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You think firing some surplus soviet missiles is stretching economy in any way?

Your attempts to trivialize it are pathetic. It is not just "surplus missiles". Wars are expensive — a single launch of Grad or Uragan costs hundreds of thousands, for example — and your country can not afford them. Not with oil below $40. Heck, you are willing to barter tanks for some bananas already!

Not nearly as much as world war II and that proved pretty survivable...

Yeah, sure. Only the loser — Germany — "survived" it much better than the winner for some reason.

Serbia gets picked on just because it's too Orthodox for someone tastes

Yeah, it was Orthodox Christianity, that made Milosevic a war-criminal, sure. Dugin much?

Syria gets picked on because it is ruled by a more or less secular(by local standards) socialist party

Syria is ruled by an asshole and a son of an asshole. A Russian — used to knowing the election-results before the poll — would not understand.

But we weren't discussing why you are fighting so many wars. The point is, these fights bankrupt you and the space program is just another thing to suffer from it.

NATO keeps maintaining occupation zone in Ukraine

Hilarious. Only Russians zombified by Kremlin TV would make claims of NATO "occupying" Ukraine while it is their own military that is doing the occupation. The only parts of Ukraine currently occupied by a foreign invader are Crimea, and pieces of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Has Russia joined NATO, while I was not watching?

Right Sector is a splinter of Svoboda party. And Svoboda have 8 cabinet positions right now: ministry of defense, prosecutor-general, lots of SNBO members, etc. And while Jarosh got 1%, Lyashko got 12.5% and Tyahnybok got another 2%.

And why should we wait for the crimes? Jarosh clearly states that Ukraine is for Ukrainians. Here's his direct quote: http://lenta.ru/articles/2014/... - "Russian speaking citizens should leave Ukraine, if they don't like it here"

Sorry, but that is nationalism that should result in immediate expulsion from politics in any self-respecting state. No arguments. No questions.

Is there even a reason why Russian-leaning regions should remain in Ukraine? Clearly, Ukrainians disdain 'vatniks' and 'Colorado bugs' from the East. And East also thinks that all of the Western Ukraine are fascist swine.

No. But it's ok to prosecute them for barging into a private church, interrupting a service and performing risque acts. In fact, they would have been prosecuted for the same acts in the US.

Let me give you another good example of this idiocy. The current "NGO scandal" where western media actively claims that Russian authorities are evicting an important NGO that is innocent of any wrongdoing. Interestingly, there are little if any videos of the case in western media outlets.

Russian lenta.ru on the other hand has a nice video of the event here http://lenta.ru/video/2013/06/23/zaprava/

Some pearls:
00:15. Woman in the office screaming "Aaaa, blackmail, help". The man carefully walks away saying "don't kill me, don't kill me" humorously. When camera pans to face her, she smiles, slightly embarrassed and tells cameraman "piss off".
1:32. Men and women surround and hold down the police woman guarding the window by hands. She shows exceptional patience. She clearly tolerates an older woman holding her other hand against her and telling to the camera "look I'm holding her down", and only when two women basically hold her down by hands and she repeatedly tells them to get their hands off her, she struggles to break free.
2:51. Fat middle aged woman (who claims to be the lawyer of the group) pushing into the young police officer blocking her path, then screaming "get your hands off my ass". Fun fact: both policeman's hands are visible on the video and none are on her ass.
3:48. Russian omon (special police forces) are on scene blocking the door. The man pushes the camera in their face. Omon guy asks "what are you standing here for?". Cameraman answers "I'm standing here to prevent raiding and capture". Omon guy with open sarcasm: "That is a correct thing to do. I think you're doing the right thing. Hooligans should be punished. We'll prevent everything together in a moment".
3:57. "Mayor candidate" that entered the premises earlier to talk with authorities is still inside, but he seems to be agitating the mob outside though the window. Police grabs him and throws him and his companion out. Companion screams "help, they're murdering me" as he's thrown out on the street. On the street he shouts "they were beating me". No signs of any kind of beating on him, other then him being thrown out.
4:34. Guy on camera asks the "mayor candidate": "where did they beat you"? He answers: "in the neck... and feet" (the spots where they grabbed him when they were throwing him out on camera a few moments ago).
5:13. Some high ranked white collar officials are leaving the premises. Mob chants "fascists" and some random guy goes after them screaming "this guy was beating people up". Then he starts chasing a police officer leaving the scene screaming "you were beating people" and then tries to... steal police officers hat off his head. That almost ends in a fist fight but another police officer pulls his colleague out of it as he gets his hat back
5:42. Plainclothes officers arrest the elderly man who was screaming about being beaten when he was ejected before the mayor candidate. Police officers audibly states the reason for arrest: "for provocation". Mob tries to stop the police car from leaving.
Camera switches to police officer who is apparently in a leadership position (and was seen earlier during the day watching the entire event from a vantage point about ten meters away from the mob) calmly talking on the phone while smoking: "About 40-30 people, they can throw themselves at cars... No the department people are still inside... No we threw all (demonstrators) out... Yes, let Omon stay there till morning".

Cherry on top:

0:00 "We are the owners of this property as a department of Moscow city's building ownership department. We are here to evict people from this property as they are here illegally".
0:22 Apparent head of the NGO says to the same man "so let's just sign a new lease", to which the city employee calmly answers "le

Update on lenta.ru 30 minutes ago:
http://lenta.ru/news/2013/02/15/muchmore/

According to RIA novosti news agency:
950 people wounded to some degree. Of these:
524 needed medical assistance
34 adults and 12 children hospitalized
2 people had to be put in intensive care

Most damage apparently came from shards of shattered glass wounding people.

Other set of figures is from federal government and that one specifies:
571 wounded to some degree
758 asked for medical assistance

It's also stated that they already found remains of one of the pieces in a local lake where meteorite punched through the ice and left shards on the site.

The apparent crash site (or maybe one of several, not clear if there were several sizeable fragments) is in a nearby lake, creating a 6 meter hole in ice. Picture at a news site. The site is under control of Russian authorities and a scientific group is due to arrive tomorrow to study the meteorite.

Socialism in USSR lacked the will to live. It was not energetic enough to compete on the international scene. Messages from abroad, with pictures of NYC city streets paved with gold, were not helpful.

Many problems could be prevented by stopping Gorbachev (you may want to follow this link.) There would be no Chechnya, for example.

In other words, the path to a Star Trek replicator goes through Communism, and not the other way around.

The path to any sane society goes through people who are moral. This is something that many societies lack. The US society is one of the worst in this respect, but the modern Russian society is also far from being healthy. Amoral people cannot build anything - and they don't; their domain is theft, consumption and destruction. Who builds things these days? Chinese, because they are honest workers.

Dymovsky was detained for making threats against the investigators, as they say. There's a criminal case opened against him, they suppose he stole 1,000 USD of governmental money while serving as a cop. Whether he did it or not, it's nothing too serious to be concerned much about him. Read in Russian: http://lenta.ru/news/2010/01/22/appregend/ Given the broad Russian fan-club of Dymovsky, no wonder the story appeared at SlashDot.

I'm so sick of your pro-chechen propaganda. Oh yeah, evil Putin's militia kills history teachers. Do you seriously believe this crap? Just think one minute why Putin would ever need it. On the other hand, chechens and other "oppressed" minorities commit murders and other lesser crimes even in Moscow and are being set free on regular basis.

take this
http://www.lenta.ru/articles/2009/04/27/race/
(in short: chechens drive several cars on Moscow central streets, firing traumatic guns at random people and cars, seized and was releazed with no charge)

or this
http://pioneer-lj.livejournal.com/1221802.html
(in short: chechens kill some russians, the police doesn't interfere, people create meeting to make the police arrest the killers, was severely suppressed. The chechen criminals are not affected)

Both articles in Russian.

and so on, and so on...

Posting anonimously because you are brainwashed by anti-putin propaganda and unlikely to even check the facts. I myself don't like Putin or Medvedev but for exactly opposite reason than you: chechens are killing russians and Putin doesn't do anything to make it stop.

The rademark institution said that the smiley is an integral part of the "Superfone" logo, is not a trademark in and of itself, and is in fact incapable of being one.

Sorry to ruin everybody's party, but here is a source for those who can read Russian or are awesome enough for Babelfish.

BP which runs the pipeline is not aware of any damage done to it. They've said the pipeline stopped working 6th Aug but only because of technical glitches which are completely unrelated to the war. There's some coverage here, if you can read Russian: http://lenta.ru/news/2008/08/10/bp/ (they reference AFP, however I was unable to find the actual reference)

In other news Iran is dealing with Russia to buy long range surface-to-air missile systems. http://www.lenta.ru/news/2008/02/01/iran/

Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Russia

"The group includes both left and right-wing opposition leaders as well as mainstream liberals such as former world chess champion and United Civil Front leader _Garry_ _Kasparov_, former Prime Minister of Russia and People Democratic Union leader Mikhail Kasyanov and Russian Republic Party leader Vladimir Ryzhkov, _as_ _well_ _as_ _the_ _National_ _Bolshevik_ _Party_ _with_ _its_ _leader_ _Eduard_ _Limonov_ and far-left Vanguard of RedYouth."

There's also a good photo: http://duma.lenta.ru/news/2007/12/02/others/ - Kasparov is on the left and Limonov is on the right. It shows Kasparov and Limonov putting corrupted (with several marked candidates) voting papers in a ballot box.

I live in Russia, the association of Kasparov and NBP is very well-known and alienated a lot of Kasparov's supporters.

I find it funny that all of us are so into this story and no one has bothered to verify it. The guy claims he heard the news on TV and decided to translate it for us. The thing is that if you speak Russian, and check out the TV channels, or the Russian news agencies - none of them mentions such a case. For instance, http://lenta.ru/internet/ is silent about it.

I must say this was a job well done by this bogus artist, he managed to spawn a classic slashdot dispute with many insightful posts, bravo! Well, maybe this will make spammers feel a bit uncomfortable...

Morale of the story: 10 thousand lemmings can be wrong.

Yes, vandalized:
http://pix.lenta.ru/news/2007/01/17/monuments/pict ure.jpg
http://pix.lenta.ru/articles/2007/04/05/monument/p icture.jpg

Yes, vandalized:
http://pix.lenta.ru/news/2007/01/17/monuments/pict ure.jpg
http://pix.lenta.ru/articles/2007/04/05/monument/p icture.jpg

Part of the story is the other participants in the opposition movement. Despite his apparent popularity in the West, Kasparov's participation alone probably would not have caused the permits to be denied.

A gallery of news photos from the event may help to understand the story better. I am not going to try explaining the backgrounds of all the opposition groups, but one of them is called "national-bolsheviks" and even a quick glance at their symbols may suggest that the West would not want the leaders of this movement to rule in Russia. Some "national-bolshevik" events have turned violent in the past, so the Russian Federal and Moscow City governments may have a legitimate security concern when considering the location and type of these events.

In this case, the authorities actually did allow the opposition meeting on one of squares in Moscow, but not the preceding march starting from a different square. So there was no total ban, but the opposition did not get everything they wanted. The response of Western governments to the anti-globalization marches may be a reasonable analogy. I am not saying that there is no concern over democracy in Russia in general, but in this specific event both sides have contributed to the outcome.

For those who cannot read the captions in Russian, these are pictures of Kasparov from the march.

Part of the story is the other participants in the opposition movement. Despite his apparent popularity in the West, Kasparov's participation alone probably would not have caused the permits to be denied.

A gallery of news photos from the event may help to understand the story better. I am not going to try explaining the backgrounds of all the opposition groups, but one of them is called "national-bolsheviks" and even a quick glance at their symbols may suggest that the West would not want the leaders of this movement to rule in Russia. Some "national-bolshevik" events have turned violent in the past, so the Russian Federal and Moscow City governments may have a legitimate security concern when considering the location and type of these events.

In this case, the authorities actually did allow the opposition meeting on one of squares in Moscow, but not the preceding march starting from a different square. So there was no total ban, but the opposition did not get everything they wanted. The response of Western governments to the anti-globalization marches may be a reasonable analogy. I am not saying that there is no concern over democracy in Russia in general, but in this specific event both sides have contributed to the outcome.

For those who cannot read the captions in Russian, these are pictures of Kasparov from the march.

Part of the story is the other participants in the opposition movement. Despite his apparent popularity in the West, Kasparov's participation alone probably would not have caused the permits to be denied.

A gallery of news photos from the event may help to understand the story better. I am not going to try explaining the backgrounds of all the opposition groups, but one of them is called "national-bolsheviks" and even a quick glance at their symbols may suggest that the West would not want the leaders of this movement to rule in Russia. Some "national-bolshevik" events have turned violent in the past, so the Russian Federal and Moscow City governments may have a legitimate security concern when considering the location and type of these events.

In this case, the authorities actually did allow the opposition meeting on one of squares in Moscow, but not the preceding march starting from a different square. So there was no total ban, but the opposition did not get everything they wanted. The response of Western governments to the anti-globalization marches may be a reasonable analogy. I am not saying that there is no concern over democracy in Russia in general, but in this specific event both sides have contributed to the outcome.

For those who cannot read the captions in Russian, these are pictures of Kasparov from the march.

Part of the story is the other participants in the opposition movement. Despite his apparent popularity in the West, Kasparov's participation alone probably would not have caused the permits to be denied.

A gallery of news photos from the event may help to understand the story better. I am not going to try explaining the backgrounds of all the opposition groups, but one of them is called "national-bolsheviks" and even a quick glance at their symbols may suggest that the West would not want the leaders of this movement to rule in Russia. Some "national-bolshevik" events have turned violent in the past, so the Russian Federal and Moscow City governments may have a legitimate security concern when considering the location and type of these events.

In this case, the authorities actually did allow the opposition meeting on one of squares in Moscow, but not the preceding march starting from a different square. So there was no total ban, but the opposition did not get everything they wanted. The response of Western governments to the anti-globalization marches may be a reasonable analogy. I am not saying that there is no concern over democracy in Russia in general, but in this specific event both sides have contributed to the outcome.

For those who cannot read the captions in Russian, these are pictures of Kasparov from the march.

Part of the story is the other participants in the opposition movement. Despite his apparent popularity in the West, Kasparov's participation alone probably would not have caused the permits to be denied.

A gallery of news photos from the event may help to understand the story better. I am not going to try explaining the backgrounds of all the opposition groups, but one of them is called "national-bolsheviks" and even a quick glance at their symbols may suggest that the West would not want the leaders of this movement to rule in Russia. Some "national-bolshevik" events have turned violent in the past, so the Russian Federal and Moscow City governments may have a legitimate security concern when considering the location and type of these events.

In this case, the authorities actually did allow the opposition meeting on one of squares in Moscow, but not the preceding march starting from a different square. So there was no total ban, but the opposition did not get everything they wanted. The response of Western governments to the anti-globalization marches may be a reasonable analogy. I am not saying that there is no concern over democracy in Russia in general, but in this specific event both sides have contributed to the outcome.

For those who cannot read the captions in Russian, these are pictures of Kasparov from the march.

Part of the story is the other participants in the opposition movement. Despite his apparent popularity in the West, Kasparov's participation alone probably would not have caused the permits to be denied.

A gallery of news photos from the event may help to understand the story better. I am not going to try explaining the backgrounds of all the opposition groups, but one of them is called "national-bolsheviks" and even a quick glance at their symbols may suggest that the West would not want the leaders of this movement to rule in Russia. Some "national-bolshevik" events have turned violent in the past, so the Russian Federal and Moscow City governments may have a legitimate security concern when considering the location and type of these events.

In this case, the authorities actually did allow the opposition meeting on one of squares in Moscow, but not the preceding march starting from a different square. So there was no total ban, but the opposition did not get everything they wanted. The response of Western governments to the anti-globalization marches may be a reasonable analogy. I am not saying that there is no concern over democracy in Russia in general, but in this specific event both sides have contributed to the outcome.

For those who cannot read the captions in Russian, these are pictures of Kasparov from the march.

Part of the story is the other participants in the opposition movement. Despite his apparent popularity in the West, Kasparov's participation alone probably would not have caused the permits to be denied.

A gallery of news photos from the event may help to understand the story better. I am not going to try explaining the backgrounds of all the opposition groups, but one of them is called "national-bolsheviks" and even a quick glance at their symbols may suggest that the West would not want the leaders of this movement to rule in Russia. Some "national-bolshevik" events have turned violent in the past, so the Russian Federal and Moscow City governments may have a legitimate security concern when considering the location and type of these events.

In this case, the authorities actually did allow the opposition meeting on one of squares in Moscow, but not the preceding march starting from a different square. So there was no total ban, but the opposition did not get everything they wanted. The response of Western governments to the anti-globalization marches may be a reasonable analogy. I am not saying that there is no concern over democracy in Russia in general, but in this specific event both sides have contributed to the outcome.

For those who cannot read the captions in Russian, these are pictures of Kasparov from the march.

Dirty Russians commies license everything:
http://www.lenta.ru/info/license.htm
Russians are behind all the problems in the Middle East because they are a bunch of antisemitic latent nazis. When we will understand that they are enemies of the free world?

• http://www.lenta.ru/info/license.htm
• http://www.rbc.ru/
• http://www.mail.ru/
• http://www.gazeta.ru/
• ...

• http://www.livejournal.com/ which has Russian-speaking abuse team controlled by a Russian company
• http://www.liveinternet.ru/
• ...

Nice FUD job though. Gotta get those ad impressions going.

Microsoft's asking for RUR 266000, i.e. USD 8886 according to this. http://lenta.ru/story/ponosoff/. An important nuance: it's a small village school, which would probably not have a budget for this. But I think in any case, they should use Linux.

According to the police, he acquinted three women in a night club and invited them to his flat. The women mixed in a strong dormitive medication into wine ("Clofeline", traditionally ised in such scenarios by the crime) and, when the Mr. Kushnir went asleep, opened the door to accomplices. Unfurtunately, the dose of dormitive was not sufficient. Mr. Kushnir woke up and a fight ensued, during which he was beaten to death. A laptop, money and credit cards are missing from his flat. Also an underdress were left by one of the women in hurry. This is the only version the Police is considering now.

The article also says his company exists since 2000 and has had an anuual turnaround of mere $100,000-120,000. Its spamming activity was so visible that it got under investigation by the government, but no action was made against it due to the lack of aplicable laws. To avoid being charged in Russia, the company sent all its spams via an offshore company located (guess where!!!) in the USA. It also says the quality of language education the company has offered is reported to be quite low, with a high turnover of teachers (because they stop paying salary to everyone after a couple first months of employment) and no coherent education program. It only stayed afloat because of endless spamming.

... is about 43 mln $
according to
http://www.lenta.ru/news/2005/04/07/mks/
for 3 people.

And yes, it is POKET CAEHC!

I guess those georgian (or perhaps chechen) snipers used August/14 as an idea for their attacks. Or did they wait until their American brothers will do the job first?

So what was the reason of wire cuts in Ohio again? No sniper bullets found around yet? No traces of bullet on broken isolators? Keep looking - you may find some more food for your brains.

Briefly, Russians wnat to open Postal Service Station on ISS to make some money in order to help their poor space budget.

According to this article in Russian the thieves were caught on Tuesday. The fish is your friend.