Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:What is your point, Signym? Didja ever notice how the Georgian alphabet is unique in the world: it is used only to write Georgian (and, occasionally, some minority languages of Georgia). It has no upper or lower case.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Didja ever notice how different ethnic groups have different name endings? . . . Georgian names end in -villi.
https://www.georgian-alphabet.com/en/alphabet.php
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/georgia/articles/16-incredible-facts
-about-the-languages-of-the-caucasus/
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Seven years behind bars in Russia for criticizing the death of children in Ukraine
Moscow councilor Alexei Gorinov is not the only politician to be targeted for questioning Putin’s ‘special operation.’ Under new laws, speaking out has become dangerous for everyone
Javier G. Cuesta, Moscow - Jul 26, 2022 - 11:42 EDT
Moscow opposition councilor Alexei Gorinov has just spent his 61st birthday in jail. His crime? To criticize the organization of an event for Children’s Day in light of the war in Ukraine.
“How we can be discussing a children’s drawing contest for Children’s Day when children are being killed every day?” he said at a filmed council meeting. “I can tell you that 100 minors have died in Ukraine, and other children have been orphaned. These are the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who participated in World War II.” This outspoken opinion on the war in March has led Gorinov to be sentenced this month to seven years behind bars.
Just days prior to the meeting held in Moscow’s Krasnoselsky district on March 17, a law had been passed stipulating prison sentences for any Russian “discrediting the Armed Forces” or “knowingly spreading false information.” This law was promptly used against several of the seven politicians who took part in that particular council meeting, all of whom are well-known political figures in Moscow: Gorinov is the first to be jailed under the new law; Elena Kotionochkina, the incumbent president, has fled the country but has a warrant out for her arrest; and opposition activist Ilia Yashin was taken into custody a week ago on account of a video he posted on his YouTube channel concerning the Bucha massacre last March in which 1,300 Ukrainian civilians were slaughtered, and is now looking at years behind bars. Only one councilwoman voted in favor of the children’s contest.
Gorinov was sentenced under Article 207.3 of the Russian Criminal Code, adopted on March 4 which allows for prison sentences of up to 15 years. According to the judge’s 26-page ruling, Gorinov and his colleague Kotionochkina, had misled Russians, triggering “anxiety and fear” about the “special military operation” in Ukraine, a crime driven by “political hatred, disdain, antipathy and aggressiveness towards the organs of power of the Russian Federation.”
The prosecution brought various pieces of evidence against Gorinov during the trial at the Meschhanski district court, including Defense Ministry war logs that defined the Russian action in Ukraine as a special military operation “and did not mention the death of children”; an article published by Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova entitled The Special Operation Is Not the Start of a War, But its Prevention; and the agreements signed by Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in Eastern Ukraine.
On March 17, while the Moscow district was discussing the children’s contest, the UN Human Rights Commission – of which Russia itself is a member – reported that at least 22 teenagers and 36 children had been killed during the offensive in Ukraine, “though the actual numbers are significantly higher.”
The video, which is still available on YouTube, shows Kotionochkina suggesting that her country is on its way to becoming “a fascist state” and proposing the modification of the contest along the lines of “children against the war in Ukraine.”
Gorinov can be seen adding, “I believe all efforts of [Russian] civil society should be aimed only at stopping the war and withdrawing Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine.” Their stance was met with the following response from the one district councilwoman to vote in favor of holding the contest in its original form: “You are obsessed!”
Following Gorinov’s conviction, more than two dozen well-known Russian lawyers and human rights activists published an open letter accusing the new post-invasion law of violating the Constitution. Specifically, they alleged that it fails to recognize ideological and political diversity as the
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You've gloated about firing people for not agreeing with you. You've watched the Left engage in getting people fired for years now and cheered it on. You've celebrated efforts of the current administration to get everyone fired who didn't take an experimental vaccination that didn't vaccinate anyone from anything.
Get fucked if you think anybody believes that you care about this, Second.
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Quote:I'm an engineer, 6ix. Nothing is about "caring" with me. That is not how engineering is done. I fired people for embezzlement, for stealing thousands of gallons of diesel fuel or power tools, for being incompetent at their work, for sexually harassing other employees. One was even fired for leaving a bulldozer in an empty storm water retention pond that was filling up. I had to get wet to save the machine before water got into the air filter inlet. That one really pissed me off when the guy who left the machine where he shouldn't would NOT go into the quickly filling pond to get it back out. What a worthless coward he was, afraid of being contaminated by dirty water.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You've gloated about firing people for not agreeing with you. You've watched the Left engage in getting people fired for years now and cheered it on. You've celebrated efforts of the current administration to get everyone fired who didn't take an experimental vaccination that didn't vaccinate anyone from anything.
Get fucked if you think anybody believes that you care about this, Second.
But none of that has anything to do with Putin jailing people who use the word 'war' instead of 'special military operation' or people who contradict Putin's false claims that Putin's military are NOT killing women, children and old men.
Putin's whole pattern of interacting with the material world is offensive to an engineer. As a matter of fact so is your pattern, 6ix. You're a crazy wussy, 6ix, same as the frequently unemployed, dishonest or deliberately misleading Trumptards I know in East Texas.
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Originally posted by second:
I'm an engineer, 6ix.
No. You aren't.
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Nothing is about "caring" with me.
Finally. It speaks the truth.
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Estonia’s prime minister has a message for the West: ‘Don’t worry about Putin’s feelings’
July 26, 2022
Sitting in her office in Stenbock House, a well-appointed neoclassical building in the heart of Tallinn’s medieval Old Town, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas wanted to discuss the last 80 years of European history. But she had only 20 minutes. Kallas was intent on sending a message to the rest of the world about yielding to Russian demands on Ukraine.
“I think a fundamental mistake was made after the Second World War,” she said, sitting beneath a painting of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments. “While the Nazi crimes were widely condemned, the communists’ crimes never were. So we see a strong revival of Stalinism right now in Russia. Seventy percent of Russians support Stalin, despite his having murdered 20 million people, despite the deportations, the prisons camps, war, everything. History books in Estonia were rewritten after communism, whereas Russians are still being taught the same history that we had to read during the Soviet period, which was total crap.”
Estonia has so far sent more than $270 million worth of military assistance to Ukraine, the equivalent of more than 30% of its annual defense budget. When considered alongside their humanitarian and financial assistance, the Estonians donated the equivalent of 0.81% of their gross domestic product to another nation at war, a staggering metric.
Kallas is keen to emphasize that security assistance is not charity. "I was asked in Parliament by our far-right party why we’re doing this," she told Yahoo News. "And I answered that Ukraine is literally fighting for us. When Russia is at war with them, they're not at war with us. And we have peace here."
Maintaining that peace is of existential necessity for Estonians, who share an uneasy 182-mile border with a revanchist power currently occupying 20% of Ukraine and threatening to permanently gobble up much, if not all, of that territory. Estonia itself was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 when Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler agreed to the mutual carve-up of Eastern Europe under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
Until 1991, Estonia remained under Soviet rule. Tens of thousands were killed, imprisoned or deported to Siberia. Among the deportees in 1949 was Kallas’s mother, just 6 months old at the time, who was dispatched in a cattle car along with Kallas’s grandmother to the Russian tundra and raised in exile until she was 10. As Kallas pointed out, thousands of Ukrainian civilians have died, millions have been displaced, including as many as 1.6 million Ukrainians who had been deported to Russia.
In 2004, Estonia joined the European Union and NATO to be firmly in the Western camp and insusceptible to a recurrence of past victimhood — the very ambition that Ukrainians are dying on their native soil to achieve.
Kallas’s sense of history is inextricably wedded to her own genealogy; her family’s suffering can be read in every bullet and flak jacket her government has shipped to Ukraine.
More at https://news.yahoo.com/estonias-prime-minister-has-a-message-for-the-w
est-dont-worry-about-putins-feelings-223606146.html
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Originally posted by second:
Estonia’s prime minister has a message for the West: ‘Don’t worry about Putin’s feelings’
Oh, I can assure you prime minister of a country that 99.9% of American's couldn't even point out on a map without using their smartphone, one of the only things the American People give a shit less about than Ukraine is Putin's feelings.
We loved your country's brief cameo in Encino Man.
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From our analysis, it becomes clear: business retreats and sanctions are catastrophically crippling the Russian economy.
https://jabberwocking.com/how-long-can-the-russian-economy-hold-out-am
id-crippling-sanctions/
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Yeah. Sure buddy.
The fuckin' EU is destroying itself.
https://news.yahoo.com/russia-doing-better-expected-despite-130708118.
html
Good riddance.
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Quote:That is as stupid as saying that Ukraine has caused $750 billion in property damage to itself. All that money wasted because Ukraine didn't foresee the economic advantages of surrendering on Day 1 of Putin's invasion. All that money wasted because the nations now in the EU and NATO didn't surrender to the Soviet Union in 1945. All of Europe could now have the peace, happiness, and vibrant economy of North Korea if only the European leaders of 1945 had resigned after appointing Stalin as the new leader of their countries.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. Sure buddy.
The fuckin' EU is destroying itself.
Ukraine’s prime minister says rebuilding will cost $750 billion.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220715233323/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/07/05/world/europe/ukraines-prime-minister-says-rebuilding-will-cost-750-billion.html
https://twitter.com/Denys_Shmyhal/status/1543961068300550144
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