"Rodina" sounds too pompous for a phrase like "Mother Russia has always been ruled by an iron fist". It's unbelievable that he used that word; if you speak Russian, you won't argue. "Mother Russia" sounds more like something an English speaker would make up.
> If you write a history book I will buy it.
A book by an author who confuses socialism with communism and makes up numbers to support his point? Why would you want to buy it?
There is a difference between "I'd say odds are on that Russia" and claiming that Russia did it. Odds are not that great: many powers in Ukraine itself could benefit, including the then President Kuchma (who is suspected of ordering to kill the opposition journalist Georgiy Gongadze), criminalized businessmen like Rinat Akhmetov who wanted the allegedly corrupt government to stay, etc etc.
Where did you guys get the idea that Russia poisoned Yushchenko? It did not, at least it's never been proven by anyone. In the Ukraine, the investigation of this crime has all but frozen -- almost as if the country nationalist leaders know something about it that makes it better to keep it like that. The investigators found nothing, zilch, at least publicly. The press seems to have forgotten about it. There are persistent rumors that Ukraine's own SBU (Ukrainian Security Service) was involved.
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Continent? Then rejoice: a huge and the most important chunk of Russia is located in Europe!
"Rodina" sounds too pompous for a phrase like "Mother Russia has always been ruled by an iron fist". It's unbelievable that he used that word; if you speak Russian, you won't argue. "Mother Russia" sounds more like something an English speaker would make up.
There is no such expression as "Mother Russia" in Russian.
> If you write a history book I will buy it. A book by an author who confuses socialism with communism and makes up numbers to support his point? Why would you want to buy it?
There is a difference between "I'd say odds are on that Russia" and claiming that Russia did it. Odds are not that great: many powers in Ukraine itself could benefit, including the then President Kuchma (who is suspected of ordering to kill the opposition journalist Georgiy Gongadze), criminalized businessmen like Rinat Akhmetov who wanted the allegedly corrupt government to stay, etc etc.
Where did you guys get the idea that Russia poisoned Yushchenko? It did not, at least it's never been proven by anyone. In the Ukraine, the investigation of this crime has all but frozen -- almost as if the country nationalist leaders know something about it that makes it better to keep it like that. The investigators found nothing, zilch, at least publicly. The press seems to have forgotten about it. There are persistent rumors that Ukraine's own SBU (Ukrainian Security Service) was involved.
It would be rather strange for Russia to build statues of Nazi collaborators, who those deported Estonians were, don't you think?
No, it was Estonians who poisoned Yushchenko. At least there's as much proof. Please try to refrain from witch-hunting.