Russia General Megathread

[LastVoter]

http://ttolk.ru/?p=10617
All but 3 of the 200 wealthiest man in Russia stole their way to the top.

[LastVoter]

http://ttolk.ru/?p=10617
All but 3 of the 200 wealthiest man in Russia stole their way to the top.

OK. First I saw the title, "Jews and Ukrainians are movers of capitalism", which struck me as somewhat racist, being an Ashkenazi whose parents were born in Kiev. Then I scrolled down and saw this photo: http://ttolk.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2.jpg

What the fuсk?

Banana Republic? The ethnicity break down is really a pointless excercise and you could say that it's hard to determine if the author is actually racist((s)he definitely gives that vibe, but I didn't see any outright racist statements in there after I skimmed the article), but I just wanted to point out how illegitimate the wealth of the oligarchs is in Russia, which is pretty important when discussing Russia. You would probably get similar results in US, but with slightly more people getting rich fairly and a few of the billionaires inheriting their parents fortunes.

[LastVoter]

Russia is very anti-semitic even now.
Russian Foreign Ministry supports "Palestine" every way they can.

Russia is more anti-muslim/Middle Eastern/Central Asian than it is anti-semitic. Anti-Ukrainian is probably the biggest sentiment though.

[LastVoter]

This thread needs an urgent dose of ag.

Did I say something that's incorrect? I just thought that I should put the oligarchs on the first page since that's what defines politics today in Russia.

[LastVoter]

http://rusnovosti.ru/news/199728/
Dagir Hasavov had left Russia.

off-topic: Some of the links there are disturbing.  A 6-legged kid born from inbreeding - yellow press.

[LastVoter]

Russia is very anti-semitic even now.
Russian Foreign Ministry supports "Palestine" every way they can.

Russia is more anti-muslim/Middle Eastern/Central Asian than it is anti-semitic. Anti-Ukrainian is probably the biggest sentiment though.

Oh, yeah, "luchshe byt' zhidom, chem khokhlom" )

Though, do you know the old joke about a Ukrainian's reaction to the "Bey zhidov - spasaj Rossiju" poster?

No I don't remember, but google says this "идея хороша... да цель безумна".

[LastVoter]

ag are you an "old" btw(in American sense)? Also do you know who are olds and youngs in Russia today? I am really dissapointed at the fact that somewhat youngs(families with young kids) started going to church more often now, but I guess that's to be expected. When I was growing up there was a pretty deep divide between really olds and everyone else, because the olds would hang out on lavochkas and quarrel while consuming sunflower seeds and obviously vote communist. I'd be interested to know about the more nuanced generational differences in Russia that I couldn't observe as a kid.

[LastVoter]

Well now the great leader has been sworn in...
BUMP

[LastVoter]

http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2012/05/14/n_2341397.shtml
Looks like he didn't meet the vote quota for the Putin, so he got sacked.

[LastVoter]

http://akudrin.ru/upload/iblock/Society-and-gov_240512.pdf

[LastVoter]

Quite a funny picture, seeing white and red in opposition.
Also this guy got kicked out, more proof of the civil war in just russia.

[LastVoter]

http://echo.msk.ru/news/938964-echo.html