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It's funny. You can not even invent new nicknames.
404 is Ukraine in Russian language since 2014.
Speaking of 404 - Sahra Wagenknecht жжёт опять in German Bundestag, saying that Ukraine is a bankrupt country, where the wages are lower now than in African Ghana, and pointing the finger at the US as a culprit of it all...
I recently heard Ukrainians were going to Donbas clinics because the Ukrainian medical system is failing a d in many parts of the country does not exist. Unless you can pay of course.
Nonsense. Refugees from the occupied territories go to the liberated Donbass for medical treatment, because all qualified doctors left the occupied territories and the price of medicines is increased 3-5 times.
So what do you do if communists are becoming more popular than the likes of Ukrainian fascists. And speaking about "Putin's *****" - I guess Poroshenko doesn't score too well with women anywhere. Too fat , too drunk, too much of a slob. Now whose fault is that?
It's sad. Alexander Semenov, leader of the band "RABFAQ", died today. lenta.ru/news/2017/08/22/rabfak/
He knew how to make music, even from sh*t and sticks.
A good and clearly written article. Russia really doesn't need to confront anyone on the high seas because basically Russia doesn't need much when it comes to expansion. The Russian Navy is well tailored for its missions. I remember the cold war years and how the US strategists used to sweat bullets about the Soviet Akula class missile boats lurking under the arctic ice. A sensible and practical approach that cost the US billions to respond to and for no real gain. We would have never found those beasts hiding among the ice flows unless there was a collision with one.
Russia is taking the right course. Spending dimes and forcing the US to spend 1000s in return. What Russia needs to concentrate on in the future is the deterrence facing the Europeans. They;re a bloody lot, they value nothing above power and blind obedience to the US policies.
I do believe in my lifetime there will a conflict in eastern Europe. It will be instigated by the US/ NATO and a coalition of the obedient. America is becoming weaker and losing influence. There's no telling what US politicians will do as power wanes.
I've been hearing that there's been a lot of persecution/discrimination towards Protestants in Russia, particularly with Jehova Witness, but also others such as babtists, Pentecostals, Lutherens and even Catholics, and that this mainly stems from the huge influence the Orthodox Church has on the government. Is this true? Is Russia slowing turning into a theocracy like Iran is? Is this something that average Russians want? Is this something that the Orthodox Church wants? Also why won't the Russian Orthodox Church recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church? If the Serbs can have their own Church why not Ukraine?
I've been hearing that there's been a lot of persecution/discrimination towards Protestants in Russia, particularly with Jehova Witness, but also others such as babtists, Pentecostals, Lutherens and even Catholics, and that this mainly stems from the huge influence the Orthodox Church has on the government. Is this true? Is Russia slowing turning into a theocracy like Iran is? Is this something that average Russians want? Is this something that the Orthodox Church wants? Also why won't the Russian Orthodox Church recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church? If the Serbs can have their own Church why not Ukraine?
Yes, it's true.
It's not really about Russia "being a theocracy like Iran," (don't forget that Russia still hosts Islam as well, and has a "chief Mufti" lol,) but it's more about the "security of state."
Russian Orthodoxy is a historic trademark of Russians; their culture (for good or bad) is intertwined with this particular branch of Christianity, and current government leans on this church, while giving it support in return ( as it was in Tzarist Russia before 1917.)
Now religion is not as an *innocent* subject as it seems and most of the churches you list here - Baptist, Pentecostals and Jehovah Witness are American churches. Not only they have their own brand of Christianity (that contradicts some tenets of Russian Orthodox Church,) but they might serve as a host of anti-governmental activities in Russia. And that's what I think is REALLY behind the recent crackdown on foreign churches in Russia. The majority of Russians don't mind I think, because as I've said Orthodoxy is their national identification, as Catholicism is for Italians for example.
Now when it comes to Ukraine - it's all about the numerous attempts of Ukraine to go its separate way, which doesn't work very well with Church, since originally Russian Orthodoxy started in Kiev of course.
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And speaking about "Putin's *****" - I guess Poroshenko doesn't score too well with women anywhere. 
Too fat , too drunk, too much of a slob. Now whose fault is that? 