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Post #2696546 That was not Stalin, it was Khrushev (himself coming from Ukraine) who did the Crimea transfer. Some say it was against the USSR laws, which is one of the reasons pro-Russian forces in Ukraine use ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Resurgence of the Russian military?	Aug 12 2008
Post #2696122 My personal thoughts are explained in my posts. As for what the people think... Well, I live in Eastern Ukraine. Most (as in ~70% or more) people here support Russia in this matter. I'm not sure w ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Resurgence of the Russian military?	Aug 11 2008
Post #2695802 The Russians might have been in the know of what's going to happen. It wasn't easy for Georgia to mass invasion troops without Russian intelligence knowing. So Russians were probably ready to depl ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Resurgence of the Russian military?	Aug 11 2008
Post #2695777 As for Russian troops going to Tbilisi: I don't think that will happen. But that doesn't mean Tbilisi will hold, either. There's an Abkhazian army in the area as well (plus some remains of S.Osset ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Breaking News: Russia launched a full-scale military invasion of Georgia	Aug 11 2008
Post #2693645 It may have something to do with missile sites, and some more with Kosovo for that matter. Russian forces were there (in Southern Ossetia, Abkhazia etc.) for many years already, but there was very ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Resurgence of the Russian military?	Aug 9 2008
Post #2692313 Yes, that's an interesting fact by itself: most people there have Russian passports, and not Georgian ones. So technically Russian military has every right to protect them as citizens of Russia.…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Resurgence of the Russian military?	Aug 8 2008
Post #2691857 Now it looks like Russian military units have entered the same region and driven Georgians back. Georgians report Russian aircraft bombed a base where US instructors were stationed... This all ma ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Resurgence of the Russian military?	Aug 8 2008
Post #2691752 Russian pride had apparently just taken a major hit. A few hours ago Georgian army with heavy equipment (as in strike aircraft, tanks and heavy artillery) had entered separatist Southern Osetia re ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Resurgence of the Russian military?	Aug 8 2008
Post #2688902 They're the type of country that will walk all over you if they know that you'll just sit back and do nothing about it Well, which country doesn't fit that description? That's just how politics w ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Resurgence of the Russian military?	Aug 6 2008
Post #2668385 I don't see much similarity to Gallipoli campaign. Gallipoli had a strategic importance (not the Gallipoli itself, but the Turkish capital a way to which it could open) - if the Turks were driven ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Is Iraq a modern day Gallipoli ?	Jul 22 2008
Post #2518428 That's the rules of the world politics - if you can grab something and then hold it (and you see clear advantages of doing so), you do it. Whether you are a democracy, monarchy, Soviet-style count ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	The Truth about Tibet	Apr 15 2008
Post #2518003 Computer simulation shows that a single F-22 Raptor could take out ten F-15 fighters in "warm-up" mode, and take out one hundred F-15 fighters in "heat" mode, with abosolutely no dogfights involve ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Who OWN the skies?	Apr 14 2008
Post #2517817 Wouldn't a fully democratic China have elected representatives of the people? ...I can't imagine that Chinese people in general are so determined to completely wipe out any distinctive Tibetan cul ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	The Truth about Tibet	Apr 14 2008
Post #2502307 Do you mean this?…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Who changed my avetar	Apr 1 2008
Post #2480805 -ich in that case refers to the fact that person is someone's child. Anatolievich = son of Anatoliy. A common Russian habit: if you want to name someone politely, you use name + father's name, lik ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Putin the Magnificent	Mar 12 2008
Post #2480366 Bear's place would be 'Medvedevo' (as in village name). Bear's village can also be 'Medvedevka'. And yes, someone from there can be called Medvedev. Or it just may be that during times long gone, ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Putin the Magnificent	Mar 12 2008
Post #2469013 They don't say how many old USSR-built missiles will be decomissioned this same year. I'd expect that number to be much higher that 11, given the fact yearly missile production in USSR was closer ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	President Putin's new shot across the bows?	Feb 29 2008
Post #2462962 Well, it's quite a simple test to shoot down your own satellite (the one orbit of which you know precisely), which is even inactive (and so cannot use its engines to evade the missile). Maybe it's ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Duck, or when you've read this shoot yourself	Feb 24 2008
Post #2455764 Anti-sat missiles are very dangerous for US military (and any modern military in general). Most of new 'precise' weapons depend on GPS or some other satellite positioning system (like Russian GLON ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Duck, or when you've read this shoot yourself	Feb 19 2008
Post #2454394 Good luck to the EU effort, but I somehow don't think this 'democracy building' task will go as planned. We'll probably see the direction things go in in a couple of months (after the new Kosovo a ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Kosovan parliament declares independence	Feb 18 2008
Post #2437197 Who or what decided where the afghan borders are supposed to be anyway? Probably British Empire and Imperial Russia. The land which is now called Afghanistan separated British India from (quess w ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Fair Weather Allies	Feb 3 2008
Post #2419668 How hard this will hit the world depends on how much the dollar is used. If many countries continue to keep a significant part of their reserve funds in dollars, then any US problems will hit them ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Bailing Out The U.S. Economy	Jan 20 2008
Post #2355218 Does anybody here with a Russian connection know the Erast Fandorin mysteries? Is the hype justified? Well, the movies are good. Haven't read the books yet though. He's basically an agent workin ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Putin the Magnificent	Dec 8 2007
Post #2354212 people being incarcerated for decades because a neighbor with a grudge to settle fingered them as "terrorists." This reminds me a bit of some other country and other time, namely USSR in 1930s. R ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Held without Charge	Dec 7 2007
Post #2230937 I had heard of the Estonian business, but not the others. The Cossacks story is too good to be true! Tell me you're kidding. I'd wish this to be kidding (the existance of that memorial part, not ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Ban the Swastika?	Sep 5 2007
Post #2227992 now children are being fed somewhat different information at schools and via media and have some problems answering simple questions about that war, like who started it, what it was all about and ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Ban the Swastika?	Sep 4 2007
Post #2226649 The Slavs missed their chance of attention long ago. After the war, USSR (which had most of the Slavs living on its territiry) was busy preparing for the then-starting Cold War, so little info wen ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Ban the Swastika?	Sep 3 2007
Post #2200691 That video was discussed a lot on Russian sites. General conclusion was that the video part is real, but the sounds of it (including shouts by the "executors" and the gunshot) are collected from d ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	The Worst American?	Aug 16 2007
Post #2196312 We don't have many examples of other sentient races to compare our stupidity to (in fact I don't know of any), so we can hardly be "the most stupid" :) As for the Industrial Revolution, wasn't it ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	stupidity	Aug 13 2007
Post #2192822 It better not become a future of international policy, for this only makes "third world" countries want to get some WMDs for defence. Next time US invades some "axis of evil" part, they may alread ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Intervention in a Cruel World: What are the rules?	Aug 10 2007
Post #2190394 Where politicians aren't picked by the media which is controlled by a handfull of corporations and are then controlled with money from special interests That would be quite hard to find anywhere ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Looking to emigrate...but where?	Aug 9 2007
Post #2179018 Even if DC grid may have a lover transmission loss, it'll have some expensive DC/AC converters at the ends of line (since most of that energy is generated by AC generators and used by AC drives) w ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Cool ideas in a warm world	Aug 1 2007
Post #2178660 ...explain this to me. I am under the impression (which may be wrong) that capitalism in the US was more "unfettered" in the late 19th and very early 20th centuries than it is now. Yet out of that ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Is Capitalism really compatible with Democracy?	Aug 1 2007
Post #2150797 It is just a pity that President Putin cannot have a third term as he is needed to give Russia it's self esteem back, it's pride and to counter a Western policy that is out of kilter. Well, isn't ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Putin the Magnificent	Jul 16 2007
Post #2143723 Well, in Ukraine (and probably the rest of exUSSR countries) the train is still the cheapest way of intercity travel. And quite comfortable compared to a bus, too. And since we have such a large r ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Popularity of train travel (well in the UK anyway)	Jul 12 2007
Post #2066808 Ah, well. They tried. I recall Cuba in 1962. Wasn't that in response to US missiles being placed in Turkey? US puts missiles near Soviet border, USSR starts looking for a way to do the same and ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Russia - Quo Vadis	May 29 2007
Post #2034868 I think this is more like "if you are a head of an EU state, you should behave accordingly and NOT do any of the aforementioned things". Or maybe "when such things come from an EU member, they hav ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Bronze soldier in Estonia	May 8 2007
Post #2027120 The anti-missile system isn't comparable to arms sales for some more reasons. For example, once the arms are delivered, they are a property of the country which bought them and are fully controlle ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	What is the US at playing at now- dangerous stuff??	May 2 2007
Post #1850169 Do the characters have to be English? If not, how about using Chinese (or Japanese)? You'll be able to say a lot with just 160 characters of those languages (not that I know them, though :) ).…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	alien txts	Dec 12 2006
Post #1848174 ... the sorry state of social order which existed in the former "Eastern Block" was known to us here in the "West" as Communism. You may be surprised, but to us here in the "former Eastern Bloc ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Fair Weather Allies	Dec 9 2006
Post #1846916 Hate to disagree too, but no-one declared the communism as built. no communist party (=govt. at that time) in any of eastern state including USSR stated that there was communism in there. real soc ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Fair Weather Allies	Dec 8 2006
Post #1804104 I would prefer to have another dream: ... Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace... ... ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Imperial Pretensions and the End of Empire: The Limitations of American Power	Nov 1 2006
Post #1792072 KOT 57, not everyone here understands Russian, and the comments on the picture are written in it. For everyone else, the picture linked to by the post above explains how to properly position Russ ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	US & Russia Military decorations-propensity of overdone?	Oct 23 2006
Post #1787596 ...People deserve better. Namely, cars... That's wrong in my view. If those cars are electric or otherwise 'clean', then maybe yes, but not the current cars. I heard the smog is already a proble ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Trams are great	Oct 20 2006
Post #1783092 Trams are also quite common in the former USSR. Some lines had closed down in recent years, but most of them remain. What I wouldn't call them is modern, though. If the city is large enough (like ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Trams are great	Oct 17 2006
Post #1757385 Stalin dies in an attempted bank robbery in Baku. What now? Stalin himself had a saying that translates roughly as "no one is irreplaceable". Circumstances demanded for a strong leader, someone w ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Could the Russian Revolution been avoided or defeated?	Sep 29 2006
Post #1756210 If we go back further, we can see that most of the immediate causes of revolution were created by the World War and less-than-spectacular Russian performance in it (not that other countries did mu ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Could the Russian Revolution been avoided or defeated?	Sep 28 2006
Post #1754858 Avoided - no. Defeated - maybe. Bolsheviks at first had no real military power, and there were many other factions (Bolsheviks just proved to be the best organized ones). That is what forced the p ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	Could the Russian Revolution been avoided or defeated?	Sep 27 2006
Post #1697387 The country in Asia is probably Korea, that seems to be the first post-WW2 Asian conflict involving the USA. As for atomics, how many bombs there were in the US by 1949? I suspect not that many. ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	US & Russia Military decorations-propensity of overdone?	Aug 16 2006
Post #1696305 "Hero of the Soviet Union" was the highest military award (also given to civilians for heroic deeds, not counting Brezhnev who awarded it to himself many times), it wasn't given for what you descr ...…	yuritch	Debates & Discussions	US & Russia Military decorations-propensity of overdone?	Aug 15 2006

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