekend where Trump's team took an inaccurate report from Sputnik and used it at a rally and it was caught by a reporter from Newsweek who actually wrote the thing (taken out of context) the report and the campaign was falsely attributing to a Clinton ally they're demonizing.)
edited 11th Oct '16 4:20:44 PM by Elle
Oh, bother.
The curious bit, which said Newsweek journalist pointed out in his story, is that Sputnik took their story down pretty quickly. Which begs the question of how Trump got ahold of that story.
andThat's probably less our media supporting Trump and more our journalists being just plain lazy and grabbing sensationalist-sounding articles to repost without putting too much effort into looking at them first.
There're a couple articles here and there, but otherwise even our opposition media doesn't talk too much about this, since it's considered to be a boring, self-evident fact in the same way that the US supporting anyone who's against Putin is considered to be a boring, self-evident fact.
edited 11th Oct '16 11:22:38 PM by KnitTie
Garcon - I linked an interview answering that very question on the US politics thread. NPR interview. Wish I still had the link.
Oh, bother.
So your journalists are lazy and go for low hanging easy ratings fruit? I guess some things are universal.
They are staggeringly lazy and have a tendency to say things that they believe the government wants them to say without actually consulting said government for details and/or coordinating with other journalists, which leads to very stupid lies every so often. Earlier in this thread we called this phenomenon "working towards the Kremlin."
Russia Today bank accounts 'frozen in UK'
Ah, and I also found nothing on Lurka, if you still wonder.